Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-01-17 21:12
So I'm getting older and older, and my job (army musician) thankfully allows me and ENCOURAGES me to get better, practice, and bring my level of musicality up.
Unfortunately, by the time I realized I really like music,I had decided to join the army to play as much as possible (working fairly well so far).
While I'm getting better, progress is slow trying to divide up my time amongst all the things going on with life, and I'm just curious right now as to the possibility of going to school to get a masters fulltime (I hope to get a bachelors in SOMETHING by then) in music, and what are the possibilities/probabilities of being able to score some paying gigs?
I intend to practice as I can till then, and take lessons as regularly as I can with my schedule, but I feel as though I really can't be as dedicated as I would like to be until I retire and no longer have to allocate my time to so many areas. And it's a little frustrating. I feel as though if I had felt about playing ten years ago how I feel about it now, I would be in a college REALLY honing my skills and working on being a GREAT player. Whereas right now I feel like it's taking me 3 times as long to get better as it would if I were in college.
So has anyone heard of people really coming into their own at that age and is it just as likely for me to get into a good school for a masters at that age as the 23 year old who is young and "malleable" and "more likely to hold a successful career"? I'm just worried about under the table age discrimination when I send out applications. And then after GETTING my masters and finally having been able to spend time really honing my skills, being discriminated against again if I were to apply for some spots in whatever minor symphonies or bands that might be around.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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