Personal Essay
I Invested In A Fancy Education I Never Intended To Use
It’s never a waste to pursue a weird passion
With the soaring costs of higher learning it may sound idiotic to invest in a post secondary education that you never intend to pursue as a career.
Why would someone pay for college, university, or technical school if they have no intention of working in their field of study?
Twenty-five years ago, I pulled this absurd stunt and the only logical reason for it was sheer interest.
You know when you see something intriguing — like a new product, a piece of art, a brilliant creation — and you really want to know how they made it?
That was me with music.
Any time I listened to a piece of music, I was less interested in the collective sound of the song, and more interested in the individual intricacies of it. I wanted to know how they created it, recorded it, and how it was all put together.
I wanted to know so badly that I started looking for schools where I could learn it.
Back in the 90s this was no easy feat for a Canadian. At that time the only two cities in Canada that even came close to offering an education in the entertainment industry were…
