Subway Rides and the Daily Grind

Sometimes I have to move around the city with my cello and sometimes it has to be at rush hour.  But because I had my cello this morning and got squished next to a woman that I got on at 86th St, I got to hear about her experience playing in the Met Orchestra.  She's a cellist too and had jury duty before she had to play an opera this evening.  It was interesting to hear her perspective on orchestral playing and gigging in New York.  It's her job to have a different schedule every week, playing different productions.  What a life.  Yesterday one of the fathers in my early childhood music class was a Tony-awarded orchestrator and conductor for Broadway.  Who knows what the other thousands of people around me do in their day-today?