{"id":2947,"date":"2008-06-15T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/do-you-need-a-college-degree-for-a-music-career\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T15:40:29","slug":"do-you-need-a-college-degree-for-a-music-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/do-you-need-a-college-degree-for-a-music-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Need a College Degree for a Music Career?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Email question received &#8211; How important is a degree for a career in music?<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey conrad i have an interest in music production\/recording and need some advice if you have the time. Im thinking about school at mtsu outside of nashville and i was wondering about job oppertunities and the long hrs was a concern. Is it long hrs no doubt or does it depend on the area of study? Is a degree a must?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Response<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>A degree or certificate sure looks good on a resume when you&#8217;re starting out. Many people I work with that have good positions for their age have some sort of degree or certification. That being said, I don&#8217;t have any &#8211; but I studied very hard for years at different universities, workshops and with many artists. If I had to do it again, I may have jump started with a degree instead of learning everything the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email question received &#8211; How important is a degree for a career in music? Hey conrad i have an interest in music production\/recording and need some advice if you have the time. Im thinking about school at mtsu outside of nashville and i was wondering about job oppertunities and the long hrs was a concern. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Lx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}