Music business?

domrom1
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:18:26 +0000

The point of going to college is so that one may obtain a degree/skill/trade that will help them eventually get a good job, better than if you didn’t earn that degree. I would love to get a journalism or broadcast/communication degree and be a sports writer, or an analyst/anchor on a sports show (preferably “baseball tonight”) but i know the odds of that are incredibly slim. i cant blow this chance and money (not to mention the opportunity cost, econ majors) chasing something that is terribly unlikely. instead im going to get an accounting degree, where i can more than likely get a job quicker than most other majors like the aforementioned broadcast degree, and see where it takes me, be that opening up my own cpa office or doing what i really want and being an FBI agent. the point is, wherever it takes me, accounting gives me a DRAMATICALLY greater chance to have a steady, comfortable income in comparison to something like broadcast, or in the OP’s niece’s case, music