Your parents let you drop out of school at 17 and try to become a musician? Why did they let you do that?
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Did I ruin my life?
- Thread starter azfryguy
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I just told them im not gonna go any more I had really bad angxioty(spelling) and for reason couldn go
my dad hardly knows I live here anymore and my mom is a party animal so ya
my dad hardly knows I live here anymore and my mom is a party animal so ya
I spent years going to college to get my BA in political science. I'd been planning on being teacher pretty much as far back as I can remember. Most of my friends are teachers. My dad was a teacher (then he was a high school principal, now he's retired). I started teaching...and found out I hated it. Hated the little punks 
Didn't want to teach them the stuff they were supposed to learn, and they didn't want to learn it.
So, I was depressed and had no idea what to do, and was complaining about it all to a friend of mine who's an RN. He told me about a lot of different jobs at the hospital...I thought x-ray sounded interesting, checked out a program at a nearby community college, and now I do that for a living (and my starting pay with a 2-year degree was higher than a teacher with a master's degree at that time!). Greatest decision I could have made.
Get your GED and start looking at the local community colleges for heathcare job training programs. The market for them tends to be cyclical, but they're virtually always in some demand, especially if you're flexible in where you'll live or commute to and what hours you're willing to work (and if you're a single guy, there shouldn't be too many problems with that). The bass player/singer in Slayer is a respiratory therapist, and he used his job doing that to fund his band in their early days and support himself until he could make more money playing.
One little word of advice: stay away from the private trade schools. Stay away from the limited sort of healthcare jobs (like LVN instead of RN, or limited-license x-ray tech instead of radiologic technologist). The jobs pay little, there's little demand for them, and if you go through a private place, they'll be expensive as hell.
Didn't want to teach them the stuff they were supposed to learn, and they didn't want to learn it. So, I was depressed and had no idea what to do, and was complaining about it all to a friend of mine who's an RN. He told me about a lot of different jobs at the hospital...I thought x-ray sounded interesting, checked out a program at a nearby community college, and now I do that for a living (and my starting pay with a 2-year degree was higher than a teacher with a master's degree at that time!). Greatest decision I could have made.
Get your GED and start looking at the local community colleges for heathcare job training programs. The market for them tends to be cyclical, but they're virtually always in some demand, especially if you're flexible in where you'll live or commute to and what hours you're willing to work (and if you're a single guy, there shouldn't be too many problems with that). The bass player/singer in Slayer is a respiratory therapist, and he used his job doing that to fund his band in their early days and support himself until he could make more money playing.
One little word of advice: stay away from the private trade schools. Stay away from the limited sort of healthcare jobs (like LVN instead of RN, or limited-license x-ray tech instead of radiologic technologist). The jobs pay little, there's little demand for them, and if you go through a private place, they'll be expensive as hell.
Sorry to drop in on this so late. To answer OP's question, no, you haven't ruined your life. Dropping out of school wasn't the smartest thing to do but you can still go back and finish. I dropped out of school when I was 15. Went back and got my GED at 17 then went to night school and got my high school diploma when I was 19. Went on to college after that and got an AS in Criminal Justice when I was 27.
Music is not an easy path to making a living and, sadly, just being talented is not enough in itself to guarantee big time success. There are literally millions of very talented musicians out there but the odds of any one in particular making it big are very very slim. I'm not saying you should give up on music but just telling it like it is. Get your education and get a career and keep on playing, gigging and recording and doing your thing. Who knows, maybe it'll happen for you some day.
Music is not an easy path to making a living and, sadly, just being talented is not enough in itself to guarantee big time success. There are literally millions of very talented musicians out there but the odds of any one in particular making it big are very very slim. I'm not saying you should give up on music but just telling it like it is. Get your education and get a career and keep on playing, gigging and recording and doing your thing. Who knows, maybe it'll happen for you some day.
Just wanted to say I was pleasantly surprised by your youtube videos.
I'm also glad that you are going to get an education, definitely worth it. I know many people who would be much better off if they had.
I'm also glad that you are going to get an education, definitely worth it. I know many people who would be much better off if they had.
