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- From: richard@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz (Richard Parry)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Charging for training?
- Message-ID: <722003090snx@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:24:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.195054.27141@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Reply-To: parry_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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- Organization: Masterful Enterprises UnLimited.
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- In article <1992Nov15.195054.27141@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> anderson@fermi.phys.ualberta.ca writes:
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- > > We pretty much feel that if you are making money out of a love of
- > > something (take that however you like), you are indeed cheapening it.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Interesting attitude. I love physics and I make a (meager) living out of
- > doing it. I don't really feel like I'm cheapening it. By your philosophy,
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- Like I said, take that however you like. You devote yourself selflessly
- (maybe I should qrite Mills & Boon for a living :) to something, paying
- very little to your sempai, and then suddenly start your own club and
- charge heaps.
-
- Hm. Interesting attitude.
-
- > if anyone has a job doing something they love they should give up the job
- > so that they can get one doing something they don't love and then just
- > pursue the thing they love on a hobby level.
-
- Not _exactly_ what I said...
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- > All the best. Hope your doing something you dislike suitably for a living.
-
- No worries... ;)
-
- Perhaps I shouldn'y have brought this topic up. Seems that NZers agree
- with me, and the US guys don't like haveing the blantantly obvious shown
- to them.
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- It's a common catch phrase down here...:
-
- "Let's get our shodans and Intructors' Certs, and go to the
- States to teach!"
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