It’s the end of summer, and I am scheduling my last few piano students into their slots for the fall. Invariably, over the summer, there has been some attrition. There always is, especially when kids turn about 14. Sometimes, the kid can be encouraged to continue, but too often the parent has lost the stomach for the continued [...]
Posts Tagged ‘linkedin’
Creative Careers: The Invisible Barrier to Entry
Posted in Freelancing, Musing on Creativity, tagged balancing your work life, Business of freelancing, creative karma, linkedin on August 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Irony in the Teaching Trenches
Posted in Music, Performing, Teaching, tagged linkedin, van cliburn competition on June 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve had the giggles this week, especially while teaching. It all started with the electrifying performances at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (www.cliburn.tv). The poise of these young performers is almost unbelievable, and their death-defying acts of pianism are inspiring, amazing, exciting, and rejuvenating. I can’t tell you how many times in the last few days I’ve [...]
Finding Balance as a Freelancer
Posted in Freelancing, tagged linkedin on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the predictable and seemingly unavoidable side-effects of being a freelancer is that work comes in waves and spurts, priorities get hijacked, new enthusiasms take over, and balance can be hard to find. This blog has been a casualty of that lately. In this economy, certainly, no freelancer/self employed creative can complain about having too [...]