Podcast Interview
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)Transcript
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what personality traits, natural abilities, talents or passions would benefit someone in your career. Clearly you've got to be perfect like me. Um, nah, so um, what I have learned uh especially in these last years of, of doing this is that your skill and talent behind the board, your skill and talent with potentially ah mater's and failures is second to your skill with people. If you aren't a people person, you better become one because that will hinder you unless you have your own studio and you only let your friends come in, you're not doing it as a business, that's your own thing. That's called a hobby, that's not a job, it's not a career. If you're trying to get into this as a career, you need to be a people person, you need to, first of all understand um how to read people and how to communicate with people in a way that will get your point across, but not, you know, if if there's tensions in the room, not elevate them but de escalate them. Um you have to understand that there will be like at some point you have to be a translator. Like there was, I remember there was, there was a session probably in the first two years that I was here, I had somebody, I had a band come in and the bass player said that he wanted his base more chocolatey and it's like what in the world does that mean? Well if you think about it, good chocolate is generally smooth chocolate. Alright, so what he meant to say is that he wanted his base a little bit smoother. Which in my mind translates to he wanted uh a high roll off. Okay. He wanted some of some of the trouble um turned down, that's all it was. But if I didn't have the foresight to be able to translate what he was trying to tell me, I would have given him a product that he didn't want, he would have left not he would have left in a in a state of mind that is like, well I mean I may or may not come back here because he didn't pay for his time and pay for this and that he didn't give me what I wanted, so on and so forth. Um So I mean that's just one example but um yeah you have to be a people person. So I agree with that. Working here has taught me to be a little more social.