<p>Great news!! ~and not to denigrate office workers either - my best friend’s husband got his master’s degree in theater management and did it very successfully for 20 years. Then home town politics (having nothing to do with his quality or performance, which was superior in all ways) made his job disappear so he went back to school to get his degree in…ACOUNTING of all things, I’d rather be shot, but, he only had to go a year because he already had a good basic liberal arts degree. Now he’s making some pretty serious steady income and keeps winning trips to Europe from being the best in the company and stuff and much of it is because he’s got an edge over the ones who went straight into it right out of school, and surely it’s not necessary to spell it out too much, all the different perspectives and experience he brings to the table from 20 years in the real world of theater - I call it the real world because it’s a microcosm of everything that happens in the real world, whereas some jobs are more narrow in the spectrum. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Anyway - one more success story that started with theatre. Also they didn’t mind the FUN they had those first 20 years, either. And they have two talented kids, both of whom are going into…science. lol.</p>