My favourite Music

As a person of eclectic taste, I don’t have one kind of favourite music, I have loads! But I first started listening to rock musi

c when I was 11 years old, my older sister’s best friend (whom I had a crush on when I was little) left a Nirvana cassette in my house one day and I started listening to it and loved it, when I returned it to him, I said that I liked it and he told me that he was going to make me a mix tape with other bands and give it to me because he didn’t liked the same music as my older sister so it was nice to have someone to talk to about those bands (eventually I got over my crush and we became really good friends until now, music does bring people together). That’s how I met U2, R.E.M., Radiohead, Foo Fighters who are still my favourite bands to this day, I also started listening classic rock when I was in high school, and I became obsessed with Pink Floyd, Tool, Led Zeppelin and, of course, The Beatles. I listened to The Beatles so much that I asked my grandfather his Beatles vinyls and record player and never gave it back, I’m sure he didn’t mind, though, he didn’t used it anymore. I have seen a lot of these bands live, I saw U2 twice, R.E.M. once, right before they broke up, Radiohead on 2009, after they released their best album, In Rainbows, Foo Fighters once and I actually saw Paul McCartney the first time he came.

Postgraduate studies

I want to study a postgraduate course, but first I want to work for a few years in order to save money, move to a bigger apartment and travel a little with my friends and family. I want to take a course related to public policies or institutional development, however, I don’t want to study it here because post graduate courses in Chile have a structursl problem: since the undergraduate careers are so long (over 5 years), the knowledge that one acquires in the postgraduate courses is not really new. For example, a couple of friends of mine are doing the magister in family law, however, the courses are extremely similar to the ones they took when they were studying law (family law, filial relationships, the legal clinic regarding family matters and other compulsory and elective courses) with just a little bit of specialization. Most people I know that are either doing a MSc degree or a PhD here in chile agree that even though it boosts up the chance of getting a job, in terms of learning new things is not worth it. The main reason for me to study a postgraduate course is learning more and actually be a contribution to my future work, and since I’d like to work in the public service improving public policies regardin equality, I want to go abroad to do a MSc degree in gender, development and inequality or political economy regarding gender  issues. I know that many european and north american universities offer this course, and that most of them offer it on a part time module, so that I can also work while i’m studying it.

My Future Job

Even though I’m going to be a lawyer, I’m not looking forward to practise law at the courthouse, I want to work in the public system, I particularly like the SERNAC (National Service for the Consummer), the FNE (National Economical Prosecutor’s Office) or the SII (National Tax Service). What I enjoy the most is the economical analysis of the law and those services would allow me to enrich my professional development in that area. However, the salary in the public system isn’t as good as in the private sector, I don’t mind getting payed a bit less in order to work until 5 pm, don’t take work home and don’t answer work emails on the weekend, I’d rather have more free time for my hobbies and friends than receiving a huge salary with no time to enjoy it. I’d love to travel in my job, however it would be better to visit different places in a holiday context more than work related trips, I think that that is more exhausting and you don’t get to see as much of the place as you would if you travel there as a tourist. In order for me to apply to these jobs I think it would be useful to have some sort of graduate degree, maybe a MSc or a PhD; I’d like to study for a Master of Science degree in Economical politics or Gender, Development and Inequality, these are quite specific, but they tackle important problems that have to do with the development of public policies.