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BankHoldUp:
The great thing about choosing music in college is that it affords you amazing opportunities to network and play with some truly incredible musicians, at the expense of spending every waking moment in a master class or a practice room. A number of people I knew at the university now support themselves and their families as musicians, teachers or composers, thanks to the connections they formed while in school.

Every person in this thread who says that networking is the key is absolutely right and getting into a studio in college will help with that immensely. However, just like everything else that's worth doing, it will require a large measure of dedication and work on your part.

Sox:
Supporting yourself from your music as a DIY musician, while doable, is often not desirable unless you plan on getting used to spending the days where a good meal is considered a luxury.
If you accept that it will an extremely tough, unglamorous and unrewarding lifestyle, save for the joy of playing music, then by all means go for it. Otherwise, it's probably not for you.

Bastardous Bassist:

--- Quote from: BankHoldUp on 15 Sep 2009, 16:18 ---Every person in this thread who says that networking is the key is absolutely right and getting into a studio in college will help with that immensely.

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It should be noted that, although going to college provided me with a great network, I needed to keep that network up.  I needed to stay in periodic contact with the people I knew while there, some of whom I didn't really care for to be honest.

That's another thing.  You will have to work for people you hate.  In an office context, this is usually okay, but the nature of music requires you to be around them for the entirety of your work for them.  If they think you hate them, they will not call you again.  Actually, most club/restaurant owners are incredibly terrible people, especially to musicians.  They have no idea what you are doing and they will expect you to do your work in a rather silly, unfeasible way.

Hat:
I have been desperately trying to build up a network of contacts so that if I ever actually get to run a club I will be a shining beacon of non-arseholishness in an otherwise myriad see of dickbags but I'm starting to realise that if I ever actually manage to get high up enough to be able to run a club I will have almost certainly done it by fucking other people over anyway so that should tell you what you need to know about those sorts of people.

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