And then there's that picture of that little girl all growed up looking lovely playing in carnage hall as a teenager. Of course, like it said in the comments, um, rock stars earn more than classical musicians. Sitcom stars got houses on Cribs while Shakespearian actors starve. Which is another quiestion Wren brought up in another thread. No, it wasn't Wren. Who was it? Raddy, I think. Who brought up with the global economy on the cusp of change and technology changing the face of the job market, does it behoove our kid's more to teach them to work with their minds, or to work with technology, or to work with their hands?

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar