Future

[Demon Eyes Kenshin]

I'm aware that this bulletin's been sitting here for a while, and I was about to post one like this. I went to see if anyone already posted one, and sure enough they did, so I couldn't turn it down. But anyway.

For my short term future, I'll more than likely change my concentration at school to guitar, earn my Associate's in Music, transfer to Appalachian State University for a Bachelor's in Science with a concentration in Audio Production/Recording and a minor in business. I had to sacrifice a VERY crucial class, that being music theory 2 for this coming semester (Spring '09) to take a trip to London and Paris. For one, I was personally invited by the teacher herself, and it's overseas! How could I turn that down? The only trade-off is that it'll hold me back one year since music theory 2 is only offered in spring semester, but hey. This is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, it'll be worth it. And also, learn as much as I can on guitar and piano (I started teaching myself some piano recently, gonna take a class next semester. It's required for music majors anyhow). And I'm gonna work on my sight-reading skills, because right now I suck horribly at it. I just recently started learning how to read sheet music after teaching myself everything by ear, so it's a different world. =P

As for long-term future, as of right now what I'm thinking is that I'll find a job somewhere at a recording studio after I get my degree, whether it'll be in North Carolina or not I don't know. I'd prefer it to be, but if I absolutely have to move to another state then so be it. Where I'll be exactly, I have no idea. But wherever I find my job, I'll gain years-worth of experience there, and whenever I feel like I have enough experience I'd love to open my own studio somewhere. Hopefully I'd be able to make good business there, but it would depend on the area I'm in. I'd find some others who'd be interested in running the place with me and have all of us pitch in to get it started.

And if the opportunity arose, I'd love to be in some sort of a progressive metal band as a side-job. I could record and produce our albums at my studio without having to pay hundreds of bucks to an engineer at another place. I'd also love to continue my current solo project there as well. I'm not sure whether some of you know about my MySpace profile I use for my music or not, if not that's cool. But it would be awesome to make a few full-length albums with my work, sort of like how Jari Maenpaa did with Wintersun before they became a full band. That's actually something I've always wanted to do for a long time, so I'd feel very accomplished after completing that.

And pretty much I just want to make enough to live a decent life. I understand there will be some trying times with all the management that has to be done and what not, but overall I just wanna have fun with my job and spend time with my future family. If I have kids one day I'll probably bring them to my studio occasionally and teach them some things about it and music. Of course I'm not going to force music on them, because who knows? They may want to be a pharmacist or something else for that matter one day. But I'd like to at least get them involved in it somehow, whether that be encouraging them to join the marching band or something along those lines. But however it turns out, I'm just gonna take life as it comes to me.

[Psychoku]

Oh fun. The future. You can never quite count on it, but often it surprises you with something better.

I imagine in the future I'll have multiple streams of income.

1. Some sort of supplement (perhaps along the lines of 5-Hour energy) that nets me 60k - 80k a month, all managed by a team in India who reports to me once a week during a 20 minute phone call.

2. Book sales. Never underestimate royalties on an international bestseller with a properly negotiated contract.

3. Song royalties. While working on some of those books I was introduced to a number of musicians who challenged me to song-writing. I had a go at it and helped them write multi-platinum singles. I don't worry about putting my name forward on the songs, it's more about the relationships with the artists, and of course the royalties.

4. Leveraged commodities. While searching for the ideal "office" that I could retreat to and pretend to do professional level work I ended up learning how to leverage commodity futures, and from that office began an entire firm. Of course, the commodities only resulted in earnings of several million/year. When we branched out into other securities we managed to bring several billion in assets under management.

5. You've probably seen my informercials on TV selling hair-products and lawnmowers.

And of course, that's just a sampling.

But aside from the riches, I've also managed a to get a JD/MBA from Georgetown, and then continue my studies at Oxford to get a PHD in some indecipherable field. I skipped out on Yale, Harvard, and Princeton despite being recruited and accepted.

Of course, my world travels, often resulting in 6 week - 6 month stays hays given me a healthy understanding of Spanish, French, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Farsi.

Did I mention the records for quickest solo-flight circumnavigating the globe, achieved with the sponsorship of Scaled Composites and the Virgin brand? And the one about the longest distance traveled in a balloon.

[Psychoku]

Of course, I forgot to mention my inter-galactic outpost, first anchored to the moon while we developed self-sustaining energy generation. This was achieved when someone referenced a few archaic writing of Nicola Tesla. We then began the first true manned exploration of the solar system.

[Iiro]

Sounds like you've got some big plans. While you're up there, don't forget your old pals at EAF.

For the first time, I have a pretty clear goal of what I want to do to finish up college and a clear plan for making that happen. This semester has shown me what I want to do and have by letting me do/have it.

I'm going to study abroad spring of my junior year. Save any catastrophe that prevents such a trip, I will be going to Prague. According to my advisor, it's a big center for tech theater, which is what I'm going into. And although I don't know much about the city, I'll be learning a lot more over the coming year. With what I know now, it seems like the kind of place you need to spend a couple of months in to really appreciate the city.

After next semester, where I'll be taking three Theater classes and an English class I need for my theater major, I only have two general education requirements, four classes I need to take for my major, and four classes I need to take for my minor in linguistics, which might become a major if I can figure the scheduling out. And there might be some overlap. But as it stands, that's ten classes in two years (minus a semester if you don't count study abroad) as opposed to a full schedule of 16. I feel good that I'm in a position where I can really decide where I want to go and what I'm interested in without having to worry about taking classes that are terrible, just because I have to.

After living with four guy friends in the nicest dorm on campus, pretty much any housing I get next year will be disappointing. With studying abroad, however, there's no way I can get any kind of lease on an apartment. So I'll suffer through living on campus for one more semester, but senior year I will be living off campus and, save any huge falling out, I know who I'll be sharing that apartment with, because there's no way in hell I want to live alone. At least not right now.

As far as after college, I'm passing on grad school, which is apparently "the new college" according to someone on campus. I want to become a scene shop carpenter in a theater in the Twin Cities or surrounding area. If everything works out, I'd like to continue living with the same person, who is also going to be a theater major, but with an emphasis in acting. Don't really have my sights set on any major positions in a theater as a designer or director, though it might happen considering just how many theaters there are in the area.

I will have a dog as soon as I can.