<p>I posted this in another forum because I'm not sure if music would be a safe enough major for me: </p>
<p>Hi! I'm a senior in highschool, and I'm really confused about what I should major in. In the future, I think it'd be cool to have a really adventurous job where I could explore, change lives, learn new things, meet tons of new people, and have a lot of fun! :) I feel like I'll need a job that's not too repetitive (I hate routines) and I don't want to have a typical office/cubicle type job either. I think I'd want a job where I'm pretty much on my feet all day or at least pretty busy mentally (i'd prefer to move around too though). It'd be awesome to have a fun, adventurous type job where I'd get to help people as well. :D I love challenges and I love learning new things, it's just sooo hard to pick a major because I want to make sure I have a job that's fun and exciting. I just want to hear some of your guys's ideas for fun exciting jobs/majors that might interest me because I want to be able to get a job that i'm actually really REALLY excited to go to :) I might major in music because I really love music, but I think i'll need another major that's more secure job wise (it might be hard to find a job with just a music degree. If i can pick a better major, I'll probably just minor in music or just take a few music classes). So throw all your ideas out there for me please! I'll decide what I want to do for myself, but maybe you all have some suggestions/ideas that I haven't thought about yet :) Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>By the way, I really wouldn't mind majoring in music. I think it would be so awesome to play music all day and write my own compositions/scores too! It'd be really cool if I could write music for a movie or something. :D But, my family just wants to make sure I major in something that'll be sure to get me a job after college...and I do too. It'd be pretty scary to be unemployed for my first "real" few years of being on my own without parents or people to help me out you know? </p>
<p>Do you guys know any musicy jobs or other jobs/majors that might work out for me? Thanks!</p>
<p>Music is great; however, if you hate repetition majoring in music PROBABLY won’t be right for you. Do you currently play an instrument at a good level or would you want to go into composition ?</p>
<p>Anyway if you do any performance or even composition, you will be in the practice hour rooms anywhere from 2 hours (only for voice majors as our instruments will tire) - 4 hours (every other instrument). If you are looking at composition you are looking at sitting down with another score or your own compositions for 3 hours a day maybe more? Plus all the intense and difficult music theory courses. Do you have a good ear?</p>
<p>Now I am MOST certainly not dicouraging anyone from being a music major but in order to get a degree in music, a BM anyway (and even though a BA is going to be less of a time comitment it will still be a MAJOR), there is going to be tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of repetition. And to major in music you will have to LOVE almost 90% of that repetition(save for some aural skills and weird music theory classes).</p>
<p>Also you might want to go into the Music Administration business, which CAN be interesting and very fufilling(most of them, however, are simply fundraisers because music does NOt get great funding).</p>
<p>You might want to major in psychology or philosophy, both very interesting, opportunities to go to law school, become a counselor/therapist/social worker. You may want to do stuff in business or perhaps realestate? I can’t tell you what you want to do. You have to find something you are really passionate about( or at least like a LOT) in order to stay sane.(However it depends if you just want to work to meet ends meat and have a lovely personal family and friend life, which is perfectly fine or work for something you have a passion for)</p>
<p>Music can be one of the hardest majors, comparable to premed science in some schools. Theory/aural training, music history, composition, ethnomusicology and performance are all part of music training, and also work in music and technology.</p>
<p>You can get a job with a music major, but more to the point is the kind of commitment needed for the study of music itself, in order to get the degree. What do you play? Do you already compose? What kind of music?</p>
<p>If you are undecided, sometimes the best thing to do is go to the college you choose, as an undecided major, explore for a couple of years, then declare a major when you have to, usually end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>Try to study what you enjoy, and the rest will follow. If you are lucky you will be able to work at something you enjoy, or at least something that you don’t dislike…</p>
<p>MusicKnight, I just love your enthusiasm! I’m sure this is not what you had in mind, but the first thing that popped into my head when I read the description of your ideal job was “High School Marching Band Director”!</p>
<p>Almost every profession, bar none, has a certain amount of drudgery to it. In music performance, practicing is a very repetitive thing, and you have to often slog through things like a chamber group that isn’t so good, a lousy conductor in a student orchestra, theory or something taught by someone who is as dull as an old knife…and in music there can be some pretty boring jobs used to pay the bills, too…</p>
<p>One question is what do you mean about majoring in music? Are you talking music performance? If so, what instrument (s) do you play? Music performance isn’t like majoring in accounting or psychology, they are generally auditioned programs where you need to be at a pretty high level to get in. It isn’t like typical UG, where you come into college, not sure what you want to do, start our pre med/chemistry, then decide to do comp sci or something.You don’t enter school and then say “oh, yeah, I want to major in violin performance” and pick up a violin and do that, it doesn’t work like that. …hence my question. </p>
<p>You could major in music academically, music history, ethomusicology, for a ba degree…but those are generally designed around someone who thinks they want to go on to grad school for a PHd and teach. </p>
<p>One thought, given your parameters, might be to get a degree in psychology or social work and become a therapist, it is helping people, it isn’t the 9-5 slog, and it is always different.</p>
<p>You might want to look at an Arts Management major, such as is offered at Baldwin Wallace University. They have at least two tracks within the program and some awesome field work opportunities.</p>
<p>I taught myself piano and I’ve played the alto saxophone since 6th grade. I also taught myself guitar. I LOVE practicing music and listening to music, I guess I just hate doing things I don’t enjoy everyday… Idk sorry for the confusion, but I do love working hard and trying to be the best musician that I can be I guess I just don’t like doing easy boring things repetitively. I need a good challenge to keep me going. </p>
sorry for the confusion, but I do love working hard and trying to be the best musician that I can be 
I guess I just don’t like doing easy boring things repetitively. I need a good challenge to keep me going. </p>