Rock star = plan A. Dentist = plan B. You can't just choose to be a rock star but you can to be a dentist. However, if you put your effort into plan B then you wouldn't have the time for plan A, and plan A is your passion. What'd ya do?
2007-01-11 07:34:27 · 17 answers · asked by felix 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Years ago, people told me that if I wanted to be a writer, I should have something to fall back on. I spent most of my college years and a few years after that looking for something to fall back on, and when I finally did fall back it was into the skills I learned as a writer, and now I make a living editing things I would never read otherwise.
If music is your passion--and I mean the music, not the fame or the money or the groupies--then my advice to you is to give the music everything you've got, but pay attention to social skills and networking, too. If you put the time in to become the best musician you can be, then even if you never become a rock star you can make a living performing in bars or recording advertising jingles. Heck, I once went to Aruba for a friend's wedding, and all over the place I saw American musicians playing American music for the tourists. In Aruba. Obviously, none of them were stars, but what an amazing plan b!
2007-01-11 07:48:01 · answer #1 · answered by thunderpigeon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life can take a drastic, tragic turn in the time of a coin toss or drop of a hat. Treat it accordingly. Plan A and Plan B seem incompatible, out of character, in psychological make-up. Take another look at what it is you want and what you are. Can you define it [yourself]; age, experience, background. The why and what of what you want? No one has the responsibility of choice other than you. Perhaps not exactly relevant, but I give you an Auguste Rodin quote~ perhaps you have seen his sculpture The Thinker:
"It is impossible to exercise two professions at once. All the activity that is expended in acquiring useful relations and in playing a role is lost to art. Intriguers are not fools; when an artist wishes to compete with them he must expend as much effort at they do, and he will have hardly any time left for work."
Researching yourself now is of great advantage rather than at sixty-some when nothing can be done except to accept what has passed. [edit: the following is only a facetious Plan A/B] Plan A: Gynecologist. Plan B: Dentist, At least both deal with apertures. Good luck and don't be swayed by others. It is, and most obviously, your life.
Intense immersion in a Plan A will often reveal an unexpected and often welcomed Plan B.
2007-01-11 09:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by ipygmalion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be a plan B for everything and everybody. You can go to be a Dentist and while you are in college take an elective in the field you are interested in , like voice or guitar, and join band or chorus. There will be plenty of your peers and professors to help you along or tell you you don't have a future as a rock star.
There are many future stars who will end up doing something different along the way. How many actors are doing comedy and want to do drama and vice versa. Many actors can sing, dance, play an instrument as well as act.
Remember the boy who played Willy Wonka in Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory??. He is now a Veterinarian in Northern New York. And he is happy.
Good Luck!
2007-01-11 07:52:41 · answer #3 · answered by nursienurse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Focus on your passion and see where it can take you. You can always go to school to become a dentist. Follow your heart if it doesn't pan out go with your head. Who knows down the road you might meet fellow dentists that want to start a rock band. Name your band "the Gold Fillings ".
Follow your dreams because if you don't, you'll wake up one day ten years from now and ask "if only I tried..."
2007-01-11 07:48:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! Why stop with a plan B? You may decide you hate college or hate not having free time. Take one of those aptitude tests (tickle.com has one) to see what you might be good at.
Besides, if you give up your "dream," there's always your kids to live vicariously through! Imagine having a dad that was the best drummer in all his kid's school. Or giving tutoring lessons for guitar and having a free-for-all every Saturday night with whoever showed up on your doorstep to play music into the wee hours of the night. I think most people's dreams turn into hobbies whereas their jobs just finance their hobbies.
2007-01-11 08:24:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pay bills and pursue plan A coz you will be happier doing what you love more than what you have to do to make ends meet, depending on what's more important, nice home or happy working day. Hard, but falling in Love is better than both if you ask me for NOW.
2007-01-11 13:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by lulu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never have a back up plan! Any focus on plan b is focus taken aways from your goal. Read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
2007-01-11 07:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by Maranzano 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First thing don't make plans as they never work out . But if you set out in life to have goals that will work. with a goal you can start small..You should anyways do what you feel is best for you
2007-01-12 01:44:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with having any kind of plan in life is that it never goes the way you plan.
2007-01-11 07:43:03 · answer #9 · answered by JR 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why should you work in a career that you don't love? wouldn't it be better and more fufilling to be a pauper but a rockstar? and by the way, plan b would suck because dentist have one of the highest suicide rates
2007-01-11 15:20:42 · answer #10 · answered by samson. IP 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋