BMU, that sounds about right.
For those of you who did sound engineering and now feel that it was perhaps the wrong move, in retrospect ,what do you feel you should have done instead?...
When i studied sound engineering the lectures told me that there is alot of work out there, turns out they just said it to get me to study instead of college B, or C.
so i studied, graded top of my class, worked part time(so i could afford petrol to go to college, petrol was about R5/L back then, i nearly shat myself haha).
i was very fortunate to have my parents support me with this.
as i finished college i started looking around for shadow jobs, or anything, could really find anything, and had to start paying bills, so i got a normal job in the meantime, worked for about 2 years until i saved up some money and made alot of friends and contacts, and then i quit my job to be a live sound engineer.
but still work is hard to find.
i dont say its a bad thing to go into, you'll have lots of fun, wild parties, get to make new friends everyday.
but you really need some balls to take the punch that life is gonna throw at you.
eventually if you do it long enough and do it good you'll get somewhere.
the most important thing is networking with people.
so if you want expierence just go up to someone and say "Hey, can i come help out one night, i really find it interesting what you do, and i'll do it for free" the worst thing that could happen is they can say no.
regardless of how crap of a sound job it looks like.
my favourite job is Stage manager, there is no stress involved and you get to be around people.
Q:what would i do if i didn't study sound and took my path in life?
A:i'd go insane.
