<p>Yes to everything violadad said. Also, read thoroughly your school’s and or teacher’s rules/preferences for gigs. Some encourage them, some discourage them. Some schools have rules about what happens if you skip class for a gig, or have limits on what you can skip. Most schools would never allow you to miss a rehearsal or concert for a gig. (My S’s school allows you to request at the beginning of the semester to not be in a certain concert for any reason - so if you know far enough ahead of time, you can get out of it. And he can get excused if the gig is high profile. He does accept high paying gigs that require him to skip class, with the full knowledge that his grades may suffer.)</p>
<p>Most of his gigs come through networking - at first via classmates, and then one gig tends to lead to another…</p>