Almost two months since the day when I became a "future ex" marketing director. The first few weeks were difficult enough, actually much more than what I would have expected. I guess however cool you want to appear about your work, it still hurts deep inside when someone comes along and seems to view everything you have done as useless.
Well good ridance, you have bought yourself a new toy, up to you to break it if you want. But don't come running back to mama afterwards.
So, enough of the mourning, time to pick up the pieces and get moving. There is a new life waiting for me just around the corner. I only need to be able to put the pieces in the right order:
- PLAN A - clearly my heart tells me this is the perfect opportunity to finally focus on making music. I'm exactly at the point where I'm young enough to give it a shot and old enough to have nothing much left to prove. But my head is saying "Huh, huh, even if you have talent, do you really think you can live from this ?".
- PLAN B - which brings us to plan B. I'm realistic enough to know that making money from music will take time (if ever) and I need to find some paied activities besides. Setting myself up as marketing consultant is one obvious direction: I have the experience, I have the contacts, all I need to make sure is that it does not end up taking all of my time.
- PLAN C - in addition to freelance consultant, another thing I was always interested in would be teaching. In this case, I could relatively easily teach marketing in universities, I certainly feel I have a few things to share with students. Good thing: it would still leave me time for music. Bad thing: obviously not the quickest way to get rich.
So here you are: I have a few aces up my sleeve and I will try to build myself a new life starting from these. The toughest will be to find the time, keep the momentum when things start to look grim and find the right balance between the different pieces.
And in truth, what is the worse that can happen ?
As the (self made) Chinese say goes: "if you aim for the stars, the worst that might happen is that you end up on the moon".
