Evan >From my personal experience, one draw back of working at a university is the lack of knowledge some faculty have about the needs of a piano. This lack of knowledge is not limited to those profs who have very little exposure to the piano. In fact, some of the most "ignorant" ones are the one who actually profess to teach the instrument. While some of them claim to know a lot, in actually they know very little, and what they do know, is eschewed in such a way that no matter what you do, it is never enough to satisfy their limited knowledge. <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI 808-349-2943 www.bleespiano.com Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com</div> -----Original Message----- From: Evan Bingham <evanspianotuning@gmail.com> To: caut@ptg.org Sent: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:04 am Subject: [CAUT] School Politics (Re: LSU SOM position) <div id=AOLMsgPart_2_ad02c1ab-7077-4ea5-b184-bbc1addd100b>Hello fellow techs, My name is Evan Bingham and I'm finishing up my classes at the Chicago School for Piano Technology.  I've been reading this debate on institutional work vs. business, and it is definitely intriguing to me.  I've been working on a project about institutional management, reading debates like these for a while and decided to finally post.  I have it set in my mind that I want to work in an institution, when I haven't even really experienced it first hand.  I've just experienced it through interviews and campus visitations and so far it seems like a career I can easily spend the rest of my life dedicated to. Anyways, my research is primarily just about institutional management and NOT a comparison between starting your own business or working for an institution.  I have been trying to cover as much as possible, from the negatives like vandalism, to the positives like benefits, and it is just to show the other students in my school this particular career path.  I have come to a bump in the road to my project, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly entails school politics (in a negative sense).  So Far I am hearing things like, conflicting orders from above lack of appreciation not enough of a budget to work with administration's lack of understanding scheduling conflicts Is there anything I'm missing?  Can anyone sum up the politics of institutional management for me? Any help would be appreciated.  I'm pretty much finished my project, just trying to polish up some of the grey (market) areas. Thanks in advance everyone, Evan Bingham P.S. I actually applied to the LSU job so I hope they get back to me.  Wish me luck! </div> <div id='u8CAA60B87DF2ADC-1550-2F9E' class='aol_ad_footer'><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"><A title="http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011" href="http://toolbar.aol.com/moviefone/download.html?ncid=aolcmp00050000000011" target="_blank">Get the Moviefone Toolbar</A>. Showtimes, theaters, movie news, & more! </div>