Re: College

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

<http://www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt>What I've learned in my life 
is that if you do what you truly love and you keep doing it 
everyday..............if you learn to turn off the many, many voices in 
our society that say that economic security should be the basis of most 
of life's lifestyle decisions, occupationally, that you will be as happy 
as it's possible to be.

It's a lot harder for me to make money that it used to be as a 
professional musician and music teacher but making the decision
to go that route has let me have the most amazing life.

When I was 25 years old,  I looked myself in the mirror and told 
myself......'work hard for the next year of your life and learn 
everything that you think you should learn and then decide what city in 
the US to move to to attempt to be a professional musician'.

My parents were against it.........some of my friend thought I was 
nuts,  but, in my case,  I realized that I wouldn't be happiest
unless I went for it with all of my being.

That was my path and it's not everyone's, obviously,  but I know a lot 
of people who have good day jobs and put
all of their heart and soul in their off hours into being musicians.

Honestly,  some of the best musicians I've ever know have day jobs and 
some only make music for a living.

Sometimes, struggling financially, and having to compromise commercially 
speaking can really get in the way
of being creative.    Some of the most 'stuck' musicians I know, 
creatively,  are professional musicians.

The key, I think, though, is to pursue your dreams with all of your heart.

Increasing piano skills and learning how to make electronic music and be 
good at recording and producing
don't have to be at odds with each other.

In my life,  I make a ton of decisions that don't make sense for the 
amount of time that I have to put into them.
I just started playing violin this past month and I'm 58 years old.   I 
have no chance of making money
as a violinst, EVER............but I'm just in love with it and 
progressing very rapidly because of it.

Good luck and remember,  you do not have to have your life figured out 
before you are 25 years old.......
Hardly anyone I know ever did.

Rick Walker
> Gmail <k3zz21@gmail.com <mailto:k3zz21@gmail.com>> was like:
>
>     So I'm at the part of my life to choose what I want to do in the
>     future (Junior year highschool). I feel torn by this decision
>     especially considering that I'm highly indecisive on a daily
>     basis... I kinda want to major in some field of piano music, but I
>     don't want to have to end my hobby/goal/love for electronic music.
>     However without my piano background I probably would have no
>     musical knowledge to fuel my electronic music and also wouldn't
>     have known the joys of the emotional roller-coaster music brings :p.
>     Basically I'm asking (particularly anyone who has been in this
>     position) What should I do? It feels like the end of the world for
>     me right now yet its barely the beginning :/