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You start trying to make it big as a singer. We'll buy a lottery ticket. Let's see who strikes it rich first. Our money's on us.
The sad part is that not only are your odds of becoming a huge success slim...your odds of even making a living at it are less than promising. Few singers/musicians are able to support themselves solely with their art. Meaning you're probably going to have get one of those "job" things you were trying to avoid in the first place by becoming a musician.
In many ways it's a crapshoot, but if you're super-talented, charismatic, and driven, your odds go up. From 0.000001% to about 0.000002%.
Musician or Singer Career
......The problem is that the only musicians and singers we see are the ones on television because those are the ones who have "made it." We aren't usually able to take intimate looks at the lives of those who are struggling, or those who have out-and-out failed. We don't see the near-starvation and substandard living conditions of those who can't make ends meet and don't really have any other viable skills (unfortunately, being able to flip your tongue over doesn't fall under the category of "viable").
Sure, some make it big and many others are able to eke out a living, but for the majority, it's a constant battle to make money from week to week, and most either take another job for supplementary income or give up on it altogether. For deets, check out the throngs in line at American Idol auditions. And those are the people who generally stink. For every Bono, there are ten million others who tried and failed.
We're not trying to stomp on your dreams—we're just trying to be real with you. We're all for thinking big and going out there to conquer the big scary world with your inimitable talents, but please, please, please listen to us when we say that you should have a Plan B.
Get your college degree. Be really good at something other than music—something mainstream like business or science. (In fact, "business" isn't a bad idea—even if you do have success as a musician, you'll likely need to be your own businessman, marketing yourself and keeping tabs on your income and expenses.).....
The reality is that most don't make it past the "demo" stage. We're talking years and years of rejection, dead ends, and your parents asking you why you don't go back to business school. (They might have a point.)
https://ideas.ted.com/how-do-artists...ongoing-quest/According to data from the music event website Songkick, of the 7,000 bands that headlined a small venue (less than 700 capacity) in the NYC area in 2013, less than half even played another show from 2014 to October of 2016. Of the bands that did play again, only 400 of them headlined a show at a venue with a capacity greater than 700 people.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissa...h=b32ccf214f26....earning a steady living wage is the highest standard of economic success for a working artist in any field. And only a fraction of those who go to school to achieve that actually do, as one study demonstrated.....
The music advising at the Dallas College Richland Campus by Derrick Logozzo and Melissa Logan is outright fraud. Only a handful graduate Richland and or transfer. Of that handful that transfer only a fraction complete a 4 year degree. Hundreds of students come through the program and end up with 100-161 or some insane amount of hours that apply to nothing and won't transfer. All attempted hours count. At 150 credit hours students are charged out of state tuition at 4 year Texas Universities. At 180 credit hours financial aid ends. Derrick Logozzo and Melissa Logan flout degree plans. They refuse to follow administration's policies.independent artists earned an average of $12,860 a year off music, and label artists earned an average of $23,913. About three-quarters of independent artists earned less than $10,000 a year from music, compared to 61% of label artists.
Students should not take more than the 66 hours that will transfer period. Many will change majors so that they can actually get a real job and eat. Logozzo and Logan try to turn everyone into a music major and/or stick them in dozens of hours of music nonsense that won't transfer to fill their chairs for $$$$$ which has turned this department into a complete joke. Those that major in music are likely to spend 3 years at a real school racking up many more hours to finish a degree. So, they need to stick strictly to the degree plan and finish their 66 hours at Richland in two years.
Melissa Logan keeps score of her students card games and keeps it a party atmosphere in the building when it should be a quiet study area. TVs are brought in by students to have gaming tournaments. Logan has her students singing in the halls disrupting professors that are in their offices and trying to teach classes so the campus police are called out frequently. Melissa Logan needs to quit this #edgeoffamous crap. The music students are almost all at the #edgeofdisaster!!!
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