So far, I’ve received 15 responses. They’ve been great! THANK YOU! The suggestions are varied, yet they - not surprisingly! - coalesce around certain themes. Here’s a bunch, which I’ve grouped into larger categories:
Media/publishing/broadcasting:
CBC producer/announcer
music reviewer
music podcast host
Arts / music organization work:
marketing for the arts
arts marketing
advertising for arts groups you believe in
communications specialist (arts or cultural organizations esp)
arts admin
agent for the arts
music nonprofit program manager
Marketing / PR work (not necessarily limited to the arts):
nonprofit marketing and outreach
PR specialist
content strategist
Event / festival planning:
event planning and coordination for weddings and other events (music/details/words/paper products ;-) ) [note: my stationary addiction is no secret to my friends]
event planner
event planning for Canada day and other festivals around town?????
Education:
creating a troupe/program to teach music appreciation to school aged kids, and taking it to middle schools
developing music outreach programs
music educator
college / university professor
giving TED talks ;)
Therapy / social services:
teen center counselor
music therapy
therapist
music therapy with youth, elderly, physically,mentally or emotionally damaged.
developing a non-profit organization that incorporates music and other arts to help others in some way. (seniors, people in prison, hospital patients);
helping stressed-out people relax through music and writing workshops (perhaps at a progressive corporation or individually)
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Parachute self-inventory: brainstorming exercise - appeal for suggestions
This is the letter I sent to my friends, family members, and colleagues. (Thanks to my sister for drafting it!):
Dear friends,
Hope this finds you well!
As you may know, I’m in the middle of a career change, and I would be most grateful for your help. Do you have a minute to glance at my list (below) and send me your feedback? This is a brainstorming exercise from the book What Color is Your Parachute?
I know you’re busy – so please don’t spend much time. A quick reply with a jotted note or two would be fantastic. Complete sentences, niceties: not required.
I’ve identified my 5 favourite skills and my 3 favourite knowledges / fields / subject areas.
When you look at the lists below, what jobs, job titles and/ or career fields come to mind? Note: it’s certainly okay if you say “musicologist” or “university professor.” BUT. I’m especially interested in jobs, job titles and fields apart from those two.
Just take a wild guess! There are no wrong answers. Please jot them down and send them in a reply email.
Thank you very much for your help.
best,
Sarah
My five favourite skills:
Communicating in person
Attending to detail
Motivating people
Diverting, amusing and entertaining
Using words at a high level - i.e. not just writing, but writing in situations in which word choice is as important as content
My three favourite knoweldges, fields or subject areas:
In the clearing of the mists, lives a figure.
A resident of the citadel, who chose to walk past it's hallowed grounds.
He inhabits a small corner now,
a fragment.
in an avenue that none bother to stop and look.
It's sidewalks are filled with tiny fissures and cracks.
If you stare at them long enough, you can almost feel yourself slipping through them.
As you walk through the plaza and it's corridors,
the weight of thoughts will cast a burden to your steps.
Like a grim shadow that dances around the street's post lights.
His mind is like a stack of dominos.
Always looking straight ahead and in different ways- intuitive.
Bridging the gap between flames and sparks,
at the risk of treading past the fine line it walks,
and the whole thing collapsing.
He is looking for something: searching.
When the rare passers-by approaches, his eyes glaze over
as if he were looking past them.
Within himself, he has built a fortress.
A monument, from where he can elevate to the heights and observe.
Beyond its walls lies a forest fire.
A conflagration that could warm the world if he tried.
Damaging no one except perhaps himself.
In a small outpost stationed near the alley-way,
is a place where the tiny figure sometimes liked to retreat.
A slum, where a vast array of junk became his own little paradise.
Among it, was a small little radio he found.
Blaring in full details the signs of the times,
and the marvellous colors it uses to paint the world around it bleak.
Bobbing in and out of different frequencies, he sometimes finds it hard to stay afloat.
With all the tides of change around him, he has then tried to learn how to breathe underwater.
In this avenue, was a universe
slowly expanding, and carrying along with it, it's own merry band of anomalies.
Some day, he plans to build a home there
and hopefully share it with someone living around the same residence.
NO matter where we go, or who we are with...people like to "fake it til they make it." Even if that means at your expense. I generally think in today's society that it's filled with negative thoughts, progressions & perceptions. It is difficult as a positive person, to move about this sea of negativity but it is possible.
What makes this possible is creating your positive force field that constantly surrounds and protects you. You can create this force field of positivity by only having quality positive thoughts, perceptions and progressions. Once you get on your positive game...ain't nothing in this world that can stop your rise, shine & grind... Believe that! Not nobody, not even yourself.
Tbsp of Honesty, Integrity, Self-Love & 2 Tbsp of Positivity!
The Most Basic Recipe To Living a More Love-Filled Lifestyle:
1-Tbsp of Honesty
1-Tbsp of Integrity
1-Tbsp of Self-Love
2-Tbsp of Positivity
Everyday we wake up, the world is against us. It is against us because it is easier to be cynical, negative, loveless, rude, disrespectful, mean, selfish and hurtful. Every small piece of negativity in your life affects you. You might not realize or want to admit but it is true. When we allow even a small fraction of this crap to get into our minds, hearts, bodies, souls and spirits, we are giving ourselves the predisposition to fail. To fail at loving yourself and others is a failure too easy lost. But this failure is easily remediated by being honest with yourself about the quality of your thoughts and behavior.
Having integrity is to treat others with a moral compass pointed to true north, even when others are not around to hold you accountable. Self- Love comes when we stop being mean to ourselves/others through our insecure thoughts, opinions and self-deprecating talk. If we don't stop these having such negative perceptions/progressions they manifest themselves as: alcoholism, eating disorders, over/emotional eating, sexual promiscuity, narcissism, personality disorders, anxiety, depression, toxic lifestyles, toxic people...etc etc. Is that really "living?"
We must learn to care for the entireties of our bodies, minds, souls and spirits We must be vigilant about our emotional landscapes, understand where our emotions come from, if they are logical/valid, reassess our conditioned responses and recognize negative patterns of behavior in ourselves as well as others. Especially; those who we spent the most of our time with. Understand these changes do not happen overnight, they are things we must constantly work on (throughout our lives) as the threat of negativity is always imminent.
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No matter what I try, how I try, nothing ever really ends up the way I want. Nothing... no matter how much planning or thinking goes into it ... doesn't matter. Life works out the way it is supposed to.... whether we try to influence it positively and/or negatively.... it always works out how it was going to go .... I decided at this point in my life... if it is too painful to be around... then I don't want it in my life.... I will address whatever it is and do whatever I can to prevent anything from crippling me emotionally or mentally. No matter how ugly it looks... I will look at it in its face and then proceed to rip it's face off. Beast Mode.