Hey guys!
some of you may/may not have gathered that i was the manager/tech/teacher/overall do it all guy for a small music store located in Riviere-Du-Loup, QC, Canada (quite a lovely city if i might say so!). i've been doing my thing for 7 years thus far and have had a blast. though i've recently gotten a phone call with an opportunity for working way up in northern quebec. well paid, no expenses at all while staying there.
i'm on a 28 days of work, 14 days off schedule. basically i'll be assistant manager to the dorms where the workers/miners stay at for several of Arcelor Mittal's Iron ore mining sites. and since i speak english (my area is native french so good english speakers and writers are a rarity and well taken care of usually) and i'm young, upper management has plans to train me to eventually become a project manager. it all seems quite big but i'm a guy who's always up for a challenge.
really big change from the music industry but i felt this was quite the right time for a change like this, no missus since a few months, the M.I. retail landscape changing quite severly and maybe i was just becoming jaded with all the constant 'music store' attitude alot of customers have first coming into the store. what i'll miss the most however is all the communication with the suppliers and students too. at my peak i gave 20 lessons a week! did alot of the guitar teching and wiring and amplifier biasing too. it was fun, but at 25, you think about the future, and a job opportunity like this doesn't happen very often in a lifetime.
yes this feels very much like a blog post, but any of you guys work in M.I. for a while and feel like this is just a strange and yet exciting industry? i'll miss it very much, but some aspects i definitely won't miss!
i'll be able to buy expensive guitars like mr Twinfan now XD
and here's how far i'll be:
Mount-Wright, located near Fermont, QC
