Q: Hı bill,i'm a piano player, i started making music when i was 15 years old and i've been in love with it ever since. Now i'm 18 and i gotta decide what my next move will be. I would really love music as a career but i'm on the fence, i have some doubts. I want to either make music as my career or computer science. My family and friends mostly support the computer science, because pay is better and there are more job opportunities but even though computer science is enjoyable, music is like enjoyable x100. Do i have to go to music school? I mean i have a lots of gaps in my knowledge and i need to fill that. Or i might somehow make two of the choices work at the same time. Did you go to music school? How's the pay for a musician new in the scene? I love playing to a crowd and seeing them enjoy my performance that's one of the many ways of music i love
A: there are many many ways to make a living playing music, and they all may require you to do different things. and they are all a very unpredictable path. it's not like medical school where you just follow orders for 10 years and then you get the trophy ... music is a much more weird and wild career path ...... and many people embark on it and don't find any career at all. it's kind of like magic ...... but if you are crazy enough it should be just fine