2008 (25y.o.):
-Study and Excell in BIRT program => Yes, I learned my ass off, but i have yet to learn how to be a gracious student, more learning to come.
-Enjoy the city. Loved the city, still in love with it frankly, love benaroya hall where i volnteered, loved the hills and the plants i walked through on my way to school each day, i loved the mountains, i loved the clubs, neumos and soup and salad and beer at The Virginia Inn on a crisp solitary evening. I even loved the busride.
-Make 2 good friends here in seattle => Anna and Michael
-Practice Udvareta => not so much with that… although i have become the (metaphorical) jasmine and finally gotten beyond my last relationship, and well… it took longer than i expected, since i think it only just happened last night. a year later.
-Observe Budget => Hapilly spent all the money i had, but i did work as much as was possible so that helped me scrape by
-Research Places I’d like to work => Read Richard Florida’s ‘Who’s your city’ Found out that i’d like to live in lots of places, in fact that i WANT to live in lots of places, or more acurately lots of environments, i want to move through the world and understand it. I want to be inspired by as many people and places I can in this life. I am living and loving Vancouver BC right now and i need to stay here for a few years at minimum to get my career started.
-1 or more Calls for Entry for arts career. => wrote two articles for the Metal Arts Guild Magazine which i feel was a good transitional move for my arts career.
2009 (26 y.o.):
-Graduate in top 10% of class =>‘yo yo yo!’ My instructors told me that they would support my potential job of opening a brand new shop on my own, they trusted me to go it alone, and to do a good job.
-Find a job in an exciting new place.=> Vancouver, pretty cool, Possibly the best job in the country for an entry level tech because the company is nationwide what looks better than that on a resume! I am fantastically lucky on this one.
-Apply to instrument builders as well as repair-ers => looking into builders etc. for the future ie: Rath Trombones.
-Practice Udhvareta/date platonically => hmm…
-Observe Budget => livin on the cheap and saving 50% of what i make counts!
-Keep up with friends and famliy (letters/phone)
-1 or more Calls for entry for arts career
-Settle for at least a year (two!)
-Plan Loan repayment
-Live as frugally as possible (yes!)
REVISED 5 year:
2010 (27 y.o.):
-prepare stay put for another year, build a home
-Build a new portfolio of work and a personal artistic style
-build a reputation as a good new technician by practicing patience, care and open mindedness.
-Take refuge in the Buddha, the Sanga and the Dharma
-Visit with Family whenever possible
-Apply for 2 calls as a motivator to complete new work
-Have a pet
-Be open to relationships
2011 (28 y.o.):
-Find Home and plan to move there
-Pay down loans AND have a life (80% debt free)
-Love my job
-Keep learning (Grad School?)
-Open RRSP/401k
-Apply to artists residency or solo show!
2012 (29 y.o.):
-live somewhere
-Be debt free
-Evolve your own craft process by teaching a course or becoming involved in a community project
-look at taking on a new challenge by starting own business or taking over an existing shop
2013 (30 y.o.):
-Be established in your community and field, have a safe place from which to take wonderful risks!
-Make a commitment to a partner or child and stand behind it, if it hasn’t already come up.
-Find a way of keeping up with the ladies, they are wonderful and important people in your life no matter where everyone is living!
