Not in direct response to your question, but on a related topic, it's also worthwhile considering the choice of a profession as a process with multiple solutions over the course of a lifetime. When one has many interests and many potentials, pursuing several of them, sequentially or simultaneously, not necessarily to the extreme of one's potential, but at least to a personally-satisfying and vocationally-useful degree of mastery, may be just as valid an approach as developing narrow expertise in a singular area of focus. And sometimes, in the process, one discovers or creates new professions that integrate these various interests and skills.

Also, as far as I can tell, the niche historically filled by minstrels appears to be occupied mainly by late-night talk show hosts these days!


...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...