I have so little to say tonight. I have finally figgered out after MANY MANY MANY years that I am a systems analyst. I’ve been calling myself that for a long time but have only in the last few years figgered out what I actually doooo for a living.

Today (or recently) I was thinking about my college years. I was a music major. I was very good at my instrument (the flute) and not all that bad at the piano but I always considered that my second instrument. I was better at the dern flute. My parents didn’t give me any crap for being a music major. I am gonna guess that they knew that I would either find my way into a career via music or find something else to do.

OF COURSE I found something else to do. Music? I do not have the right personality to be a teacher or a performer. I can do performance but jeebus it is so hard to find a good performance job. Teaching? I can coach people who are already apt students. I do it in my current job sometimes. You do not want me around your sweet little beginners.

I am an analyst. I could have been a musicologist or a theorist. Those would have required an advanced degree and whatever baggage that might entail and it would *still* be hard to find a decent job. Instead I fell backwards into an entry-level IT job and eventually worked my way into a position with “analyst” in the title. Nowadays I am a business systems analyst, which probably didn’t exist when I started college. What do I do? I’m not sure I could describe it if I tried but somehow it fits and my early experiences with music absolutely prepared me for it.

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