I agree with those that said finish college and stay on the safe side. Do your music on the side. Sometimes you have to sacrifice.
I'm in college like you and listen to this story:
Like, you I produce music and go to college, but one day my school invited a group of singers and one of them had a story. The guy said that he went to college and wanted to be a lawyer, but he also liked music. He pursued both of them, while keeping steady focus on his college work. He was ridiculed for it. People wondered why he was pursuing two ambitions. As far as people were concerned they thought he should have drop one ambition and go with the other. Even professionals thought he should drop either his music or his college ambition like if it was a choosing game.
Well, long story short, he focused well in college, while gripping music and now he is a music lawyer and he goes around doing tours singing with a group of singers. He said if you have more than one ambition and you're going to college, hang on to it until the end.
That is what I'm doing to this very day.
---------- Post added at 10:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:07 PM ----------
You wanna do Music. Period.
If you wanna do something to be safe, then trust me, its not what you wanna do.
What you need to do is drop out of college and start getting an education in music.
You wanna align yourself with someone that's great at what you wanna do. Be their assistant, sleep on their floor, make them coffee. Just get into the environment you wanna work in. Absorb everything, be humble like a kid. Work on your skills, stay open for opportunities and strike when they arrive.
Trust me, I know many people in their 50's who hate their job and say that if they could go back 20 years they would choose the less safe option that would've really meant something to them. You don't wanna be the 40-50 year old guy, working a Job you only took to please your parents, hating what you do, then getting replaced by a younger kid who's in the same damn misery. Life's too effin short to throw it away like that.
We live on a giant ball of matter levitating in a universe so big, our planet is merely a sand corn in the ocean in comparison. Don't fear people, their judgement. So many people died miserably because of what the neighbors thought. Don't be scared to die giving every minute of your life to how YOU want to live it. You think life's a biatch now, but what no one tells you is that the real biatch comes along when you're 80 and realize that you threw everything away...because of some parental or societal pressure.
This guy is right to a degree. Yeah, take risks... Life is about making mistakes and learning from them, so you can do better the next time, but they call it risk for a reason. With risks, you can either fail or win, so it's not just about taking risks, it's about taking SMART RISKS. E.g. Would you go to Las Vegas and gamble all the money in your bank? It's a risk! Why wouldn't you? SEE WHERE I'M GOING WITH THiS?
Ok, this guy is in college. He has only 1 year left. I have been in college for 2 years, I have 2 years left. Like you guys, I produce music too. What I'm trying to say is, just let the guy finish college. It's one more year! After that one year, you're free to do what you want. You can get a job or not get a job, but now, you can make music and have a degree that comes in handy when you need it.
Get your steady income, then you can take SMART risks so you have something to fall back on.
PS - that steady income can back up your music career!