Thursday, February 10, 2011

Am I doomed to a life of licking envelopes and sorting?

I turn 26 next week and as I slowly say goodbye to my "early twenties", I feel like I've been more or less running in place for the past few years.

I've finished my masters, but it was in just as useless a degree (ethnomusicology) as my undergrad (music performance). Unqualified for any job more complicated than admin assistant, I rejoiced at scoring my internship at a world music magazine. I love writing and I love world music. I seemed to finally be making headway. But alas, after finishing one month of a three month internship, I'm panicking once again. I will not be able to stay at the magazine and forge a career, but rather will have to find another job. The world, unfortuatnely, is not full of world music magazines and I'm at a loss of where to go next.

I could try to look for a publishing job, but I do not feel qualified having no journalism experience beyond my blogging and only a partially completed internship at a small magazine. Plus, I am not sure I want to leave the world music industry. I love going to concerts, hearing new music fresh off the press, and being generally involved in the music scene.

However, without another world music magazine to go to, I end up just as unqualified for anything as before the internship.

I have tried applying for a PhD (in ethnomusicology), but I think I'm just once again postponing this "unqualified" feeling as it is near impossible to become a lecturer (the only thing such a degree qualifies you for) afterwards.

So... A) does anyone have any suggestions and B) is anyone interested in hiring me for a job that requires more skill than licking envelopes?

1 comments:

  1. http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/jobs

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