Electronic
music Production
simon
Adair
06/11/2014
PPD
Professional
development plan medium and long term
As my
short term goals are being met and will do for the rest of the
academic year I will look at the motivation behind them which are my
medium and long term goals.
The
difference between the two is a matter of years. Short term can be
anything between and week and a year. I refrained from creating a
short term target very week as this just seemed like to much
micro-goals such as; Create a kick drum, get the weekly shop, pet the
cat, etc.
Instead
I focused on the things that would take a month or so to plan and
complete.
Medium
term: 1-3 yrs
My
plans for the next few years are to finally complete my academic
career in music technology. It's been a long haul but I am a
completionist at heart. Also I genuinely want to know everything
about music production and have turned my fear of studio
hardware/software interfaces into a love. This Is my 'bread and
butter' and will help me find internships and work with others in
unfamiliar but technically familiar environments.
To
develop my skills and my networking capabilities further I will be
working independently as a side line on my musical alias and may do
gigs with my collaborative contacts. I want to get to the point where
I am past breaking even and making a minor profit. To tie in with
that I will go into label development with my colleagues as this will
help with self promotion and to help legitimise my work and digital
output to self employed status.
Although
I would love to get studio work as a living and become an employee or
even do mastering work on a commission basis, I ultimately want to be
my own boss, self employed. As a firm believer in equality and with a
moral hatred of hierarchy, self employment and a degree of self
actualisation is what I am and will be working towards within the
foreseeable future.
By
being self employed or doing commission work I plan on getting my
first mortgage. Time is ticking and I very much need to get on the
.property ladder' within the next three years.
This
in turn will improve my personal capital and status within our fickle
society.
Long
term: 3-10 yrs
If
all goes to plan with my short and medium term plans I will have
generated enough capital and economic freedom to pay off my student
loans and begin my plans to emigrate.
I
dislike the idea of creating 'brain drain' but I have, for many years
now, wanted to emigrate. Its been an innate drive to escape the
mundane.
After
3 years of personal development and hopefully some employment, I will
be able to look into taking my mastering and production skills and
exporting them to more 'fertile soil'.
Also
within that 3 years I hope to have developed my own label and network
and become a 'go-to' guy for my particular audio engineering skills
as well as an anchor for a budding breakcore and noise scene within
Newcastle.
I
have absolutely no interest in moving to London. Contrary to my long
term ambition of emigrating, I am a staunch believer and supporter of
Localist economics. My creative roots are and always will be in the
the North.
Also
within ten years time, London will be a seething mass of religious,
economic and societal hatred and degeneration. It will cease to
function.
After
contributing and developing myself and the cultural scene within
Newcastle over the next ten years I hope to have enough capital to
find Studio work in Canada and settle down there. Most likely in
Toronto where there is a growth in the music industry.
