<p>My d graduated in 2010 with a double BA degree in music and a theater concentration. We live in Nassau County and she did move into city fairly quickly not because she had the money to do so… but because of the timing it takes to commute and needing to be available for auditions/callbacks,etc… She makes her money to pay rent as a nanny… but she has been an intern at a major arts organization coordinating playwrights group, formed a professional production company with college friends, has been in several non-equity plays and one-act festivals, as well as an operatic group and sings in a chorus that performed twice at Carnegie Hall recently and will be recording with several major Broadway performers in the coming weeks. She has continued study with Shakespeare & Co, in Lenox and has a summer stock Shakespeare performance training program lined up for this summer for four weeks and does continues to read and evaluate plays for a different organization. All this is great…although she can pay her rent, she has not earned any money in two years other than her nanny/babysitting jobs and thank heavens we can still cover her on our insurance now till age 26. She is starting to think about grad school–MFA Acting programs, also interested in Arts Management/Arts Administration.</p>