Tuesday, January 23, 2018

I have to save $125.56 for 5 months, I think, to pay tuition to major in music at a community college, starting Fall 2018.  That's actually a very long time to wait.  I get $400 per month, so it may work out.  I'm not having to use that much money at the moment.  I can go to Disney World with $50 per visit, and I won't renew my pass in the Fall because of all the money I saved for school and how much time it takes.  I'll need the money maybe to eat when I go to school cuz I don't like regular home prepared sandwiches as of anymore now.  Yea, like $12 + tax per day to eat there maybe.  That's $192 + tax per month, rounded out.  I wonder how I will pay to go to a 4-year conservatory I went to before.  The yearly cost including things like room and board is $43,868.  I can apply for the federal and private loans.  My goal is to be a performer.  I wonder how far I will be able to go, tho, in level.  It says the following are career options from there:

Music educator
Chamber musician
Orchestral musician
Conductor
Music business executive
Arts administrator
Private teacher
Concert soloist

My violin teacher says it will take me at least 10 years before I can major in violin, but the community colleges will take anyone, I think even if they never played but I'm not sure.  It's not the same for state.  I wonder what that would mean for me.  I think I damaged the nerves in my arms and hands since I punched a hole in my wall by accident and then did more and hit my table later on when upset a number of times.  After the hole in my wall or so, my arms, hands, and fingers seem to blow up more poofy.  It's funny.  People who do music in grade school participate in performance right away, at least it seems.  It seems group string class, if a special class for strings is how they do it, is easier than one 1/2 hour private lesson a week, at least in my experience, as I described some about, because later I hurt my arms and hands.  Still, I bet the string class people play for an hour together a couple times a week.  They maybe go thru scales together and listen to each person get a turn.  It's longer than you might practice starting out and a fun way to learn.  I haven't mastered the vibrating yet, tho.  I'm not sure how that gets taught, as I only took class for 1 year as a college student.