The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love by Ken Coleman

Author:Ken Coleman [Coleman, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ramsey Press
Published: 2019-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

THE CULTURE OF A PROFESSION

Finding a place you can learn will give you access to the culture of a profession. What do I mean by that? The culture of a profession is simply all the things that make up a workplace: the people, the mission of the place, employees’ attitudes and the way they work together, the company morale, even down to the feel of the place when you walk in. Gaining access to a company’s culture can help you clearly understand how what you want to do fits into the industry as a whole. As you learn about a role you are interested in, this will either confirm your direction or push you to change direction to a role you are better suited for.

My friend Zoe knew she wanted to work in the A&R (artists and repertoire) department at a record company. It’s what she’d studied for in school. She made phone calls and knocked on doors until she found an internship on Music Row in Nashville. In her time there, she picked up on the culture of the company: how people dressed, how they talked, how they divided responsibilities. In fact, she discovered that the role of an A&R person was different at a small record label than from what she’d learned in her college classes. Zoe’s place to learn equipped her to understand the culture of the industry enough to land her first job!

And in some ways, my first broadcasting internship at the local sports talk radio station in Atlanta taught me similar things. I poured coffee for the radio hosts and looked up things on YouTube for them while they did their show. I didn’t play a huge role, I never sat behind a microphone, and I didn’t get paid a dime, but I was able to observe, learn, and get a much-needed perspective. I went from being a complete outsider to knowing the lingo and the culture. This is what a place to learn can offer you on your climb, and that’s why this stage is so important.

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