A strange feeling...

Yesterday, I commente on my new position I have, as the "Genesis-Web Content Editor" for the official Genesis website. I've been doing this job officially for a month now, and it really is a fun job. Its work, that doesn't feel like "work," if that makes sense.

However, it is very strange for me to be in this position. I've been a fan of Genesis since about 1984 or so, and now, I'm working (through a company) for the band themselves, basically running content on their website. It's a connection in a very real way, to something that's been, for want of a better word, a "hobby" for me for over 20 years.

There's also a great sense of responsibility for this. I've been put into a position that any "fan" out there would kill for, and now, I'm *that guy*. I feel I can be a good voice for fans of the band with the management and perhaps even the band themselves at some point, but there's also that understanding on my part, that I really am just helping run their website.

I'm a big King Crimson fan also, and I got thanks on here yesterday about the Genesis gig from Sid Smith, the guy who helps run King Crimson's website (and does a lot of other cool stuff, check out his blog), DGMLive.com. That's a site the approach of which I'd like to emulate in my own work, while putting my own stamp on the approach I take.

At it's core, I figure I got this job by being myself, and I just have to continue doing that, helping to make the content of the site something I and other fans would be interested in checking out on a regular basis.

I think I'm putting a lot of my angst out here tonight about this job. Overall, I've been having a great time with this work, so I just have to continue doing so. It's a great place to be right now, and I'm going to do my best to put the band out there on the web with the best face. I made a comment on the message boards on the site that my goal for the site is to keep it active and alive, and one of my friends on the boards told me that that phrase sounds like a Mission Statement. I've taken that to heart in the past month.

So, in summary, it's a strange feeling to have a hobby/interest turn into a job.

NP: Yes - Children of Light