Comments on: Choosing the Perfect Grad School: Part 2 http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/11/13/choosing-the-perfect-grad-school-part-2/ Innovating Through Artistry Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Cutler http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/11/13/choosing-the-perfect-grad-school-part-2/#comment-1188 David Cutler Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:24:47 +0000 http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/?p=9333#comment-1188 Becca, Sorry to hear you aren't enjoying your current path in music. You alone have to make the call on whether or not to stay in school. But here's a different way to approach your studies. If (IF!) you do things right, and act as a savvy student, music studies can help you succeed in a number of different paths. For example, there are major corporations that prefer to hire musicians because we are creative problem solvers and disciplined worker. For more thoughts on this, read my post ARE MUSICIANS CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS? http://www.savvymusician.com/blog/2009/08/are-artists-%e2%80%9ccreative-professionals%e2%80%9d/ As I suggested above, ask yourself how this degree can help advance your life goals. True, it's a music degree, and you are thinking about other directions. But music studies can help develop a number of transferrable skills, and the "Famous East Coast School" where you find yourself undoubtedly has tremendous resources. Better yet, you might find yourself enjoying music making more once again... Becca,

Sorry to hear you aren’t enjoying your current path in music. You alone have to make the call on whether or not to stay in school.

But here’s a different way to approach your studies. If (IF!) you do things right, and act as a savvy student, music studies can help you succeed in a number of different paths. For example, there are major corporations that prefer to hire musicians because we are creative problem solvers and disciplined worker. For more thoughts on this, read my post ARE MUSICIANS CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS? http://www.savvymusician.com/blog/2009/08/are-artists-%e2%80%9ccreative-professionals%e2%80%9d/

As I suggested above, ask yourself how this degree can help advance your life goals. True, it’s a music degree, and you are thinking about other directions. But music studies can help develop a number of transferrable skills, and the “Famous East Coast School” where you find yourself undoubtedly has tremendous resources.

Better yet, you might find yourself enjoying music making more once again…

]]> By: Becca http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/11/13/choosing-the-perfect-grad-school-part-2/#comment-1187 Becca Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:50:31 +0000 http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/?p=9333#comment-1187 Just a warning to those who have doubts about a career in music: I thought that going to grad school would clarify my feelings about pursuing a career. I even got in to a famous east coast music school. Now that I have realized that I don't want a career in music, I still have a year and a half of grad school left. I'm not miserable, but not happy on this path. Now I see that I should have given myself more time. Any one else been down this road? Should I get my degree, or just bail? Just a warning to those who have doubts about a career in music: I thought that going to grad school would clarify my feelings about pursuing a career. I even got in to a famous east coast music school. Now that I have realized that I don’t want a career in music, I still have a year and a half of grad school left. I’m not miserable, but not happy on this path. Now I see that I should have given myself more time.
Any one else been down this road?
Should I get my degree, or just bail?

]]> By: Rachel http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2009/11/13/choosing-the-perfect-grad-school-part-2/#comment-1135 Rachel Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:47:51 +0000 http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/?p=9333#comment-1135 I've met a lot of musicians that become professional students precisely because they don't know what to do with their talent and ambitions. They go back to school, not really to practice, but to defer their loans and delay having to really figure out what they can make their music do for them. A school is not going to get you a job most of the time. You get out of school what you make the school give you. It is a resource, certainly, but by no means is it, on its own, a promise of job security. You have to make that happen. I’ve met a lot of musicians that become professional students precisely because they don’t know what to do with their talent and ambitions. They go back to school, not really to practice, but to defer their loans and delay having to really figure out what they can make their music do for them. A school is not going to get you a job most of the time. You get out of school what you make the school give you. It is a resource, certainly, but by no means is it, on its own, a promise of job security. You have to make that happen.

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