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Congrats and best to you for reaching out. Two thoughts. I work with and have a good friend who followed similar trajectory- serious touring musician, show pro
by jonahbenton 4y ago
Congrats and best to you for reaching out. Two thoughts.
I work with and have a good friend who followed similar trajectory- serious touring musician, show producer, etc for many years, now we work together in tech. He's a project manager. He's fantastic. Half of PMing is logistics and half is personalities. If you have produced, you have done both. The terminology in tech you will have to acquire- the artifacts/objects/roles, the process (agile/scrum/etc), and the tools (jira, github, etc). Whether you do that through self-teaching, classes, certifications depends on how you learn- but I suspect what will best is to find a way to shadow a team. You will learn more in a month from sitting in, asking questions, then following up with research than from any other activity. So if you have any friends in tech on whom you can impose yourself to let you listen in- highly, highly recommend doing that.
Second point. There is a somewhat controversial movement in tech loosely known as "web3". If you have seen talk of "NFTs" or "crypto" these are adjacent. Some people hate it and attribute climate change, fraud and other evils to it. Others do not. If you are someone who would not, there is a burgeoning subfield impacting music. It is NOT stable, but there are lots of interesting and rewarding conversations for people whose experience spans the machinery both of music production and technology implementation.
Best wishes again, seriously. Love your energy in reaching out and am sure things will go well for you.
- addajones 4y agoThanks so so much for your mentioning of PM tools used and sharing having a musician you work with who made a similar type of transition! That sounds like a very exciting path. Just like I did in my teen years shadowing in recording studios and learning the process start to finish, I won’t be shy and go forward to shadow with teams in tech. I’ll go through my contacts and see if I can find any tech-related contacts. Highly appreciated. Thanks again Jonah.