After hitting bottom, laid-off Ottawa man finds new lease on life by busking
Published Tuesday, July 30, 2019 9:27PM EDT
But it’s unlikely any of them have guessed at the tumultuous journey that led this particular street musician to his corner.The jazz musician has been playing in the market in Ottawa for five years now, and told CTV News Ottawa that every year his music is getting “better and better and better.” But before he picked up the guitar, Rowland belonged to a very different world. He used to be a software developer, working during Ottawa’s high-tech boom. He had all the markers of success: a house, a regular paycheque, a wife and two kids.“I got laid off at the age of 50 and I could not find another job for about three years,” Rowland said. “And at the end of that period came realization that maybe I was never going to work as a software engineer again.
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