dbjorck
12-29-2010, 08:07 AM
I'm a bad boy. It seems I forgot to introduce myself........... And I'm the biggest poster in here, over 1300 now... Tsk tsk tsk
Well here goes; I was born in Sweden, but we moved to the Netherlands when I was just a few months old. For the rest of my growing up, we moved every three years or so. In this order: Sweden, Netherlands, Sweden, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, USA (Hartford, Connecticut), Sweden. At this point I was grown up, and I decided to never move again. Which I did.... The company I worked for was being centralised to Denmark and if I didn't move, I had no more job - and I liked it there (and I had worked for them 11 years), so I moved after all. But now I've stayed put in Denmark for 13 years; and after 20 years left the company that made me move when they wanted me to move back to where I came from, because now it was time for decentralisation back to how it used to be... :eek:
I started playing the piano when I was 7, and have loved it ever since. When I was 12 I decided I was going to be a concert pianist. In the US I studied at the university for a Masters in Music, majoring in piano. But I had a teacher that robbed me of all joy in music, by banning all creativity. He wanted me to be a human iPod, only playing pieces exactly the same as someone else had (often himself). There was no room for my personal expression at all. This disappointed me so much that I gave up my dream (when I got offered a job at the above-mentioned company). Since then I'm just a happy amateur, but still hoping that some day I can perhaps become a professional. Somehow...
Brgds
Danny
Well here goes; I was born in Sweden, but we moved to the Netherlands when I was just a few months old. For the rest of my growing up, we moved every three years or so. In this order: Sweden, Netherlands, Sweden, Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, USA (Hartford, Connecticut), Sweden. At this point I was grown up, and I decided to never move again. Which I did.... The company I worked for was being centralised to Denmark and if I didn't move, I had no more job - and I liked it there (and I had worked for them 11 years), so I moved after all. But now I've stayed put in Denmark for 13 years; and after 20 years left the company that made me move when they wanted me to move back to where I came from, because now it was time for decentralisation back to how it used to be... :eek:
I started playing the piano when I was 7, and have loved it ever since. When I was 12 I decided I was going to be a concert pianist. In the US I studied at the university for a Masters in Music, majoring in piano. But I had a teacher that robbed me of all joy in music, by banning all creativity. He wanted me to be a human iPod, only playing pieces exactly the same as someone else had (often himself). There was no room for my personal expression at all. This disappointed me so much that I gave up my dream (when I got offered a job at the above-mentioned company). Since then I'm just a happy amateur, but still hoping that some day I can perhaps become a professional. Somehow...
Brgds
Danny