Happy (belated) New Year!
For Fall 2011, I've applied for some tenure-track, academic jobs in my Ph.D. field of musicology (in which I worked part-time or full-time from 2001-08), and there are some pretty good possibilities. I'm also occasionally applying for some more immediate, suitable, entry-level jobs in software development, which is the field in which I studied and worked from September 2009 to August 2010.
In the meantime, I have some semi-relevant, part-time work I can do: researching and writing articles for the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (to which I also contributed circa 1990-91 and 2006-09: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/emc/index-e.html) and developing a web-based portfolio directory for the American Musicological Society (which is where I created a brand-new Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology web database this past summer: http://www.ams-net.org/ddm/). It's difficult, however, to get motivated to work on writing articles that reprise part-time work I've done in the past or on a part-time IT project that may not lead to anything else. There really are no permanent, full-time jobs available in "musicological IT," so I wish I had a better "Plan B."
In December, I did quite a bit of Christmas carolling quartet and church-service choral singing (mostly while house-sitting in Toronto), but now I'm temporarily living out in the country, north of Kitchener-Waterloo. Actually, choral singing was my original "Plan B," but even when I regularly sang in the Elora Festival Singers and in several church and other choirs (also mainly 2001-08), that was still only ever a part-time job.
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