back to reality
In celebration of the start of the weekend, and the free rein to do whatever-the-heck-I-want and still have time for other stuff later, I allowed myself to play the latest incarnation of Harvest Moon on my DS pretty much all last night, and all this morning. Now my brain is screwed up because I have that game-mindset of running around and completing tasks and fighting monsters and such.
But you know you've been playing too much nintendo when you start seeing life as a video game... well, I guess it's not THAT weird with a game like Harvest Moon or The Sims, 'cause in the game you buy stuff for your house, make friends, care for animals, etc--all stuff you do in real life... except in a game it's a lot faster paced, and "making money" doesn't require any real work on your part. :P
hey by the way, is it "free rein" or "free reign"? "Free rein" makes sense to me, 'cause of horseback riding, but "free reign" would also be logical. Hmmmm.
It's still far too soon to be making any decisions, but after thinking over my work/living situation next year, I am pretty sure the front-running option is to do a home-study course while I'm staying in NH, which will help me get to the point where I can take the tests to become a Registered Piano Technician. At the same time, I'll hold some sort of part-time job to save up some cash... By the time I'm an RPT I should have a better idea where I want to go, and having that title should make it easier for me to find a job, and/or work as a tuner/technician independently. And if a good opportunity to move/work comes up before I get the RPT certification, I can take my home-study course with me and keep at it. The piano tech school in Boston sounds somewhat appealing, but it'd be a one or two year commitment (two for advanced stuff like rebuilding, which I already do a bunch of in my current job), and I'm sure much more expensive than a home-study course (especially since I won't have to pay rent in an expensive area with that). I've gotten a lot of hands-on, supervised experience, and I can always continue to take workshops/classes and network with other technicians so that I'm not operating in a little bubble. The home-study course I'm looking at looks really extensive, anyway--for tuning, for example, you send in recordings of your tunings to be critiqued, so you aren't just relying on yourself to judge how well you've done.
Randy Potter School of Piano Technology
OK, that's all for now. I got stuff to do, and I gotta go procrastinate first. heh.
But you know you've been playing too much nintendo when you start seeing life as a video game... well, I guess it's not THAT weird with a game like Harvest Moon or The Sims, 'cause in the game you buy stuff for your house, make friends, care for animals, etc--all stuff you do in real life... except in a game it's a lot faster paced, and "making money" doesn't require any real work on your part. :P
hey by the way, is it "free rein" or "free reign"? "Free rein" makes sense to me, 'cause of horseback riding, but "free reign" would also be logical. Hmmmm.
It's still far too soon to be making any decisions, but after thinking over my work/living situation next year, I am pretty sure the front-running option is to do a home-study course while I'm staying in NH, which will help me get to the point where I can take the tests to become a Registered Piano Technician. At the same time, I'll hold some sort of part-time job to save up some cash... By the time I'm an RPT I should have a better idea where I want to go, and having that title should make it easier for me to find a job, and/or work as a tuner/technician independently. And if a good opportunity to move/work comes up before I get the RPT certification, I can take my home-study course with me and keep at it. The piano tech school in Boston sounds somewhat appealing, but it'd be a one or two year commitment (two for advanced stuff like rebuilding, which I already do a bunch of in my current job), and I'm sure much more expensive than a home-study course (especially since I won't have to pay rent in an expensive area with that). I've gotten a lot of hands-on, supervised experience, and I can always continue to take workshops/classes and network with other technicians so that I'm not operating in a little bubble. The home-study course I'm looking at looks really extensive, anyway--for tuning, for example, you send in recordings of your tunings to be critiqued, so you aren't just relying on yourself to judge how well you've done.
Randy Potter School of Piano Technology
OK, that's all for now. I got stuff to do, and I gotta go procrastinate first. heh.