As this is my first official post on this blog that was not entitled “Test” or “Am I doing this right?,” I have decided I should take this time to welcome readers to the site and explain a little about what I will, hopefully, be doing on this blog.
My name is Ryan Seay and I will be blogging on this site about my successes and failures during what will likely be an interesting and episodic journey towards a law degree. I have spent the past seven or eight years of my life as a manager in the music/entertainment industry. During that time, I have been lucky enough to serve in several different capacities with recording studios, record labels, music venues and touring musicians; I have worked with some incredible people/musicians and most importantly have come to call some of them friends.
I have been working full-time for almost a decade and have taken classes at the University of South Florida (Go Bulls!) throughout that stint. Certain jobs during my career path have made that task nearly impossible and some have made it a manageable task at best. Lately, though, I have found more opportunities to physically attend class as opposed to my previous norm of frantically submitting an online quiz from my cellphone while traveling from Virginia to Michigan while half-sleeping in a bunk bed that we constructed in the back of a Ford E-350 van. This new found luxury has afforded me the great honor of nearing the completion of my undergrad degree.
With the completion of said degree, I am tasked with answering the question that almost all graduates find themselves faced with at some point in their life:
So… what do I do next?
Ever since I was young, I have been exhaustively informed that I would make a competent and exemplary lawyer. Throughout my younger years, I tried my best to ignore these prophetic callings, but I find that I can no longer shun these desires. Which leads me to this site and consequently, this journey.
As I said before, I have been immensely lucky to have had meaningful and in depth conversations with artists and musicians during very different points in their careers. Some of them are just beginning to get started, some of them have secured their first record deal and some of them are multi-platinum musicians working on their sixth and seventh albums.
These times spent in the industry have lent me invaluable knowledge in the form of good, bad and horrible experiences. I can not honestly say, though, that I would have done anything differently if I was given the opportunity to do so. Even the bad experiences have taught me so much and have made me the person I am today.
I know that this post is a little lengthy and I won’t allow it to continue too much longer, but I wanted to just briefly touch on what type of blog this will be.
I have been blogging on and off in one form or another for the past 15 years and this will most likely not be like the majority of blogs you have read. As you can most likely surmise from the title of this blog, I am nerd. This site will be a combination of rants, links, advice, tales of adventures, sob stories, photos and videos that, collectively, will catalog my life over the next half-decade.
I welcome you all to join me and chime in with your thoughts on my posts. It should be an interesting trip and hopefully an even better read.
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