Brandonson90
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How do you guys feel about going to school like full sail or vs just learning about it on youtube or forums. Is the school loan worth it?
If you can do anything else instead of being a studio engineer, do that. But if audio truly is for you, then know it is a struggle to make it work.
It was three years after I graduated that a studio owner finally leveled with me: he told me that I was never going to get hired by a studio, never be on salary, never live the expectation that most audio students expect. He said the business model is different now: an engineer attends battle of the bands and small concerts, hangs around till afterward, then sucks up to all the bands that played whether they were good or not. You attend crappy performances on your own time to market yourself and hand out your business card, to convince crappy musicians that they need you. Then, you find a studio the band can afford. Say you rent it for $40: charge the band $80 an hour and pocket the rest. But developing your craft and marketing yourself are unpaid time.
I talked to a guy from my graduating class that was doing it. But ... his car had 180,000 miles on it, he almost never eats out at restaurants, and he's only surviving because, in his words, his wife "has a real job".
That's quite the reality-check.
Did it ever occur to you that the reason they are treating you like that is because they have higher expectations of you than the other students based on your level of education? If you don't want to be annoyed by intellectual prowess, you could always....I dunno....play dumb, but then again, only the truly dumb would do that at a university level. Suck it up.I went with Point Blank in London (DipHE) and they were superb! I learnt from top artists and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I'm currently finishing off the last year of my degree at another University, as Point Blank don't offer a degree course. However, the teachers at the University seem rather intimidated because I went to Point Blank. I was told they always wanted to go there. It's a bit annoying, as everytime they talk to me they keep trying to impose their intellectual prowess over me (they don't do it to anyone else). For example, they keep citing the latin names and complex maths and equations to me, when outlining the course materials?? Everyone else, they go to the far end to help! I know they my be insecure but really....