After a tenure freelancing, I started work as a programmer. In the past 15 years, I have seen businesses hunger for one thing: teams. The value which is so hard to come by is getting people to work together. In this respect, I hold that my music education was vastly more valuable than a computer science degree would have been. After all, in a music education, teamwork is called "good ensemble playing;" in most other fields, teamwork is called "cheating."A music education teaches the values of communication from both ends: it is the training not only of the expressing part of communication, but of the receiving part. The responsibility of the individual in a group effort is not only taught in music, but it is practically the only place it can be taught for most of us. Analytical skills learned through dissecting something as abstract as a piece of music serve us well far beyond analyzing pieces of music. I can offer as testament one programming shop I worked in which, out of a dozen programmers sported no fewer than three current or ex- bassoonists.