It's not that disproportional in the scheme of things that my attention is still so strongly with theatre and the arts generally. Just after undergrad, I worked with a small theatre in Cincinnati while doing admin work during the day -- ended up working with some of the global execs at a major firm during daytime hours, contacts which would certainly have sufficed for a prosperous career in consumer products. Similarly, after the conservatory masters, I did the same type of admin work in global c-suites in NYC, and then segued into developing a website with an exec from one of the large venues in the city -- both of these, had they been what I was doing, would have allowed me to carve out a decent niche in the arts-affiliated marketing world, or the marches and fens outside of the big-money corporate world. As before, I was tempted, but there is such a thing as a coherent life, and the work of one's life, so I actually fought quite hard to keep either from being a full-time first-priority focus. In the end, although I didn't, like Blackstone, bid farewell to my muse, she was kidnapped in short order, and then began the second of the three peculiar attempts at a coherent career -- the law.
