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Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.

ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s because being an astronaut is an actual job you commit to or you won’t get to do your job. Guitarist can mean anything from picking up the guitar once a month to being lead guitarist in the best band of the world.

One is a job description, the other one can be just a hobby or a full blown job.

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somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
One avenue pays bills at all levels, one you have to be truly good at to make anything. Reason I went back into science instead of music.

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- TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I once paid a bar tab with my guitar skills. Does that count?
  
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  - somethingsnappy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Counts! I’ve paid some tabs, and sometimes rent playing guitar, but had to go back to science to make it work long term.
    
    I had to make a decision. Everything is a sliding scale/gradient. Money aside even, it’s a lot easier to do great stuff as a musician outside of a science career than it is to to great stuff as a scientist outside of a music career.
    
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