Algonquin said:
First and foremost, get yourself an education. If a career in music happens... great! :AOK: , but if things are a bit dry in the industry... you've got a safety net.
Not saying what you should, or should not do... just saying it's best to cover off as many angles as possibly.
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It's not that easy to get a good position in the musical branch and I speak out of a lot of experience here, as I worked several years for Fender in Germany. You can get the "lower" jobs maybe like working in the warehouse, or selling guitars in a shop, but in the long term this will not provide good ground for let us say founding a family, building a house, going on holiday. I know a lot of guys still working in the shops, and they all complain, make both ends meet. The older you get the tougher it becomes. First of all you should make up your mind what your strength is. Are you technically talented, are you a business man, are you into sound...etc! Being a sound man must not automatically satisfy you as being a guitar player. Give yourself some time and speak to poeple you can trust who will give you wise advice! If you want to get a good position at a bigger company like for e.g. Line6, Fender and so on, get the best education you can first. I did so and went besides my first job to universitiy to sutdy economics and several languages. I have applied three times for a job at Fender (initiatively) with no positive result. Truth is that everybody thinks that this is a dreamjob and so they have applications on their desks by doctors, engineers, highly qualified poeple who have unfortunately a completely false believe of what these music companies have to offer. I have waited very long time and one day there was a job available. It was in the export department and my luck was speaking 5 languages and having studied economics. Work didn't start with meeting stars and musicians, it started being a tough a** business, travelling throughout mostly Eastern Europe and making deals, clearing customs, clarifying dicumantation for delivering instruments. This lasted 2 years until I became more involved in artist relation and only then it started being an awesome job for a super low salary!!!
Please bear all this in mind and stop dreaming about a music world that in fact is a tough, hard, cold, sometimes emotionless world, full of broken characters. The more you have to do with music part of your job, the more you will feel your interrest in guitars decrease. I was happy to get back to normal after many years and it took some time to be able to go to music shops with a free mind and to enjoy music again!
After all these years, I would suggest that you go watching for jobs in them music industrie where you give something to poeple, like for e.g. music teacher, music scientist, music therapist, because here you get results in form of human reactions. A teacher at school once said to me that on e should not sacrifice ones passion for a job, because the passion will never be the same again. That is the reason why I denied job offers from Line6 and Gibson recently.
Good luck!
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