Hi everyone, I am posting about my future and what I want to do and what is put on the table for me.
To start off, I am presented with currently 4 options for me at the moment as a sophomore in High school.
- Religious life
- Music school
- Engineering/computer Science
- building guitars, becoming a tech or working at PRS.
As you can see, I am very confused. I have been giving thought to contacting Paul personally asking for advice about my future. You see, I really want to work at PRS and build guitars, but I want to also do a lot of other things, and those things could fetch me a very good salary.
I am currently 15 years old and I am mainly focusing on school. But what do I do after? I like guitars and I want to build them. I could go to music school and get a music degree and possibly teach. I could go to a luthiery school and work from there at PRS or just become and engineer.
Now Paul is my biggest inspiration. He started something so great and I would love to carry his legacy on. I've been told to contact him for advice, but I am confused on what to contact him about? Like I want to build guitars, but there are so many different things I love doing.
What would seem like a good path for me? And would it be worth contacting Paul asking for advice?[/QUOTE
I would go number 3. That will open the door for many things. Maybe even give you the knowledge to build guitars after you are educated. I took piano lessons from an awesome concert trained piano teacher. He teaches at an awesome college in town, has his doctorate in music, and runs the piano study program at the college as a professor. He also went to Julliard music school, and went to Curtis school of music. Two of the top music conservatory's in the world. He earned degrees and had scholarships with some of finest concert players in the world. One being Leon Flesher. Everyone in his family was super smart, as is he, but took other paths. They are good musicians as well, but didn't do it as a profession like he did. He said if he had to do it over again, he would have done the same to make more of a living. That music is so hard to make it at for the work people put into it. Unless you are the one in a 100 thousand with a gift, and that still doesn't guarantee an illustrious career. And unless you absolutely love it so much and don't care about possible struggles for the work you put into it. Do what you have to do!