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I had a job as principal bassoon in a symphony orchestra (80 musicians, so not a "full" orchestra with 4 in each wind group, but still decently sized). Tinnitus

I had a job as principal bassoon in a symphony orchestra (80 musicians, so not a "full" orchestra with 4 in each wind group, but still decently sized). Tinnitus ruined that and I had to look for another job. I worked as a librarian in the royal music library in Denmark while studying CS. I did not end up doing what I wanted (Jesus Christ, I work in Pascal!) but I have a great job. I would throw it all out of the window to work with music again though. The core thing for me is that music is all about "spiritually" feeding yourself. Employers realise this, and give you time to do that. I find that for programming this is not the case. I have to struggle to keep my soulby continuously struggling to have fun side projects.

tomcam 10y ago
I love Pascal! But the tinnitus is a nightmare. Sorry you got it. What caused it? How do you cope with it? I know modern instruments are much louder than they were a few decades ago.
- Roboprog 10y ago
  I get the impression that most European shops dodged the C/C++ bullet. They seem to prefer sane Algol derivatives with bounds checking. Here in the US, instead of getting something like "Eiffel", we got "Java", after the insanity of connecting C++ to the internet was demonstrated. It's all cowboy country on this side of the pond :-) ... and yeah, hearing issues are much more serious than problematic programming languages.