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.

• 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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