How hard is it to get a good job in the music industry?

What would be a good job for me in the music industry?

• The one thing I have loved the most ever since i was a kid was music. My parents would never let me take lessons to learn how to play instruments. I didn't start learning to play music until my last year in high school but i loved listening to music. I would constantly get on the internet and try to find new bands that i loved! I can read music now but I'm not an expert and i am teaching myself to play the drums. As far as music goes I have always been more of a listener than a performer but I am still practicing drums and learning how to play them and read the music. Any ideas of a job that might suit me in the music industry? I really don't want to join the medical field but if I can't find something in the music industry that is what I will be doing. :/

• Answer:

  Good question, sounds like we're in a somewhat similar situation. I'm in my 20s now and for quite a few years kind of beat myself up over the seeming impossibility of working in the music industry, getting started at my age, and obviously I wasted a lot of time. I've made the decision that I'm going to finish college, hopefully get started in my career and make some money, and then once I'm more stable I'll be able to work on music on the side, hopefully buy some quality instruments & recording equipment, work at it, and see what happens. I've had to put it to the side for the time being to focus on my education, but in the future I'm hoping to take lessons and get some connections with those in the local music community, hopefully I could meet a diverse group of people that could expose me to a lot of different music skills & ideas. So I guess I would point you in a similar direction, "eye on the prize" is my motto, get yourself in a stable position (if you're not already) and once you're there, dive in, have fun, and see what happens. I certainly wouldn't give it up, music is one of the only things that keeps me sane.