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/adv/ please help me,
I have come across a dilemma that may affect me for the rest of my life.
I am a high school senior in SoCal and I am planning to make a career as a musician (jazz bass) in LA. I know I am good enough because I regularly play with professionals, have won many awards, etc. I just don't know what decision I should make to facilitate that career path based on the following two options.
Option 1: Go to Cal State Northridge (a middle-tier state uni about 45min outside downtown LA) and study economics, while simultaneously try to build a music career in LA.
Option 2: Differ enrollment from Cal State Northridge for a year and move to LA with a friend of mine. With this friend I'd be living around 20min outside of downtown LA and paying either no rent or around $400/month. I'd probably get a job working at Starbucks or something like that, I'd have my own car, and I'd be recording/hustling gigs nonstop (seeing as I already know a few musicians in LA).
Wat do /adv/?
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dont go to uni
win at life
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profit
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>>18176118
What do you mean?
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>>18176125
The smartest people right now are the ones who don't go to college.
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>>18176136
Yeah but just because I'm smart doesn't mean I'm not gonna get fucked.
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>>18176140
>>18176125
You can go to university and major in music.
There's the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where I'm from and its a part of the city's biggest uni.
As to whether its actually useful or not, I have no idea. Of course you Burgerstanis have to consider the price tag of uni though
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>>18176148
My parents wont pay for me to go to uni for music.
I either do econ in school or I'm on my own
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>>18176151
I kind of feel bad for you but your parents have good intentions.
One of my former coworkers is a published cartoonist and hobby painter, but works as a chemist. He doesn't really see the arts as a viable way to make a good living, so he works in a field he accepts/tolerates and does his craft in his spare time.
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>>18176164
I can see your point. I definitely have a passion for economics, but it's not my true love. If I were to do music it would be full time (i.e. touring, teaching, etc).
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>>18176151
Econ is not a particularly useful degree. Maybe you can compromise with them by majoring in some business field that they will consider practical and you can use to increase your business smarts as a musician/
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