What does it mean

[David Ayers]

Is this a question?

[mjzee]

It ends in a question mark, sooooo.....?

[A Lark Ascending]

You've discovered agriculture?

[JSngry]

That you're being moved over?

[A Lark Ascending]

You'll never be centre stage in a Ewan MacColl song?

[Chuck Nessa]

What are you taking?

[Tim McG]

Maybe it means this:

[Chuck Nessa]

There are enough games on the internet.

[A Lark Ascending]

You don't have to search the internet. Lots of exciting games of Classical Connoisseur Top Trumps in the classical threads here.

[Hint: 'Schnabel' is usually a game winner]

[sonnymax]

Is this a question?

Did someone express their opinion that you have not "moved on"?

[David Ayers]

Is this a question?

Did someone express their opinion that you have not "moved on"?

No I was just thinking in general about the difference between moving on and dwelling for decades on the same activity or interest. Losses/gains etc.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Is this a question?

Did someone express their opinion that you have not "moved on"?

No I was just thinking in general about the difference between moving on and dwelling for decades on the same activity or interest. Losses/gains etc.

Well, to treat this thread seriously, I've always liked doing both.

I had 36 different jobs in the ten years after I left school (though I doubt if I could list them all now) then I joined the Civil Service and found I could keep on changing my job without the bother of changing my employer and the concommitant periods on the dole, which were more than inconvenient. So there's a security in keeping on the same boat, especially in midstream. But there's an adventure in jumping

In music, it's the same. I've kept my early interest in R&B for 55 years or more, but still have adventures in soul jazz, little dalliances with bop, hard bop and the avant garde, other grand passions for gospel music, Mbalax, Djeliya and various musics of western Mali, and now more adventures in Highlife related musics of Ghana and Nigeria. Next adventure will probably be into Congolese Rhumba. Keeping an interest and learning more about a music for many years brings some expertise (providing you can remember it all), which is kind of like security. But I remember Sailor Vernon writing something 30 years ago to the effect that he'd never be able to experience again the first time he heard the Muddy Waters or someone like that. So there's a risk of staleness setting in, too, if you don't have little adventures (with the maids in the hotel, so to speak) or even grand passions.

MG

[JSngry]

When your plate gets too big, just get a bigger plate.

(and when that stops working, start eating off the floor! )

[A Lark Ascending]

I had 36 different jobs in the ten years after I left school...

I've been in the same job (leaving aside internal promotion) in the same place for 35 years at the end of next month. Apart from part time school and student jobs, never had any other.

Having spent the first 18 years of my life being moved all too frequently from one R.A.F. posting to another (at 3 years old I was flying Spitfires), I took the first chance to stay in one place.

Just a pity it was the East Midlands!

Edited November 7, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I took the first chance to stay in one place.

Just a pity it was the East Midlands!

I say the same about South Wales

And the East Midlands is a LOT more prosperous than South Wales and has MUCH better weather.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

No hillsides with a welcome in the East Midlands.

[mjzee]

What does it not mean to have moved on?

[Chuck Nessa]

I certainly hope this doesn't have anything to do with "left behind".