Career Planniing

I'm very interested in pursuing a career in the music industry.  I know it sounds cliche due to the fact that everyone in the mother is a "rapper" or an "artist" which is a term I don't like use loosely to describe some of these people.  For the next five years my three career objectives would be to become a certified audio engineer, intern at a record label and become an A&R.

My personal strengths that would allow me to obtain these goals is my ambition and passion.  The fact that I know what I want to do and have begun to achieve some of these careers has placed me in a great position. I have audio engineering on my own for about a year, I took the liberty to learn on my own by reading books and watching tutorials online.  I was able to save up money and buy the equipment necessary to allow me to engineer audio.  I take several hours of my day to sit down and navigate the system in or to familiarize myself with the program.  Another strength of mine is the ability to learn quick and adapt.  I was using another program and was introduced to a new more advance program with more capabilities than the one I was familiar with.  I've gotten a lot of good review from individuals who audio engineering for a living along with recommendations on how I can better myself.  These strengths will allow me to reach my career goal and excel in what I want to do in life.

As a human being no one is perfect and with many strengths will be several weaknesses.  Personally, my main weakness that some times prevents me from giving my 100% into what I love doing is procrastination.  At times I feel myself doing any and everything that has nothing to do with what my goal entails.  I find my self slipping away and digressing from the matter at hand.  A lot of times it has to do with amount of things I have to do during the day.  For example, going to school, working, studying, making music, at times I feel as if time isn't on my side and there isn't enough of it to do what I truly enjoy doing.  I stay up extra late at night to compensate, but I end up paying the consequence when I'm exhausted in the morning.  Prioritizing and time management are just a few things I can improve as well.

Action Plan

Audio Engineer

-Graduate College

-Enroll in A.I

-Complete Audio Courses

-Obtain Certification

Intern At Record Label

-Enroll in music clubs

-Submit Resume to labels

-Obtain position

-Work to get a job after graduation

A&R (Artist and Repertoire) 

-Work my way up from entry level

-innovate and create new ideas
-scout varies talents
-present them to execs
-Obtain position as A&R at label