I reflected yesterday afternoon that I’ve now been a university lecturer for 10 years. I started toward the end of 1998, filling in for my friend Bryce for a few weeks at AUT while he went and did something in the radio industry. He never came back.
It also occurred to me that the first portable mp3 player was released in 1998. It could hold 12 songs, encoded at 128k – and it used a serial port to connect to a Windows 95 machine.
It feels like a lot has happened and a lot has changed over the past 10 years.
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I can’t believe the first mp3 player is now 10 years old, that’s crazy! You are right a lot has changd over the last 10 years. The world almost seems un-recognizable in many ways.
Ten years is a long time but thinking back to mp3 players holding 12 songs and using Windows 95 seems like longer ago than that. Think how basic the Internet was bac then too! It’s scary to think what the next 10 will bring.
All the best…
I can hardly believe that I’ve been teaching guitar for 6 and a half years now. This was something I wanted to do while getting my music career off the ground, not something I wanted to make a career out of! Still, there is something very humbling about teaching, and it’s such a valuable and precious experience.