FMS-Blog : The Wildly Whimsical, Mostly Musical WebLog
Friday, May 12, 2006
Sink or swim...
Well, I usually try to keep this blog on some musical subject or other - I have very eclectic tastes and interests in music so it can often be about wildly different aspects of this very wide subject area - but today is a special day so I thought I'd drop a little personal one in for a change.
Ever since I finished university (and throughout summer holidays during that period) I have earned the majority of my income from administration type jobs and, apart from a brief spell a couple of years ago, I've never really made any attempt to earn a living from music. Well, recently I seem to have run into a number of fairly negative experiences in the corporate office environment - too many egos and too many people willing to walk over anyone else for the sake of how they are perceived by the big boys upstairs - so I've finally got the motivation to reject this whole culture and try to make it without any longer being involved with these greedy, fat cat types.
So, as of Monday I am officially my own boss. I don't expect, of course, to make huge piles of money or live it up in any magnificent style, but I do hope that my efforts to advertise the services I can offer will be successful enough to get a handful of pupils (I'd imagine mostly in piano) and do the odd playing job for weddings and other occasions; enough, that is, to make a fair living from it. I'll probably need to get some kind of part time work aswell to subsidise my income so this I see as another opportunity to try out something completely different : ideally, I'd like to work for the state - either the NHS, the council or perhaps for an educational establishment like a uni or college. Watch this space anyways. In the meantime, if you know anyone who wants piano lessons or needs a pianist for their wedding please keep me in mind... there will soon be cash offers for these kind of recommendations!!
So, ths blog will be turning the spotlight back on the musical world as of next week, and I also hope to update the main body of my website with many more features, including some online music theory lessons etc so please continue to visit regularly.
Ever since I finished university (and throughout summer holidays during that period) I have earned the majority of my income from administration type jobs and, apart from a brief spell a couple of years ago, I've never really made any attempt to earn a living from music. Well, recently I seem to have run into a number of fairly negative experiences in the corporate office environment - too many egos and too many people willing to walk over anyone else for the sake of how they are perceived by the big boys upstairs - so I've finally got the motivation to reject this whole culture and try to make it without any longer being involved with these greedy, fat cat types.
So, as of Monday I am officially my own boss. I don't expect, of course, to make huge piles of money or live it up in any magnificent style, but I do hope that my efforts to advertise the services I can offer will be successful enough to get a handful of pupils (I'd imagine mostly in piano) and do the odd playing job for weddings and other occasions; enough, that is, to make a fair living from it. I'll probably need to get some kind of part time work aswell to subsidise my income so this I see as another opportunity to try out something completely different : ideally, I'd like to work for the state - either the NHS, the council or perhaps for an educational establishment like a uni or college. Watch this space anyways. In the meantime, if you know anyone who wants piano lessons or needs a pianist for their wedding please keep me in mind... there will soon be cash offers for these kind of recommendations!!
So, ths blog will be turning the spotlight back on the musical world as of next week, and I also hope to update the main body of my website with many more features, including some online music theory lessons etc so please continue to visit regularly.
