What schools should we consider?

Moonmaid
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:52:15 +0000

I was a music comp major and I loved every minute of it, but I figured doing it for a living wasn’t probably in the cards. I did pursue playing music in NYC (mostly rock) in my 20s, but also had to office temp to pay the rent. I was often offered permanent jobs at these companies, but it just didn’t interest me. After a few years of this, I finally did take a job at an investment bank where I had regularly temped. I was promoted into a researcher spot after a while and spent several years with the company. It was a pretty unlikely place for a music major to end up, but the firm knew when they hired me that I was a good worker, and knew when they promoted me that I could handle the work and had a bachelor’s degree. At that point, where and what I had studied was pretty much immaterial. The job allowed me to take interesting vacations to Europe and the Caribbean and to save enough money to buy a house with my husband after we had a baby. I am sure that if I had been lucky enough to have had a break in music, I would never have ended up at that job, but I never did regret either my college degree or majoring in music.