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Career News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the career facet of life. Career-News Blog: Career-Path News Lawyer Takes Unusual Career Path to Turner: December 19, 2007 by Katheryn Hayes Tucker
Whatever you think you know about the career-path for corporate lawyers you can forget on the way to meet Philip M. Walden Jr. at Turner Broadcasting System's headquarters on Techwood Avenue at 10th Street in Atlanta. The first order of business, although it's nearly 5 p.m., is a strong cup of coffee, straight, at Turner's employee dining area, the Station Break. A tour of sorts ensues. Of Turner's corporate headquarters. And of Walden's rocking and rolling career. Whatever others were doing before, during or after law school was probably nothing like what Walden was doing. Managing bands. Setting up concert tours. Working out the details of record contracts. Growing up with the biggest names in Southern rock. Helping out in the family business -- which was Capricorn Records, founded by his father, the late Phil Walden, manager of the Allman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker Band and business partner and best friend of soul legend Otis Redding. Career News Blog: Career Path News (Continued) The younger Walden started out working in Capricorn's mail room. Before long, he was doing his own deals. He signed a band called Widespread Panic after hearing them at a fraternity party. At the University of Georgia, where he met his future wife, he mixed classes with rock and roll. He finished his English degree at Mercer back in his hometown, Macon, Ga. -- where his father and his childhood friends are in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Along the way, he decided to become a lawyer. He still seems surprised that after graduation from Mercer Law in 1992, he landed an offer from King & Spalding. "I never expected that in my wildest dreams," he said. "I had long hair. I was a hippie from the '70s. I didn't own a suit." Career News Blog: Career Path News (Continued) The King & Spalding experience taught him a lot and, in retrospect, he said, he probably should have stayed longer. But after a year, the music business -- and his famous father -- called. He moved to Nashville in 1993 to work for a new incarnation of Capricorn, then later moved back to Atlanta. After Capricorn shut down in 2000, he went into private practice. He handled a variety of corporate matters, but the work was far from his earlier life. His father passed away in April 2006. Walden has found a niche now in the music section of Turner Entertainment Group's in-house legal department, combining his skills as an attorney with his experience in the recording industry. He does volunteer work for the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta. He is on the board of advisers for a new music business program at the University of Georgia. And he's a soccer dad, driving his daughter to practice and games, among a long list of other activities with his wife and family of four school-aged children. He talked about it all over coffee in his office, with photos of his father and other family members with famous Georgians from Gregg Allman to Jimmy Carter. Career News Blog Comment: I, writing here in the career news blog, had a similar kind of career path as that of Philip M. Walden Jr. at Turner Broadcasting System's headquarters on Techwood Avenue at 10th Street in Atlanta. I was trained as an electronics engineer. I took my first (and the last!) job as a scientist in the research laboratories of the Defense Ministry of India. Soon I got disillusioned of the efficacy and value of the kind of work I was being made to do over there. One more thing about me! Since my childhood only, I had always been a research-oriented person and if a real research was not being done, I was not to be a part of it. Career news meant NOT for me! Career News Blog Comment: Career Path News (Continued) I stepped out. My curiosity and my passion for freedom took me away from my regular career path on a foot-tour to the places of knowledge in my country. In the meantime I kept supporting myself by doing menial jobs in between. I met people and studied their patterns of working, relaxing, expressing themselves to others as well as to themselves in their routine, during enjoyment, in trouble as well as in emergencies. That gave me an insight into human kinematics and how it affects the way energy travels through our body, or else gets obstructed in the way. Career News Blog Comment: Career Path News (Continued) I wasn't bothered about me personally. I was mainly interested in the subject of human performance - both physically and mentally - as well as in the disease-pattern of the body and of the mind. My body was my laboratory and the bodies of the people around me were the more general, extensive and widespread confirmations of my intensive work I was doing with my own body - my personal laboratory! It was in this scenario that I accidentally stumbled into the bodily experience which I have mentioned about in the very beginning of My Story : My Date with My Body at the age of 53 years. The rest of the story about me and my career path, i.e., from 53 years of age to date (guess, how much I should be now!), is already being written in the weekly bloglet and you can follow it there in detail; since this has been the duration that took me to the peak and, then, the climax of my creative research into the human body. Career News Blog Comment: Career Path News (Continued) Ultimately through trial and error as well as through intensive and extensive testing along with feedback from the self and from the people, I reached the conclusion that the mental patterns dwell in the rigidities of the body musculature especially in those parts where we can't even dream it is so; and it is these rigidities only that stop us from performing fully and thus tend us toward getting diseased. I worked with the said rigidities and the results were nothing less than miracles. It's not yet that my work is fully over. In fact, I'm still working on the details of its modalities concerning various other diseases but the work with eyesight and a few lifestyle diseases like headache, sinus, backache, obesity, digestion, acidity, constipation, chronic fatigue syndrome, hypertension, sex drive, sex problems and mental stress has come to its logical culmination and I am here to offer the same to the people in my weekend training sessions.
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