Hi there, I completely understand your dilemma. Grant Cardone a well known successful millionaire investor, has a book called “Be Obsessed or Be Average”. If you think about it all successful musicians from Michael Jackson to Lady Gaga or even Beatles were “Obsessed”. If that’s you then you need to pick up that book. I’m not plugging the book but it’s a great read.

It’s tough when your parents are providing for you because if they are, then they can dictate your life and many young adults rebel against it. Just like myself I grew up in that same mindset because public schools teach us how to be employees not employers. This site teaches three skills all musicians need and that’s: Musicianship, relationships and entrepreneurship.

There are many music jobs out there in the world, here’s a link to many different music jobs in different music categories. Check it out and let me know what you think. Click here.

Hey Mike, thanks for commenting. You know I had the same issue, but there are tons of music industry type jobs that you can apply for. Here’s list of 44 music career choices that you might find interesting. http://thinkingmusician.com/44-music-careers-to-choose-from

It’s always important to do something that you love and remember there are always pros and cons in every field. The question is, how respond to it and how badly do you want it?

Peace

Hi, Shara. That’s a hard predicament, you don’t want to displease your parents. The thing, is your digging yourself in a hole, and it keeps getting bigger. At your age you need to make a hard decision. Pursue college and make your parents happy and yourself miserable or pursue music and become happy and your parents miserable. Either way someone is going to become miserable. At the end day when you lay your head to sleep are you happy? If not, do something about it, make a plan and put it into action.

Will you make mistakes? Of course, everybody fails, but the most successful musicians ever, failed more than you think, but they wanted it more than anything.

Click on this link https://www.nextbigsound.com/industry-report/2013. Here you’ll see that 90.7% of musicians are struggling. That’s 90.7%! Why is that? The answer is, musicians lack certain skills, which creates a cliche that says “If wanna be a successful working musician, then find a real job.”

The skills that musicians and artists lack are relationship and entrepreneurship skills… If all music schools skills taught these skills, that 90.7% could come down to 50% or less and then becoming a musician a would be just another job. Not a dream, but a reachable reality. Learn these skills and watch your chances grow. This site teaches basics, just go through and start learning. Hope that helps.

I believe history is extremely important, because if we don’t know the past we are doomed to repeat it. Buzz Aldrin was one the first men in space, I think that’s a basic fact the every american should know. But as far as the excessive unnecessary education american public education force us is totally useless for success. Convincing parents is hard, because we grew up in a system where we’re taught to go to school, get good grades, go to college, graduate, work for someone for 40 years, retire, then die. We’ve been lied to. Education is very important, but the question is which type of education? Clearly not American education, the World PISA exams ranked US education in the 30’s.

China is number one in education. USA sucks! What musicians lack is business skills that is why parents think it’s hard to make it in the music biz. Musicians don’t want to learn music business and I understand, but it’s important for your success, especially in todays world. Show your parents this site, http://www.oecd.org/pisa/home/ and check out how USA ranks in education. Maybe that’ll help. =)

same bro but it dont matter man,if jimi hendrix can make it then we can to,like eminem said,you can do anything you set your mind to man