you can make money being a musician, but only rarely do musicans earn enough to live on, including health and dental. most musicians i know have day jobs, and play gigs at night when they aren't working.

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by all means follow your dreams!! but leave those dreams room to grow on as you get older and have more experiences and find that your goals and desires are changing. good luck

Talk to someone with the career counselling services at your college.

Can't you minor in music or have 2 majors? Everybody needs to eat.

Music and education and teach as you seek your masters.

Beautifulstarr123 said:

Try to get every single scholarship you can. Work with the college, with your high school, and with parents that have sent kids off to school before and garnered some scholarships.

The goal is to graduate with NO debt. That way, you can start your professional life owing nobody, which means you have a chance to do anything you want. That will make any career in music possible.

You can do it!

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RodeoSchro said:

Where I went to university, there was an Electronic Music course as well as a Music Tech one. I got an angry talking to once because I was hanging out at the music centre while not actually being on the course

There was NO opportunity to "major in 2 subjects" (that's American terminology, where I went, it would probably have been called a "pathway") or anything, and I didn't see that there was any lack of student numbers. So, young man, you can DO it!

(one guy that I knew who was ON Music Tech. was deejaying at the Univ nightclub, so that was pretty cool - once you make the stuff you can actually DEMO it live IN the vicinity! , and that guy no doubt went on to work somewhere, and we're probably hearing his beats in a Missy Elliot song or something now (just conjecture on my part)).

RodeoSchro said:

Try to get every single scholarship you can. Work with the college, with your high school, and with parents that have sent kids off to school before and garnered some scholarships.

The goal is to graduate with NO debt. That way, you can start your professional life owing nobody, which means you have a chance to do anything you want. That will make any career in music possible.

You can do it!

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My daughter only took out a $500 loan, and the rest are scholarships. The $500 will most definitely be paid, before she graduate, if she doesn't take out any more loans, which I doubt.

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FnkyManifesto7 said:

Beautifulstarr123 said:

morningsong said:Can't you minor in music or have 2 majors? Everybody needs to eat. I was wondering the same.

You can

Then you should go with the two majors. I think that you should speak with your guidance counselor. Before she started college this year, that is what she did.

Beautifulstarr123 said:

FnkyManifesto7 said:

Beautifulstarr123 said: You can

Then you should go with the two majors. I think that you should speak with your guidance counselor. Before she started college this year, that is what she did.

I think audio engineering or business would also be a cool counterpart to double major with music. Maybe even pysch (though pay would be LOW for any career invloving that).

FnkyManifesto7 said:

Beautifulstarr123 said:

Then you should go with the two majors. I think that you should speak with your guidance counselor. Before she started college this year, that is what she did.

I think audio engineering or business would also be a cool counterpart to double major with music. Maybe even pysch (though pay would be LOW for any career invloving that).

Well, you have some time to decide the two. Best wishes to you

I was just reading this in a few months old magazine and thought of this thread.

I'm not sure what school you'll be attending, but seeing where these music business people invested their money might give you an idea of where the "need" in the music industry is being anticipated might help you make a decision.

FnkyManifesto7 said:

RodeoSchro said:

Try to get every single scholarship you can. Work with the college, with your high school, and with parents that have sent kids off to school before and garnered some scholarships.

The goal is to graduate with NO debt. That way, you can start your professional life owing nobody, which means you have a chance to do anything you want. That will make any career in music possible.

You can do it!

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Thanks! I have good grades, and an ok ACT score, and I'm part of a couple community things, so I think I can score some scholarships

Awesome! But DO. IT. NOW.

Pay no attention to the deadlines for submissions. Even if they say it's not "first come, first served" my experience is that the first applications in for any scholarship get the most attention.

You should have all scholarship applications in by November 30th if at all possible.

Good luck!

morningsong said: