Why You Shouldn’t Major in Music

If there is anything I have learned in college, it is this;

The music education major is a monster that attacks by surprise. At first, it seems like a manageable beast, encouraged by friends and family who fawn over your (often mediocre) musical abilities. And then, once it’s sure you’ve swallowed the bait, it devours your very soul. All your time, gone. All your energy, depleted. You spend your days locked in a claustrophobic practice room, studying scores, going to recitals, your nights up trying to understand music theory. Your life is completely enslaved to music. You must surrender to it, or face the humiliation of switching to a much easier, but less profound major. Business. Communciation. Basically, anything else.

I don’t even have time to be writing, but I wanted to explain the great lapses of time in-between posts. (Even though I am really the only one who reads this insignificant blog.) I guess I needed to explain this to myself. Yes, self, you are working hard. Maybe one day you will earn a low-paying public teaching job with good health insurance and summers off. Keep that in mind as you pass out on your piano night after night.

It’s worth it.

Until next time, I will be here;

In the month I will be done and knitting again.