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Justifying aspirations
It was yet another day speaking with a newly hired state-funded service provider. She had asked me several questions regarding my interests and background. I had shared my educational background and sent links to my GitHub and SoundCloud accounts, taking great care to highlight my interest in audio technology and how that intersected with my artistic voice and aspirations. I had also talked about having just finished up a gig writing a whole album’s worth of music as an independent contractor for a very large and well-known media conglomerate that had repeatedly hired me and how I was expecting a check soon, and eventually, possibly some royalties.
“But what about employment?”, she then asked.
I had again been reminded just how growing up in a family of entertainment industry professionals and entrepreneurs had shaped my views regarding work, particularly what it actually consists of, and how fortunate I was to not have ever had this kind of…
