Last Friday I was told that I was being laid off from my job because they are going to combine the job I am currently doing with another co-worker's, and I am welcome to apply for the new job that will be posted in 2-3, maybe 4 weeks. This "new job" will not include hosting classical music from Noon-3pm. In fact, the machinations behind this decision are gruesome to say the least, and simply unfair. I'll be happy to give you the details privately. Just email me.
In my six-year tenure at WABE, I have produced countless interviews, created an internship program and nurtured three interns, created The Art of Song (which involves script writing and all digital production), masterminded Opera Classics, and so much more. All of this was way above and beyond my simple job description and salary, and my reward for all of this hard work: You're Fired. Not because I am incompetent, but the opposite.
I find it hard to say good-bye because I have loved this job so much, getting to touch people's lives with the beauty of classical music and hopefully helping them to love it as much as I do. Since the age of 6 I have known that I wanted to be a teacher, and my job was the perfect realization of a dream. Now the dream must change, but I'm not ready yet. I will continue to make music, but now will share it with thousands fewer people. It makes me sad. Good-byes are hard.
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Yes they are. And the involuntary kind are among the hardest. I'm thinking of you...
I know..this was a great job for you, and it warms us to hear that the educational part was so important to you.
Go be a teacher! This is an infomercial for college teaching. Of course, I'm biased in favor of a gig that was perfect for me, but I have a feeling that it will be for you as well.
Yep..even near-grownups can be jerks...but the chances are you'll develop life-long relationships with young people who actually thought a lot of you. Nothing better.
The profession feeds our need to share what we know and love, and it satisfies, in part, that urge that some of us have to get in front of a group of people and blather and in general ham it up.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that."
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