My Five year plan
In 3 years I’ll be done with my A.A. in Marketing.
I want to go to school like a year after that after I get a steady income and enough money so that I can move to Winter Park and go to Full Sail or some music school so I can learn about recording arts or show production.
Then I’ll start my own business or work for a record label. hopefully…
Piece of advice?
As a Full Sail recording arts grad, might I suggest looking into taking the 40 grand FS is going to cost you and using that to live on for a few years while you intern for very little or no pay?
The knowledge you gain at FS, while valuable, will pale in comparison with the experience you gain working in the real world, plus the connections you make will serve you far better than the ones you make at FS.
Just my two cents, from someone that’s been there.
Word.
And reblogged as someone who hired Matt for reasons having nothing to do with Full Sail (although we did find him through their intern referral program or something… that’s not nothing).
Though if you have access to a lot of blow or weed, you might be able to pay for some of your FS tuition through, er, alternative means.
I went to Expression which was started out of a lawsuit from a former Full Sail employee. I hated every second of school. I went to school to learn how to “Record bands” and I spent 90% of my time learning audio for movies and video games.
Take the $40k it takes to go to Full Sail (Now $90k at Expression) and go build a studio yourself and learn. If you are seriously trying to commit your life to being involved with recording… graduating a $40k school with a -$40k debt and starting your first employment opportunities in the industry as an unpaid intern for minimum 1-2 years isn’t a smart way to plan a responsible financial future in the industry.
Out of all the kids in my graduating class, I’m the only one involved with a recording studio and that’s because I started my own. About 25% got “audio related jobs”, and the other 75% are working a 9-5 in a career un-related to audio wishing they had gone to a different college for a guaranteed career.
