Dave, I’d like to agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.
ha ha ha I could not resist.

Dave, you don’t need to be saved, you are 100% right in your opinion, in what has happened to you. So is are the others that post here. --- They are opinions from their experience.

I do have a problem with the word career. If it is a career, it is the only career that you get fired from at the end of the job/gig.
Keep in mind that I played Wedding and parties- - - one-nighters
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Just saying, John C.