the study of my career

1. Career Study
By: Zane Skinner

2. Musician (music performer)
• Musicians have a fun career full of entertainment
and cheer. Yet there is a dark side to it. Most of
the time, part-time schedules and intermittent
unemployment are common.
• Many musicians supplement their income with
other jobs on the side.
• Many times, musicians discover their love for
playing music early on in life and begin to learn or
train their skills in order to progress in the field.

3. Salary
• Due to the wide range of difference between
musicians, and the problem that no musician
is guaranteed employment for long periods of
time, annual salary is hard to determine. But
the average musician can earn anywhere from
$6.00 to $60.00+ an hour.
• Most of this depends solely on the ability of
the performer and the feedback from those
listening.

4. Required education
• Well, unless you plan on teaching the music you
are playing to people, the only real required
education to perform in a band, is none. Though
it does pay off to have at least a high school
diploma if you plan on going very far.
• Really all you have to do is practice your skills.
• This can be done in your room, your yard, in a
schools band, in choir, or pretty much anywhere
you can harbor your skills and play.

5. Job Location
• Musicians have a career full of traveling if they
know what they are doing. If you make it to
play shows, then your job locations is where
ever you can get a spot at. Many musicians go
on tours when they “make it big” and travel to
other countries around the world to share
their music and give everyone a chance to
meet them in all their glory!

6. Benefits
• Musicians can benefit from their career both
financially and personally.
• Financially, if they get the right gig, because the
more people that show up, the more money is
thrown up and put right in your pocket.
• Personally, because musicians are always making
friends, traveling, meeting new people, and
making people happy with entertainment for
their ears. It means a lot to a true musician to
know that someone, somewhere, is enjoying the
music you created.

7. Drawbacks
• All Musicians face drawbacks in their career
at some point. Whether it be that only a few
people showed up and paid to see your show,
or that no one likes your music anywhere and
your band goes no where.
• That and the constant work that must be put
into creating a CD with 15 songs on it to keep
your payroll coming in.

8. Job opportunity
• Sadly, obtaining a job in the career field is very difficult.
• First, you must become noticed by someone either
passing by your garage band or by a record company
viewing your set at the show you’re playing at.
• Then, after being noticed, you must become signed
with that record company in order to get your music
out in the world for people to listen to after buying
your cd. (unless you choose the cheap road out and go
with uploading your songs to iTunes)
• After all of this mess, you now must hope your music
stays popular so people keep buying your cd.

9. Part-time/Full-time
• Most musicians will typically start out part-
time.
• This means they need another job to sustain
them because their “music career” hasn’t
quite picked up yet.
• After they start making some money, the can
usually go full-time with a record company to
“make it big” and go on tour.

10. Hardcore kids
• This is the career field that I am currently
pursuing.
• I will soon be out of high school with my
diploma and on to a record company to play
my own music and “Make it big” because I
love to play music, and I always have.
• And I'm rather talented if I do say so myself
• Be ready world, here I come with a guitar in
my hand!

11. End
• And that is the run down of how a musicians
career life will go.
• If that sounds like something you’d like to do,
get out there and get your
instrument/microphone and take your music
to the entire world.