Performing in front of an audience is the most gratifying and frightening profession on the planet. Not many jobs give such acceptance so fast and in so many different ways.

However, not many jobs are as insecure. It is a feast or famine business and not everyone who is in it has the stomach to continue. It takes a certain constitution for someone to be all right with hearing “No.” Don’t allow rejection to get in the way of your goals.

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

Babe Ruth

So, hats off to the people who stay with it and double acknowledgement to those who don’t have to sling a hamburger, bartender, or wait tables to survive.

Rick Michel

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