nobodysprefect

Oh, and it's not like I think you can play your way into a woman's heart. 1) It's not the heart we're talking about 2) seriously though, we connect *hard* and I want to surprise her with a RHCP line and something else besides.

I'm trying to get into the panties of this amazing bird who professed to me her undying love for RHCP and slap bass lines. We're in the same musical theatre piece. Which slap bass (she specifically loves slap bass) line should I master so's to induce increasing humidity in her panties? Yeah, I know, it's basically the same as learning tapping to score, but I don't care about taste this time. Well, I do, but not taste as in musical taste, far more carnal things in mind have I. (She's gorgeous)

I suppose I should save everyone the trouble and write a condensed version with the implications spelt out right away: My 'Life lessons and advice for non-perfect people:' First: You can't be THE BEST in everything, or maybe anything. But more importantly, you can never be [b]your [/b]best in what you don't love. And being your best is it's own reward. Second: the times is hard - for everybody! Environmental degradation (I'm looking at you, baby boomers! You f***tards chose to view using up non-renewables as [i]income[/i] instead of eating up our capital) and general societal trends which I won't bother to type out but which are well known in social sciences have put the writing on the wall: declining standards of living ahead in the West. (FFSG) Third: learn enough legalese to know when you should contact a lawyer. It's usually sooner than you think. It's also cheaper to do it sooner. Fourth: as a cancer survivor: you can't plan everything ahead. So don't make too intricate 30-year plans. Make sure you enjoy what you plan on doing for a living at least somewhat. Could be you die the first day of retirement. (As if there's a retirement for us! I kill me! )

Has been an interesting thread! And gets quite a bit of frank discussion, too. I'm graduating in 17 months with BSc, MSc(economics, finance, business law), LLB and LLM (Criminal & Process Law) (Yes, that's two complete 3 year bachelor's and 2 separate master's degrees, would take 10 years if you were to do them one after another... uh.) and I gotta say... [b]Do what you love![/b] I just got told by a loverrrly Polish girl that my eyes really light up when we talk intent. And that's all I should do with her, lest I anger the wife. [b]Listening to sensible advice[/b] and going after the MSc first[b] has felt like a real mistake.[/b] Because in the time between then and now we've had a credit crunch and a eurocrisis... And I absolutely hate working in commerce or industry. On the flip side, without a degree in the financial side of the world, I wouldn't be half as well positioned to prosecute or judge financial crime. Relevance to thread? I should probably study the standards of proof in piracy cases. My hunch is that the standard the copyright owners have been allowed to get away with may well be an interesting one. It's a pretty long line of legal reasoning and probably wouldn't work in your common law system of thought. I'd be willing to share the reasoning, but maybe not in this thread. Any interest? Point is, there are more distractions fighting for the consumers' entertainment money (and[b] declining real incomes if you look at income v. housing prices[/b], not income v. electric toy prices) and with youtube and spotify the young generations don't have to get into the habit of buying records I got into, which will, in the long run, probably mean a shrinking proportion of disposable income spent on records, but more on console games, DVDs, TV sets etc. Like Jake said, live music is on the up, though. OTOH the record companies are branching out into extracting revenue from merchandise sales and so forth. It flows fairly easily from corporate mindset and bargaining power. [b]What you'd expect from corporate[/b] lawyers, really. The professional musician has always had a different lifestyle from the nine to five worker. In Finland the prospects are worse* than they've ever been, though, so I would recommend a young person get an electrician's or a plumber's certificate so they can do that for 1-2 days per week and live on that salary while perfecting their craft. But then you have that backup plan that makes giving up easier... *the real (that's 'inflation and tax corrected') salary for the best players in my town has been on the decline for some time and there's no change in view. Then again, as Bilbo said, many positions offer less real salary now. Kinda lucked out in that my #1 love tends to pay off well.