Rock my career!!!

This week the topic of my blog entry relates to the basic idea in my first post: I’d like to check the web again for new ideas on my dream job.

Aside from travelling another big passion of mine is music – especially rock music. Now you’re probably thinking:

“Well, that’s easy, just grab an instrument, go out there and play – welcome to your dream job!”

Good idea – there is just one problem: Unfortunately god didn’t mean to support my plans and so I wasn’t blessed with even a teeny-weenie bit of musical talent.

Anyhow this couldn’t reduce my love for music and so I’m searching for other ways to get involved in the music business.

At this point I don’t want to focus on the “usual suspects” such as (illegal) music downloads in the web or online ticket shops which are basically the first things that came to my mind when I started thinking about the modern music business.

I’m rather trying to find out what rock-music means to others, to those who actually make it and represent the values that are fascinating me so much. I am hoping to find out where their passion for this music comes from and thus how in their opinion music influences society and even economy.

Searching for interesting facts on Google I expeditiously found a quote from Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of “Nirvana”, characterising his image of punk rock:

“Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘Nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.”
Kurt Cobain

 

Career vs. Fun – an impossible combination?!

When I started thinking about a topic to post on this blog I suddenly remembered one situation:

Not long ago I had met a lawyer at a seminar in Magdeburg. He was a man in his mid-thirties who had successfully completed his studies in business and law. We had a conversation about studying, working and making one’s career.

He told me about how he had made his way through various numb and dry lawyer jobs until he finally found his dream job as a lawyer in a big opera house. The great thing about this job was – as he told me – that he could finally do what he had ever wanted: Combine his hobbies and personal interest with his career.

We had a really interesting conversation and in the end his message was clear: If you really want to be happy and successful at your job you have to love and enjoy what you are doing. He recommended me never to forget what I really like and to find a way to link my interests with my career.

This kept me thinking. What is it that I really like in life, even if I would be confronted with it every single day at work? How can I combine those interests with my future career plans? And what could this possibly have to do with a combination of business and IT?