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不知道大家對於【 吉他老師 】這份工作有什麼感覺??

另一種問題會更容易讓我們感受到，對一份工作的刻板印象從何而來  : 對於【在聯發科工作的資深工程師】，你有什麼看法?? 大部分人都會聯想到 ~ ~ 【收入一定很高吧！】、【 工作內容肯定很專業很艱難吧！】

不可否認這就是一個標籤。你對於某件事物的第一個想法，那就是一種標籤。什麼工作是很棒的，什麼工作是普通的，什麼工作是辛苦的，什麼工作是辛苦又難賺的、什麼工作不需要使用太多知識的……。不可否認，我們不經意地，不小心地，常常因為職業給人貼上標籤。

吉他老師這樣的工作……嗯~ 一言難盡。好像沒有不好。但，又說不出它哪裡好。對於吉他老師的優點，大部分人則是聯想到 : 能經常彈吉他應該很幸福吧！

其實，如果只是想要經常彈吉他不用非得當吉他老師不可(其實當一個吉他老師未必能達成經常彈吉他的願望)。就像你喜歡吃東西，你也用不著去開一間餐廳一樣的道理。

前幾天，我跟學生家長閒聊到職涯選擇，聊到我職涯的前十年是工程師，後來轉到教吉他這個領域。John是一個美國人，目前在台南開設英語補習班。交流了一些觀念之後，他跟我說 “You are a hero, man . Rock N Roll “

我很感動，回家我寫了封短信給他。John也很友善地回覆了我。他的信中提及，吉他老師，音樂老師這份工作，在我們身處的這個國家是如此地重要。太多人不懂得享受音樂。他說成長過程中，音樂對他太太太重要了，甚至可以說是形塑他人格的很重要一部分。因為音樂，他懂得怎麼享受人生，他覺得人生因為音樂而變得很酷。現在他很開心，他的孩子也能跟著我學電吉他，也能夠進入到音樂這個很酷的世界。

在找我學吉他的學生之中，不乏有生活壓力很大，甚至有經常要找心理醫生諮詢；甚至也曾有過那種嘗試自殺沒有成功的；還有人跟我說 這堂課已經是他支持他生活最重要支柱；有人說除了彈吉他之外他找不到可以舒緩他工作壓力的管道；有人說不讓他聽音樂等於是要他的命……

在這個世界上。有些人的使命很廣闊，可以唱歌給好幾萬人聽。甚至好幾十萬人聽。他們的使命就是寫歌、唱歌，然後去感動很多很多人。

而像我們，面對面、一對一教授的吉他老師，在同一時期，也許只能照顧30個、40個學生，但這並不渺小。渺小的從來都不是吉他老師的使命，渺小的是那些不客觀的、目光短淺、短視如豆的眼界。那種只用價格衡量價值的簡化標籤。當你拒絕思考、拒絕感受、拒絕感動，你就會理所當然地，接收別人或這個社會告訴你的，價格 = 價值。但在很多地方，其實並不是這樣的！

不要因為那些短視的眼界，搗亂自己的腳步。吉他老師的使命是神聖的。我年輕時學吉他就相信如此，現在也堅信如此。將來想必也是如此！

我與John來往信件擷取如下，與大家分享

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Hi  John

I would like to especially sent my appreciation about what you told me yesterday.

For the past few years , the decision of “to be a guitar teacher” , gave me lots of pressure.

Sometime the noise from other people would be :

Are you out of your mind ? You gave up the high salary Engineering career, and be a? what? a guitar teacher? About half? Even one third pay compare with Engineering career.

At the beginning years, I felt angry about other people’s opinion like above.

But , as time goes by , I learn how to not to care about other people’s opinion.

Since this is my life ,right?I make my own decision , and I take full responsibility for it.

I had faced huge fearful feeling about the choice to be a guitar teacher. After all, in our culture, we treat money as so high priority stuff in life. Most east people believe that, money brings happiness and safity .Further more, money brings enving. Try hard to to get the fake sense of accomplishment.

How stupid it can be?

They just don’t get the real happiness, if they don’t give up such comparison mindset. If they don’t spend time with family, if they don’t feel love and passion of life.Thy just don’t get the real happiness.

I realized that , but it’s still hard to make the right decision. I also told my self agin and again. I make the right choice.

But I rarely , really rarely hear people told me that “ I am a hero “.

Usually , people are not brave enough to make the change.

So they have to pretend they don’t agree with me to fight for their absurb decision.

So sad, sad but true.

And John , also, I have to tell you , “ You are a hero to me. “

Not because of your wealth. But about your kindness.And your love for Joe and your family , and for all of your friends.

That makes you a wonderful, a great person .A really alive person I think one human being should be.

Best Regards, 

From 邱洛克

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-------- 以下 是 John 的回覆 ----------

Senor Rock! 1st of all I totally agree 110% on your opinions, views and ideas!!

Given up an engineering job to become a guitar teacher is simply awesome and every single 1 of my friends would totally agree with me and what you did!

You were an engineer, you made it, cool but then you started focusing on teaching guitar,  raising a family, providing for your family, being apart of your family, enjoying your family ~total respect!!!

And you are now teaching music which is so needed in this country! My students have horrible if any music taste at all, music is so much apart of my life, every single day I'm listening to music and I'm soooooooo happy Joe listens to really good, smart music all the time, music has shaped me and all the cool people I have met through music, the places I've been to see music, festivals, concerts, all these experiences are extremely important in life! (以下略)…

Rock and Roll, John Patrick Kuhel

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聆聽音樂，演奏樂器這事兒，
究竟是人生瑰寶，
抑或是阻礙學習、浪費時間的無關緊要的興趣。
存乎一心而已！

期許自己，常記自己心中想要創造的價值，
勇往直前、莫忘初衷。

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