A Daily Dose, Hopefully! But Probably Not.

I am going to attempt to post something new on my blog...

EVERY

SINGLE

DAY!!!!!

Knowing me, I'll probably fail within the first few days, but in the very least, this non-binding self-contract will perhaps drive me to write 4 blog posts a week or so, which would be nice!

I'd like to steer away from the blog posts that just kind of update you on what I did today or what book I'm reading or things like that, just because it's not my style.  I'm a bit too longwinded for that.

To begin this blogsapalooza, I will talk about my job.

I've taken a new job with a place called Music Industry Workshop, a company based out of Chicago.  Check the link!

And what I do, is hang out at Guitar Center stores, because the place I work for has a partnership with them, and I tell people about our programs, courses, and free clinics we offer.  So throughout the course of my workday, I meet anywhere from 50-100 new faces and get to talk to them a bit about their goals and aspirations, and it's a really fun job.

I'm a big blogger for dreams.  I think that at a certain point in everyone's life, they come to a juncture where they either pursue their dream or they abandon it.  I'm here to try and dissuade everybody from abandoning their dreams.  There are some cases where I think dreams are better off abandoned, like if you're becoming a parent or needing to work three jobs or something like that.  But for the most part, I'd like to see a world where people pursue their dreams more often.

Working at my job I get to see all sorts of people who are pursuing, in some degree, their musical dreams.  Everyone from the group of guys who play in a band together, shopping for some new stage equipment, to the guy who's 50 years old, buying some recording equipment because he's decided it's time to put his originals on wax.  Or plastic, or hard drive. You know.

It's a good work environment for someone like myself who is kind of feeling the pressure to either go for my dream or give it up.  It reminds me that it's all very real, and a decision will have to come sooner or later.  This is good I think, because it can be very easy to regard your dreams as unreal, truly as just 'dreams'.  And if you just think your dreams are imaginative wisp clouds, you'll spend as much time talking yourself out of grasping for them as society does already.

And P.S., I'm abandoning the song lyric title rule.  I've spent, in some cases, as much time deciding on a befitting title as I have on the post it concerns.  If one comes up in my noggin, I'll take it, but otherwise, I'm going to keep it simple.  Back to the basics, if you will.