From: Ellen K. 

I had a similar realization -- went to Germany after graduating because in
those days that was what you had to do to break into opera... realized I
was not going to be great, and if I wasn't going to be great I didn't want
to go forward.  Who wants to spend their life as the third valkyrie from
the end?

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:01:32 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message :

>I was a jazz major, until I realized that even the most talented around
>would likely starve, and I wasn't the most talented around.

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