Musikers karriärvägar : Flöjtisters karriärvägar och utbildningars påverkan

Sammanfattning: If guidance counselors are to do as good a job as possible, they need to have as much comprehensive information as possible when it comes to possible career paths for their clients. To get on the way to get this information I, in this study, examined how musicians - specifically flute players career paths could seem. I examen this by doing five interviewees. This study is for guidance counselors, so they hade a more solid foundation to stand on, but also for aspiring musicians to get new perspectives to consider when faced with career choices. The study is conducted through five interviews with professionals flutists; Agneta, Harry, Jenny, Eva and Pepita who all work or have recently worked as professional musicians or teachers. With professional musician, I mean the ones in one way or another is or has been employed musicians and also is in the same or higher level in terms of their music ability than those who are employed. Their stories, compiled into separate stories which I have compared to some theories of career paths. The theoretical points of the study are based from Holland's matching theory , which matches individuals to environments where they can utilize their skills and knowledge . Holland believes that to get a harmonious society and all individuals to get something out of their jobs one should find environments that suit these individuals. Careership-theory of Hodkinson and Sparkes, believe that one creates ones career by ones election but is simultaneously influenced by both the environment one grew up in, their personality and their characteristics - their habitus – but also how the environment is when carrying out elections.
Even fragments from Browns approach I will use in the study, who briefly says that no one can ever possess all the relevant information and therefore choices that are made are always qute random. The stories are also compared with each other and from all of this, conclusions are drawn about the ways that are possible for flutists, or at least has been possible so far. The study showed that all the interviewees had some commonalities - that they all taught in some form, even those who were not interested in educating as a profession.