I’m meant to be writing an essay. When I say meant it means that I should be doing that now, but I’m not, I’m posting my first blog. I’ve decided that achingbrain.net is looking far too Alex-o-centric… Enough with his techno-twaddle…
In attempting to conceive this first blog I pondered the various aspects of life, the universe or everything that I could potentially discuss thhrough this medium of the internetweb. So what would I like to point out/rant about to the great and good readers of this site (all four of you - you know who you are…). What did I decide, I hear you ask…
Well I thought I would do a little introduction into my excessively warped mind. I foolishly study music, recently people have started to ask that time-honoured question - what are you going to do when you finished (this mostly comes from sensible older relatives). Well I decided to try and find out what you do with a music degree…
First stop - Prospects - this is the UK governement approved site for careers advice when you graduate. And what does it tell me…
First on the list become a musician (painfully obvious suggestion - but painfully impossible to acheive) - apparently the armed forces are the largest UK employer of musicians. You have got to be kidding, me, in the army, pah!
Second on the list - composer, please… Apparently though the average composer’s income through composition itself is only 20% the rest being made up from ‘other employment’ (read job in the service industry).
They then go on to suggest various things such as librarian/editing/publishing/journalist all of which are dovetailed with ‘further training required’ or ‘highly competative’
Strangely the last thing they list is teaching… This seems to sharply contrast with the informative University of York Careers Pages which would suggest that out of there 162 graduates from their music department 30 of them ended up teaching or training to be a teacher. A further 65 ended up doing further study. The reamining 67 ended up scattered around. How 11 went into scientific jobs (including 1 medical - what?) I have no idea, given that music training has got precisely nowt to do with science. It is quite scary to think that these wholly unqualified people are out there doing whatever scientists do (blow up labs, experiment on rats…). 13 ended up in ‘other employment’ (read service industry).
The future is certainly not looking bright. However I still have lots of work to do before I actually graduate (with this essay looking more and more patchy by the minute, my chances of actually making it to the finishing post are looking slimmer by the second)…
If anyone has any suggestions what I should do with my life, it would help me to give a definative answer to those pesky relatives… Currently I work in what you could call the service industry (I prefer to refer to my current place of work as ‘the house of hell and eternal damnation’) and I have no intention of staying there… Internetweb readers and blog enthusiasts - save my soul…
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July 23rd, 2005 at 6:49 pm
Well Katherine, as it happens I have a job in an office just around the corner from the house of hell and eternal damnation and it did actually involve selling my soul (coincidence? I wonder…). Maybe you could try the same by selling out to the satanic machine of the world of business and finance…
July 23rd, 2005 at 6:49 pm
lovely idea will
…1+1=5…
…2×7=91…
finance definately not a strong point!
July 23rd, 2005 at 6:49 pm
trust me the world post the selling of your soul ain’t all it’s cracked up to be - but i’ve had a bit of a get rich quick brainwave - bear with me:
there seem to be many many many sectors of the community atm who are needing to sell their souls simply to pay the council tax, let alone the mortgage (don’t ge me started on either of those!!) - ie, musicians, like your good self, actors, writers, artists (ok, so it’s mainly people in the arts sector, but hey ho, we are after all the mainstay of a sane society…)
anyway - i reckon we should get in to the soul selling business… matching souls to particularly-destructive-but-lucrative-desk-based-conference-calling-pay-the-bills-style-jobs…
we’ll still be selling our souls, but we’ll make a fortune - sort of like a temping agency with more black and red clothing and horns involved… (actually, black and red have always suited me…)
join the counter revolution!!
who’s with me?!!
July 23rd, 2005 at 6:49 pm
you wrote all of that?
you should get your own blog.
: P
July 23rd, 2005 at 6:49 pm
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