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Re: Engineers, Nurses and Bears! OH MY!

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2011-04-15 02:38

1. OK, well I originally trained to be an English Lit. Professor, and taught at the U. of Minnesota and City College of San Francisco. Also a church-mouse poor professional choice.

2. Music is my passion. I hated teaching English actually more than I hated playing the clarinet (which I genuinely disliked, but it was music, so I liked it enough to do it. I have spent a lot of my life doing things I don't like. It's a Midwestern Lutheran disease).

I love hymnology, conducting, and oboe playing.

3. I switched careers midstream, and became a music minister. Also not a good way to make money, but it was a good gig.

4. The only reason I regret not doing music as a first career is the "what ifs". By and large, I suspect that if I had majored in music in the first place, and gone through the whole auditioning rat race, I would have ended up hating music as much as I ended up hating poetry and novels and essays after English Lit. grad school.

5. I did not pursue music as a career because my parents were paying my tuition and they were very much against my doing it.

6. Well, I was very happy after I switched careers and became a music minister. Before that, not so much.

I wish I had come to grips with my essential musician-ness earlier, and had taken steps to get a much more systematic musical training. I have something like 120 graduate and undergraduate music credits, but they are all in theory and musicology. I'm way behind the curve on performance training.

Susan

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