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You're lucky when you can adapt your old skills to use in new ones.

Wayne,



I did the same with computers and music.

It's survival of the fittest, or in other words, adaptability.

As the world changes, those who can make the changes survive.

I have a friend who plays trumpet. Refused to play anything but Dixieland and standards. Doesn't want to work with computers or backing tracks. But the people who grew up listening to Dixieland and Sinatra are no longer a good market. To many are dead and the ones still alive don't spend a lot of money. My friend is now teaching school and playing Dixieland or Standards a couple of times per month.

He was one of the people who when I started messing with my Atari/ST computer told me that I was putting musicians out of work with that machine. I told him I was putting a musician to work, me!

Musicians work is not the same as it was when I was on the road. But neither is typesetting. Adapt and survive or face another alternative.

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