developement plan long term

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.