Q&A: Career choosing advice? I want to work with music, photography, and journalism/blogging.?
Question by Ella W: Career choosing advice? I want to work with music, photography, and journalism/blogging.?
It’s time for me to get more serious about choosing a good path to prepare myself to get a good career and start my life. For a long time I have wanted to work with music! I decided I want to go to Columbia College Chicago and get a degree in Arts, Entertainment, and Music management specifically working on a Music Business degree. I want to get a internship at Victory Record in Chicago while attending Columbia for publicity. My plan is to work with musicians and bands. I want to go on tour with bands promote, manage, and do publicity for them. My ultimate goal is to one day be able to start my own festival or tour to raise money for different origination’s or work with non-profit groups like Save The Music and Rock For Health.
I recently realized that although I would totally love that job, it lacks the creative freedom I want to have. So I was wondering what of careers are out there that I would be interested in doing. I was thinking that it would be nice to be able to interview bands and photograph live bands. For example I think it would be awesome to work for a website or online magazine like Buzznet and go to live performances and interview bands on video camera and photograph them. I think I would really enjoy maybe working for Fuse, MTV, and VH1 with my own TV show. So does anyone have any advice on somethings I might want to look into or how I could get started doing things like this. Also, what are some good schools in Chicago that I could get a degree in for jobs like this?
Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by LasersGoPEWPEW
This wont be the best answer, but I think it’s still worth saying:
Don’t just focus on the abstract goals like “working with journalism”. You will get into a journalism program and be dissapointed. Focus on whether you enjoy the everyday, practical tasks related to that job. Like research? Enjoy reading boundless articles to stay on top of the game? Can you handle the technical training that’s associated with this line of work? Will you be able to handle writing standards and having set deadlines?
If you think you could enjoy the technical side of a career, thats the one you go for. Never just consider the theory aspect.
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