Sunday, November 4, 2007

TFISS

I have the greatest job in the world right now and it's making me think about what I want to do with the rest of my life.

I get paid $50 an hour to sit at a piano and make up silly music for silly little scenes that are going on in front of me. I genuinely can't think of anything better I could possibly do – except if I had more hours I guess.

So I got to thinking – I would actually do this for the rest of my life if it were an option. It's not, but something like it could be. I want to write music for a living. Now, to do that I'll have to go back to some kind of school. Probably not undergrad again, but I need to learn instrumentation and counterpoint and all that good stuff. It'll be hard and demanding and uncertain, if it's even possible, and I have no idea how the hell I'd do it...

...but right now, feeling the rush of work that I actually love for the first time, I don't think I have any other choice.