April 25, 2006

  • EDIT:
    Going Home: Kellie P
    2nd lowest # of votes: Katherine McJanke
    3rd lowest # of votes: Paris

    Someone in my office told me there was this cool snippet on
    60 minutes about Starbucks with CEO and founder Howard Schultz, then she
    brought me a VHS tape of it—sweet! That’s the way to operate…

     
    So the guy I do arranging/orchestrating for has definitely been
    helping us out lately. Not only is he providing a ton of work for me to do
    (which = income) but he’s back to his old teaching self…and I love it. This is
    why I loved college—people who are smart that aren’t afraid of teaching
    you/telling you you’re wrong when you are. So I walk into his office on the day
    of our big recording this past Saturday, and he’s looking on a chart I had
    prepared for him, and he’s fixing stuff. Yikes. He says, “We need to talk…” and
    of course, I already feel bad since he’s been paying me thirty bucks an hour to
    do this stuff, and he has to fix it…he launched into a series of things that
    I’m doing that could be done better/I’m doing wrong. Everything from score
    style to wrong chords and stuff like that…I would complain about this, but he’s
    right, and I deserved it. I wasn’t using my head and/or didn’t know. I really
    felt bad…I was like “Do you want me to fix any of these now that I know…?” but
    he had probably fixed most of them already…So I got Shacked. That’s what we
    used to call it when he’d rip apart a composition/project to pieces in front of
    the class (again, well deserved). We say “You got Shacked”.  I definitely was Shacked that morning…ugh.

    Now, in any regular situation, I’d be concerned that he
    wouldn’t hire me anymore-but not this dude. We go way back, and my work is
    still great, it just wasn’t excellent.
    He said if I were in one of his classes, I’d get an A, but the stakes are
    higher now since this is the real world…I agree, again, I am glad this
    happened. The worst thing for ANYBODY is for someone to not have the guts to
    tell them they are doing a bad job, because HEY, how else do we grow? How will
    the end result happen? Someone else picks up the slack? That just leaves
    everyone else frustrated…and now, I’ll do it right and he won’t have to worry
    about it. And I love it, because that’s they way life should be. Tell people
    when they’re doing a bad job, then teach them what and how to do better. It’s
    really the best way to operate in any/every situation.

    Anyway—so deadlines are approaching and I stayed up late
    again last night orchestrating “You Raise Me Up” (which was fun) and got the
    parts and score done…come this morning to find out that my score was not in
    score order, which was stupid, because I KNOW score order…argh!! And he was
    like, it’s ok, just for the future….i went and changed it during my lunch break
    anyways, just for me if for anything…THEN he pointed out that I spelled Flugel
    wrong (Flugelhorn…a mellow trumpet). I spelled it Flugal. He said, “the trumpet
    players are going to make fun of you” and was making all these jokes about how
    I was a music major, etc..etc..etc…which was hilarious. But I was just thinking
    to myself DANIEL YOU IDIOT!!!! YOU CAN’T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT!!! ARGH!!!

    And this has been another episode of God Keeping Daniel
    Humble…tune in next time…

Comments (16)

  • Score order=halfbreeds before fullbreeds. Duh.

  • What was in this "cool snippet?" I'm curious, since I didn't hear anything about it...

    Oh, and as a french horn player who often had to play flugelhorn parts, rest assured that I doubt I would have noticed a misspelling on it! ;)

  • Good stuff.

  • God does have a sense of humor...love the post!

  • I'm only a quarter of the way through- but I had to tell you that my favorite line to date is (my work is still great!)- o.k. now back to reading... I am even more convinced that I need to get you that T-shirt! I wish everyone was as teachable as you- then we really could share how people really think. Refreshing

  • You are living the REAL THING, Daniel.  Thanks for sharing how God is working! Hurray!

  • Nice post Daniel....and very true.  There are not to many people who are willing to grow from criticism, most just get defensive.  Well, guess if it is put to you constructively.  Hey, thanks for the input on the symphony.

  • iron sharpens iron, bro.   it is the gift of true friendship.  God has blessed you with the right attitude!

  • YOU MAKE MY HEART SMILE.

  • Shack Attack!

    I love Shack- he's a genius in so many aspects, but he can be graceful and still "himself" to the rest of us, if he wants to be. The people that he corrects and remains that nice to are the folks that he really respects, so that's definitely a compliment to you, Daniel.

    In other news, if you ever want someone to spellcheck your stuff, I'd be more than happy to do it. Heaven knows I already do that for Heidi.

  • >>>Heaven knows I already do that for Heidi.

    oh snap!

  • Grrrrrrrr.

  • Really funny stuff here D! I can totally releate, obviously! Hey, if you need any other help, you know who to call! (especially on spelling things likfe Flugel!!)

  • er... and things like "like"  : )

  • Thanks for sharing.  I agree with you it does help when people are honest it also shows how much they truly care and support you!!!

  • It helps to have a great attitude about learning.  Good for you for being so open to "constructive criticism".  And I still don't get the "Why, Georgia" being sung in church.  Was there a specific theme or purpose?  Maybe I just don't know all the lyrics . . . I think I've only heard it twice. 

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