It has been a year since I graduated with my bachelors degree in music. I can't help but think of where I was a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, four years ago, five years, six years...yes, I'm reflecting on my whole undergraduate experience. It seems odd to think that it was as far as seven years ago for me, since I still view 18 year old me the same as I see today me (though I realize they aren't the same person, they are in the same period of life to me). And odder still, I felt each year in college had an overarching theme to it. I don't know why I feel that is true, but when I reflect, that's how I see it.
Year 1- Social Meltingpot
I always looked at my freshmen year as a culmination of how the different social philosophies all coexist in an environment such as college. Really, from when I first entered the dorms there was a sense of communism- no one of us had everything, but each one of us would have at least one thing we were more than willing to share. It was brilliant! One of us would have beer to share, one of us would have the plush room to chill in, one of us would have food to share around, one of us would have a car, one of us would have... you see my point? We would all share and create a community based on sharing what we had free of charge. Enter one of my favorite life philosophies- beer shall be paid in kind with more beer.
Then you had the socialist atmosphere of how a college is run in general. You had free lunches provided by the institution, as well as the student health clinic, library, wifi, access to the buildings on campus, the heirarchy of professors. It was a layered system, but it benefited us all in a different way. It provided us all with opportunities to move forward, which was exactly the way it is supposed to be.
Capitalism is of course looking for jobs and the traditional college spending sprees. Face it, college students have enough money to get what they want. How many college students do you see eating ramen while watching Netflix on their iPhone? Those things cost money, it's just that the average college student has chosen to allocate their money to "fun" things over essential things. So you find crappy jobs to pay your way through it all and hope for the best. Not to mention we all still have to eat and buy textbooks and other essentials.
Even mercantilism was represented by trading among other folks you don't know. You may have something you thought was great, or was necessary, for a time. Though it is still in just as good of condition as when you bought it, it is no longer of use to you. Such as textbooks or old technology. So instead of selling it to students who couldn't even afford it on used conditions, you may just trade for something they have you need of equal value. Textbooks I honestly say are the basis for this thought, and why not? Trading a Bio101 book for an Econ101 book is a pretty straight trade- both are about 150$, and useless after the class is over.
I will be honest- this was also the most memorable year of my life purely because it was all new. I was an adult, and I took care of myself and learned how to budget money, time, energy, and all manner of resources.
Year 2- Year of Silent Meditation
My first year I studied a lot of how western civilizations worked and progressed. My second year I started taking a lot of eastern philosophy classes- specifically in Zen philosophy and Daoism. I wanted to find some solace with myself all year. My friends from my first year seemed to have ignored me after the summer came and went, not to mention my roommate ran away and left me holding a bag I could never get someone to help with (I couldn't sell my contract, and nobody wanted to room with me). So I took classes on alien cultures to me, and I found that it fit me. I began mindful meditation, living in the moment. I started to curb my angst and anger into productive thoughts and advanced my studies farther than I thought I was ever able to do.
I began reading Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac as well as a few interpretations of The Legend of the Monkey King, several poetry books, and of course the Dao de ching. I participated in more cultural programs brought by the University and talking to people from the countries I was studying. I can't say I found religion, but I was able to find peace within myself. Everything that year had a tinge of the Orient, and I only was able to see it because I was forced into a moderate state of solitude.
Year 3- How Life Works
By year three I was once more living with friends, dating, and finding a lot out about life. From a social aspect it was your typical college experience. But my studies in Zoology had become very advanced and sophisticated. I began seeing the world in all its splendid beauty as a functioning organism. The chemistry of all animal interactions, the biophysics of their movement and actions, the intermixture the ecosystem provided.
But as stated, I also began to look into my life as a biological thing. As a human we are social creatures, we need social interaction, we have to have friends. This was also the year my grandmother passed away, which I had a hard time coping with. She and I were very close, and she was my first music teacher, and in fact the person who pushed me along with music the most. I feel I owe her a huge part of my life, but we must all die. And from all that I realized what the family unit meant to our social species- developementally, biologically, ecologically, it is a pretty resilient survival technique we've developed.
Love and lust are natural things- as are all emotions. Adding that to my mindful meditation I saw the year as a lesson on how things worked, how life is cultivated and executed and everything in between.
Year 4- How to Live Life
This was a year of a lot of change. I decided to do the stupid thing and move in with my girlfriend, a move I do not regret. The way everything in this year played out, I learned you should do what you love. The start of it was spent moving with my girlfriend and best friend from highschool. I decided that year that every week I should try something new- an idea from my girlfriend which I loved. I will admit that it usually boiled down to a new food or drink, but we all have to start somewhere. My boss also gave me more hours, which allowed me more luxuries and abilities. Unfortunately, I could only go so far with it, but I tried.
The year continued with a lot of drama, how to cope and work with it is always a difficult situation. More importantly, the thought of going into the medical field had less and less appeal to me the more I involved myself in music. Finally, by the end of the year, I cut a few ties, and changed the path of my life entirely to what I really loved, not what I just had an interest in.
Year 5- Chrysalis
I won't say a lot on this year. It was difficult for a lot of reasons. I lost my perspective on who I was and who I wanted to be and how I wanted to get to any of those things. There were rifts appearing in all areas of my life and I wasn't sure how to go about fixing them. Of course, being now 23 I was older than most of my peers and didn't feel like I belonged where I was in life or geographically. I realized that whatever the outcome of this year, I would become someone different.
Year 6- Aces Wild
Cards. Card games. For whatever that damn 52 card deck of bicycle cards became the common thread for all events in my final year. I won't get into a lot of the year specifically. But my favorite song of the year was about cards, I learned several games to help keep my sanity. I researched a lot of the origins of tarot and how the card deck became an entertainment staple. And with all the events of the year, I was late on the lesson of "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." C'est la vie.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
The 7 Year Itch
This isn't a post about the movie, or the subject the phrase is supposed to mean (being that after being in a relationship for 6 years it is a trial to not cheat in the 7th or something like that). No this is about the fact that I have been in my college town for 5 1/2 years. Before I leave, it will be a full 6 years of this town, and despite much incentive to stay more, I just couldn't do anything professionally or academically for a 7th year here. Not only is my #2 grad school choice doing a partial in state program here in the fall of '12, but I also have a shot at a full time job where I work that will pay me a professional wage. Both would be exceedingly tempting, if it were anywhere else in the world than where I live.
Why is it I have a hard time staying despite these obvious advantageous incentives?
1) I've never really lived in a town for longer than 6 years. I get an itch to just move someplace different where I am unfamiliar. The world is small, my life is short, I don't want to settle in a town until I'm ready to start a family.
2) This town has no soul. I have tried to make the best of it, but this town has nothing to offer. I just want a book store, someplace I could hang out, and something more than just going to the movies. Not to mention the populace of this town is generally uneducated, and don't support education, but also are completely uncultured and don't make a stab at it.
3) Ending my undergrad is a landmark in my life, seems like the perfect time for change. I'm willing to stick around this place for those few weeks that my classes are actually going on, but I don't want to stay here for another 2 years. I'd freaking kill myself (not really, but I wouldn't really progress as a person very much).
Now I understand the job market sucks. I understand that student loans are crippling. I am not an individual who lies down and takes what stupid things society says I "should" believe, or I "should" do. I intend to specialize in a technological field, a field that despite what the news wants you to believe, is still growing and needs more people to fill the ranks. My plans aren't to work in a library per se, but to program, alter, tweak, and design catalogs, web sites... Even then, this is just for a day job while I continue to compose and travel around the world, and try and make my music a full time job. No, this isn't delusions of grandeaur, I will work myself to the dirt to make this happen, because even though the world economy is tanking, I don't need to go down with it. Money is immaterial, it's imaginary, if I need more I will figure a way to get more. I can market my intelligence, I can learn new tricks to satisfy employers, I can work hard, and even do manual labor. But, if I want this lifestyle, I CANNOT STAY WHERE I AM. Funny when you live in a town where its GDP drops well above national rates (meaning local economy=impossibly poor) that a dream of making decent money, just isn't that realistic.
There are plenty of people my age that make 6 figure incomes, I WILL be one of them before I am 30, and I WILL have traveled to at least 3 continents at that point too. This will happen, but not so long as I live in this town.
So, I do have senioritis, I have an itch to get the hell out of this town, but that's because I want to do fun things, live the life I want, despite society telling me a lower middle class citizen should stay there.
I might sounds like an idealistic college student, but the only thing I have really learned in college is that to get anything you really want in life, you have to work at it. If there is one thing I believe I am good at, it's that I am a good worker.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Things I've learned as a20 something
This is a simple list if things I've learned in college so far.
1) always make time for friends and family
2)keep your eyes on the prize.because it's a lit more attractive than the shit you're wading through.
3) make friends with someone who owns a truck. You never know...
4) alcohol is almost as acceptable as cash for favors
5) studying can get you good grades, questioning your professors and what they teach you will get you a good job.
6) always have a car that always starts.
7) there is no such thing as a flat parking lot.specifically when you don't have a car that doesn't always star...
8)a smile and hello opens more doors than you'd think
9) everyone is down with rock band or ddr when there's at least 4 people present.
10) drama is a silly thing invented by teenagers and perfected by bad tv. All in all, you can live without it fabulously.
11) money really doesn't matter.it comes and goes as you need it, though not always on time.
12) time and what you do with it does matter, and you can never get it back.
13) there are fun times-e.g. Bombing around town with friends doing nothing in particular. And fun times-e.g. Drinking every night and sleeping around. Both give you stories, but only one gives you people to share it with.
14) important people will remain no matter what.
15) you never know where life may take you, so don't get miffed if you don't wind out with the dream job your 5 year you old wanted.
16) burning bridges only demeans who you are as a person, and teaches nobody anything.
17) no matter what happens, as long as you have a roof over your head, at least bread and eggs in your cupboard, and someone to share it with, life is good.
18) you know what? life is just good.
19) tv is the garbage bin for time.
20) hard work pays off, though sometimes you need patience to see its rewards.
21) cheap is cheap, expensive can be cheap, mediocre is usually ok.
22) doing research before making any big decision should be the law. Taking some impulse on minor decision is fun.
23) sleep on any large investment because the people hocking them are professionals trained to screw you.
24) maurices is as god of a place as any to blog.
25) social networks change every five years, and kill as much time as tv.
26) teenagers are usually annoying.kids however are funny.and adults who stay as one or the other are just sad...
27) extremists = scary
28) extremists = close minded
29) the closer you are to a major religious zone, the more extreme people are.
30) internet is not a replacement for human interaction.
31) a good deal on something you didn't even want 10 min before hand, really isn't a good deal.
32) don't eat dollar store food.
33) keep your body healthy! Exercise and diet as well as regular doctor visits, even on a budget, are essential to maintaining a happy life.
34) you're never to young to be yourself.
35) problem solving is essential to any relationship.
36) to the ladies: don't buy pants that give you a she-weiner.
37) pants hanging off your butt don't do anything for you, so but a damn belt.
38) if you want to make sure you don't go overboard with buying creature comforts,develope a stingy attitude about buying only the best things, and only when you /have/ the money.
39) debt sucks.get out asap.
40) to get more energy, you must use what you have first.
41) mooches always get their come-upins.
42) liars only hurt, so tell the damn truth.
43) labels are another kitchy invention.
44) you will die someday.get over it.
45) you can't force someone to feel one way or another about you.
46) the generation/s below you will make some things fadacious that you will think is dumb, silly, or dumbfounding.you participated in it too, so don't judge.
47) unless it's blatently supporting something you know they know nothing about (che guavara anyone?)
48) take your lumps early on, everyone takes them eventually.
49) do the small things.
50) love yourself.nobody else will be able to until you do.
Simple list, nothing groundbreaking. And just things I've learned since coming to college
1) always make time for friends and family
2)keep your eyes on the prize.because it's a lit more attractive than the shit you're wading through.
3) make friends with someone who owns a truck. You never know...
4) alcohol is almost as acceptable as cash for favors
5) studying can get you good grades, questioning your professors and what they teach you will get you a good job.
6) always have a car that always starts.
7) there is no such thing as a flat parking lot.specifically when you don't have a car that doesn't always star...
8)a smile and hello opens more doors than you'd think
9) everyone is down with rock band or ddr when there's at least 4 people present.
10) drama is a silly thing invented by teenagers and perfected by bad tv. All in all, you can live without it fabulously.
11) money really doesn't matter.it comes and goes as you need it, though not always on time.
12) time and what you do with it does matter, and you can never get it back.
13) there are fun times-e.g. Bombing around town with friends doing nothing in particular. And fun times-e.g. Drinking every night and sleeping around. Both give you stories, but only one gives you people to share it with.
14) important people will remain no matter what.
15) you never know where life may take you, so don't get miffed if you don't wind out with the dream job your 5 year you old wanted.
16) burning bridges only demeans who you are as a person, and teaches nobody anything.
17) no matter what happens, as long as you have a roof over your head, at least bread and eggs in your cupboard, and someone to share it with, life is good.
18) you know what? life is just good.
19) tv is the garbage bin for time.
20) hard work pays off, though sometimes you need patience to see its rewards.
21) cheap is cheap, expensive can be cheap, mediocre is usually ok.
22) doing research before making any big decision should be the law. Taking some impulse on minor decision is fun.
23) sleep on any large investment because the people hocking them are professionals trained to screw you.
24) maurices is as god of a place as any to blog.
25) social networks change every five years, and kill as much time as tv.
26) teenagers are usually annoying.kids however are funny.and adults who stay as one or the other are just sad...
27) extremists = scary
28) extremists = close minded
29) the closer you are to a major religious zone, the more extreme people are.
30) internet is not a replacement for human interaction.
31) a good deal on something you didn't even want 10 min before hand, really isn't a good deal.
32) don't eat dollar store food.
33) keep your body healthy! Exercise and diet as well as regular doctor visits, even on a budget, are essential to maintaining a happy life.
34) you're never to young to be yourself.
35) problem solving is essential to any relationship.
36) to the ladies: don't buy pants that give you a she-weiner.
37) pants hanging off your butt don't do anything for you, so but a damn belt.
38) if you want to make sure you don't go overboard with buying creature comforts,develope a stingy attitude about buying only the best things, and only when you /have/ the money.
39) debt sucks.get out asap.
40) to get more energy, you must use what you have first.
41) mooches always get their come-upins.
42) liars only hurt, so tell the damn truth.
43) labels are another kitchy invention.
44) you will die someday.get over it.
45) you can't force someone to feel one way or another about you.
46) the generation/s below you will make some things fadacious that you will think is dumb, silly, or dumbfounding.you participated in it too, so don't judge.
47) unless it's blatently supporting something you know they know nothing about (che guavara anyone?)
48) take your lumps early on, everyone takes them eventually.
49) do the small things.
50) love yourself.nobody else will be able to until you do.
Simple list, nothing groundbreaking. And just things I've learned since coming to college
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Another double whammy!
Ok, so another rant for today. Credit cards and indeed any credit system. I just finished paying off my credit card, which for all 1200$ that was on it initially, wound out costing me around 4000$. That's a lot of money for a college student to fork over.
What to say about credit companies-they are pushy, greedy, mean, persistent, and smooth talkers. They know how to sell their product really well, and take advantage of stupid college students ( I can probably extent this to just people in general, but i was just a freshman when this started).
And the story starts like this: I obtained the credit card my senior year in highschool to try and build some credit in college as well as overdraft protection the banker tried to convince me I absolutely needed. Bullshit. Best overdraft protection: go into the red once (meaning like $50+ of overdrafting), and smart people learn to budget so much better after that. So here's how I accrued my credit bill. My freshman year in college I did pretty well, paid everything, never went into the red, always are, and I was able to afford living in on-campus housing (fancy for dorms). One of the best years if my life to be sure,a lot because my best friend and cousin was there for it all. So the summer after that initial year we decide to move into an apartment together. He skipped town on me, which, when you work minimum wage and part-time, is a death sentence. I spent the year working my add off to succeeded in school and pay my debts. $450 a month was rent, and on the best of months, how much I earned in wages. So now you can see why that credit line I had left rather alone (except with quick, cheap monthly purchases that I immediately paid off to build credit) seemed like my only option. I know what you are probably thinking "why didn't you ask family for help or advice?" My dad was paying for my cell phone at the time (which I'm still eternally thankful for) but he has had some history of getting behind payments as well...so my phone often would be deactivated, and with no internet, I was alone. This is not an exaggeration, the only friendly human contact I had was at my work. Later in the school year my friend Mitch would hang out with me and share his flex meals with me (which I am also eternally thankful for). So that's how I made my debt. For three years I've been battling to get it paid off. As of 9:23pm Jan. 21, 2011 I have it eliminated.
My advice: if you feel the need to build credit, don't do it in college. You may want to start your life early, that's ok, but don't plan on buying a house until you established your credit as a couple. How you builds credit safely and easily: get one credit card to your most used grocery store, use it when you buy groceries , then go home and transfer money to pay it off immediately. Consistent payments and having fewer lines of credit GREATLY helps build credit. Not high payments less frequently.
Always pay your utilities and rent on-time. These silly bills help to establish credibility, which often helps you obtain credit or better housing or deals (you'd be surprised how far a couple of good references can take you).
Don't take out loans if at all possible. I make two exceptions: student loans and mortgages.lets face it, education us expensive and nobody wants to waste 9 years of the"playing it debt-free" method to get a 4 year degree. Houses are expensive, and nobody is going to save up $10k and just but a house (unless you are rich in which case you don't really need credit).
Now for these loans, get ahead with them, get that job but still live in a small apartment until you get a better job in life or married or something like that.you spent at least 4 years living in smaller spaces just fine, so why move up? Seriously, as a lower middle class wage you make around $30-50k annually. So if you still pay $300 a month for rent and have an average $200 a month in bills and groceries...that's $6k a year on what beds to be paid. How much outside of that you want to pay off your loans is up to you, but you can see how much faster you can pay it off by waiting a few years (ya you might want a new car, but c'mon, with the way gas is right now, that's not a sound investment really).
Mortgages are trickier because you can't just live in a cheap place to boost your monthly allowance on that bill. Still, if you have already eliminated almost all your other debts, and maintain things like you are still in college with no money, you can eliminate years of large debt in months.
so credit is the bitch of society in my opinion because you need it, and you need it eliminated. Not to mention or current world economic decline is due to overeager credit companies willing to suck the middle class dry, so avoid debt to these companies as much as possible. Try to only have one or no debtors at a time, but if you do find yourself in too deep with too many debtors, talk to a credit consultant or starving business major at your local college, they want to help get that monkey off everyone's back (or eat if you're the college student). Yes they charge a fee, but that isn't anywhere as bad as what the debtors charge you in overdraft or surplus charges is it?
So be smart, debt is inevitable, so prepare for it, and be ready to squash it as fast as possible.
What to say about credit companies-they are pushy, greedy, mean, persistent, and smooth talkers. They know how to sell their product really well, and take advantage of stupid college students ( I can probably extent this to just people in general, but i was just a freshman when this started).
And the story starts like this: I obtained the credit card my senior year in highschool to try and build some credit in college as well as overdraft protection the banker tried to convince me I absolutely needed. Bullshit. Best overdraft protection: go into the red once (meaning like $50+ of overdrafting), and smart people learn to budget so much better after that. So here's how I accrued my credit bill. My freshman year in college I did pretty well, paid everything, never went into the red, always are, and I was able to afford living in on-campus housing (fancy for dorms). One of the best years if my life to be sure,a lot because my best friend and cousin was there for it all. So the summer after that initial year we decide to move into an apartment together. He skipped town on me, which, when you work minimum wage and part-time, is a death sentence. I spent the year working my add off to succeeded in school and pay my debts. $450 a month was rent, and on the best of months, how much I earned in wages. So now you can see why that credit line I had left rather alone (except with quick, cheap monthly purchases that I immediately paid off to build credit) seemed like my only option. I know what you are probably thinking "why didn't you ask family for help or advice?" My dad was paying for my cell phone at the time (which I'm still eternally thankful for) but he has had some history of getting behind payments as well...so my phone often would be deactivated, and with no internet, I was alone. This is not an exaggeration, the only friendly human contact I had was at my work. Later in the school year my friend Mitch would hang out with me and share his flex meals with me (which I am also eternally thankful for). So that's how I made my debt. For three years I've been battling to get it paid off. As of 9:23pm Jan. 21, 2011 I have it eliminated.
My advice: if you feel the need to build credit, don't do it in college. You may want to start your life early, that's ok, but don't plan on buying a house until you established your credit as a couple. How you builds credit safely and easily: get one credit card to your most used grocery store, use it when you buy groceries , then go home and transfer money to pay it off immediately. Consistent payments and having fewer lines of credit GREATLY helps build credit. Not high payments less frequently.
Always pay your utilities and rent on-time. These silly bills help to establish credibility, which often helps you obtain credit or better housing or deals (you'd be surprised how far a couple of good references can take you).
Don't take out loans if at all possible. I make two exceptions: student loans and mortgages.lets face it, education us expensive and nobody wants to waste 9 years of the"playing it debt-free" method to get a 4 year degree. Houses are expensive, and nobody is going to save up $10k and just but a house (unless you are rich in which case you don't really need credit).
Now for these loans, get ahead with them, get that job but still live in a small apartment until you get a better job in life or married or something like that.you spent at least 4 years living in smaller spaces just fine, so why move up? Seriously, as a lower middle class wage you make around $30-50k annually. So if you still pay $300 a month for rent and have an average $200 a month in bills and groceries...that's $6k a year on what beds to be paid. How much outside of that you want to pay off your loans is up to you, but you can see how much faster you can pay it off by waiting a few years (ya you might want a new car, but c'mon, with the way gas is right now, that's not a sound investment really).
Mortgages are trickier because you can't just live in a cheap place to boost your monthly allowance on that bill. Still, if you have already eliminated almost all your other debts, and maintain things like you are still in college with no money, you can eliminate years of large debt in months.
so credit is the bitch of society in my opinion because you need it, and you need it eliminated. Not to mention or current world economic decline is due to overeager credit companies willing to suck the middle class dry, so avoid debt to these companies as much as possible. Try to only have one or no debtors at a time, but if you do find yourself in too deep with too many debtors, talk to a credit consultant or starving business major at your local college, they want to help get that monkey off everyone's back (or eat if you're the college student). Yes they charge a fee, but that isn't anywhere as bad as what the debtors charge you in overdraft or surplus charges is it?
So be smart, debt is inevitable, so prepare for it, and be ready to squash it as fast as possible.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Brain Drain
Seeing as how it is now halfway, through the midterm week, it seems appropriate for there to be a time of reflection on exactly where I've been, and how much longer I have. This is all related to college mind you...and I still have 1 3/4 years until I graduate. This isn't too long that I can't bear it, but after that is grad school and then, life. Am I prepared for life yet? no, so thank god I have 3 1/2 years before it slaps me in the face like a trout (see twitter).
Then there is to consider that this is in fact my fifth year of college, and I will graduate my sixth...advantage? I was able to sift through my growing years and come into a set idea of what a great career would be, and it was not what I began with. Disadvantage? well, to begin I will get my bachelors degree in 6 years, and that's with student loans to pay off. Plus I will still have 2 years of grad school.
For those of you who don't know- I wish to become a music librarian, which requires at the least an B.S. in music and an M.L.S/M.I.T.S (masters of library science/information technology science). At the most I could get a MMLS (same as above, just with music specifically), tagged with a Masters in Musicology (which is only a couple more classes if you actually look, but it does add another semester...). Then comes the true struggle of finding a job-but that is a stress I can postpone for a couple years.
If you are wondering, "Why dear god, Trevor, are you going into such a boring profession!?" Well, to put it simply, it is a good day job. Statistically it has a high satisfaction rate amongst professionals, it is stimulating on a daily basis, but nobody will die if I do something wrong. Plus I get to work in music all day! And at night and evening and weekends? I GET A LIFE!! plus the pay is decent enough to have a family on, which is also good for me!
Mind you, I like to think of my career as a day job, and leave me plenty of time to write the great American novel, or compose some brilliant music (ya, i'm sure it will be stellar...) but hell, it's my free time to enjoy all these skills I am learning or have learned.
That's my rant for this evening. Go, get poptarts now. Or hamsters, whichever floats your boat.
Then there is to consider that this is in fact my fifth year of college, and I will graduate my sixth...advantage? I was able to sift through my growing years and come into a set idea of what a great career would be, and it was not what I began with. Disadvantage? well, to begin I will get my bachelors degree in 6 years, and that's with student loans to pay off. Plus I will still have 2 years of grad school.
For those of you who don't know- I wish to become a music librarian, which requires at the least an B.S. in music and an M.L.S/M.I.T.S (masters of library science/information technology science). At the most I could get a MMLS (same as above, just with music specifically), tagged with a Masters in Musicology (which is only a couple more classes if you actually look, but it does add another semester...). Then comes the true struggle of finding a job-but that is a stress I can postpone for a couple years.
If you are wondering, "Why dear god, Trevor, are you going into such a boring profession!?" Well, to put it simply, it is a good day job. Statistically it has a high satisfaction rate amongst professionals, it is stimulating on a daily basis, but nobody will die if I do something wrong. Plus I get to work in music all day! And at night and evening and weekends? I GET A LIFE!! plus the pay is decent enough to have a family on, which is also good for me!
Mind you, I like to think of my career as a day job, and leave me plenty of time to write the great American novel, or compose some brilliant music (ya, i'm sure it will be stellar...) but hell, it's my free time to enjoy all these skills I am learning or have learned.
That's my rant for this evening. Go, get poptarts now. Or hamsters, whichever floats your boat.
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