If I were to describe this career, my ideal position would be to be a professor. This requires me to get a degree in music education. Since I do love teaching and i’m very good socially I think it’ll be a great choice. I would like to teach either a guitar course, or a music theory based course. Earning $69,000 is of course in the top 10% of careers as a music teacher and that’s for a professional or college level of teaching. I’m not exactly sure how to describe the career, as it’s pretty straight forward, though I’ll do my best to try to explain what I would want to do, the things I can do with it, as well as why I would do it.
My career choice for this project is Music Professor. It seems like the most sstable of jobs, though it is not as profitable as say, being a performer. Personally I have been a guitar teacher for a few years at the ripe young age of 20 years old and I can say that it’s an easy job to come by and an easy job to teach. At least, out of my own house I had around 5 students at a time come over and I would teach basics to them, such as reading music as well as theory on a small scale. It wasn’t hard to prepare for and I was making a small amount of money on the side of work and school. On a low scale, teaching music is simple, and able to be worked around any kind of schedule. Having previous knowledge of being a music teacher I can apply it to having a career in this field and I can’t imagine it would be too difficult. Having students that actually have passion to what they are learning would be so much better than teaching to students whose parents forced them to be there. I have spent numberous hours teaching to students who never practiced, messed around during a class, or simply didn’t want to be there. To be able to teach on a professional level would be awesome.
By doing it in a classroom, I would be able to implement difficult themes such as scales/keys as well as writing and reading musical notation. I would want the class to be more of hands on learning and learning how to play style class, meaning that it wouldn’t be a teach you how to use the guitar class, but explain common musical themes through the guitar, class. The way I learn best is physically, that being I can’t remember things if I read them, my reading comprehension skills are awful so I have never been a fan of book based music courses. Being able to work off of something audibly helped me learn guitar much easier then trying to learn the scales by book, instead I learned all of them by sound and matched those sounds to pieces that I was working on, or writing. That is how I would want this class to be shaped, by hands on learning.