jobs for a music producer

[Peak0ck]

so i've been looking for a job for a while, and i can't really decide on what to do. i'd like it to be better than working at a 711, and working from home would be ideal. im sure some of you do something from home, and i'm just wondering what some of my options are. suggest whatever you know about? and no, i'm not going to be a worm farmer

[Peak0ck]

oh and btw im 17, but have my high school diploma. idk if that limits any of my options or not

[fragments]

You've got a better chance of paying your bills working at the 711, more than likely.

[zerbaman]

Applying for work, particularly unsupervised work as you'd be working from home, is difficult if you've only got a high-school diploma.

Try getting in with some local mastering houses.

[Blingley]

Most vacancies where you work from home are more or less expert-level jobs. Things where you're not needed constantly, because your knowledge is highly specialized on something. Information Systems Science has some of these, for example.

The other option is to get a job where you can freelance and work at home. Designing webpages is a relatively common one, and one that does not need a very high level of expertise.

[ehbes]

Work at 711 and go to college if you can

[ultraspatial]

sell crack
make trap bangers

[RhodeRachel]

I know it may be a long shot, but look into blogging with a Google Blogger account. You can set up an AdSense account and put ads on your blog, and if you can direct enough traffic to your page you supposedly could make some decent bucks, even if it only serves as supplemental income. I have one going myself called Dubstep Production Tips (http://dubstepproductiontips.blogspot.com/) and to be honest I haven't made very much yet lol but that's because I only started posting about a month ago. I've heard if you keep at it long enough and get a following, that's really when you start making some bills. Not sure how true some of the stories are, but it's an intriguing concept nonetheless and is something you can do from home or anywhere else with an internet connection.

[Coolschmid]

This is why we go to college.

[FAARE FACED]

This is why we go to college.

qft.

Play safe. Without proper education, if you don't make it in the music industry, it's almost sure you'll spend the rest of your life with a ridiculous wage, struggling to pay the bills each month.

[BloomingAudioLife]

look for a job at any movie theaters round where you live. solid.

[CYRHEN]

sell crack
make trap bangers

Lmao can we make this a shirt please?

[ehbes]

sell crack
make Pkay trap bangers

[Sharmaji]

This is why we go to college.

I went to college for something entirely different from music and now my job is producing music, so.... take from that what you will.

If you're producing, your job should be to PRODUCE. Not just sit and tweak but actually create, bring to fruition, insipire others to create, collaborate on, and just generally MAKE music. If you don't produce any sort of final product you can't actually call yourself a producer per se.

W/ that said, sideline gigs often include teaching-- i know very few musicians who don't maintain some sort of roster of students-- being a teaching artist, and other sorts of work-for-hire situations.

If you need something entirely outside of music, be a waiter, work at starbucks or get a gig hustling real estate.

But otherwise, PRODUCE!!!

[samurai]

reading this thread makes me feel like a genius...

[jaydot]

You need to be on top of your game to make p's from music and I'm not, so will just leave it as a hobby.

[zakski]

Get a god damn education.

[breakitdown]

A bit of a tangent, but i'm looking for some people to help with content on my tutorial sites for Massive, FM8, Reaktor and Absynth.

I can pay of course, so if you want some $$ in exchange for some music production knowledge give me a shout.

Mail me at info@massivesynth.com if you are keen.

[deadly_habit]

A bit of a tangent, but i'm looking for some people to help with content on my tutorial sites for Massive, FM8, Reaktor and Absynth.

I can pay of course, so if you want some $$ in exchange for some music production knowledge give me a shout.

Mail me at info@massivesynth.com if you are keen.

Can vouch for Steve as I've been doing videos for him and it's a nice on the side additional income and he's a great guy to do contracted work with, plus you get to talk about and share your passion to a larger audience while teaching them while making some $ for it. How awesome is that?

I will emphasize try going to college man, I'm 30 now and just finally going to school due to needing a comp sci degree to get hired and taken more seriously even though I've been programming since I was 12.
Personally I made the mistake of joining the army, and putting it off until now, and also the pipedream of full time music (it was probably because I was focusing on niche subgenres like DnB and Dubstep looking back).

At 17 your adult life is just about to start. If you want to stay in music with just a HS education, try to get an internship at a local studio or if you're lucky a manufacturing plant for vinyl/cds.
Learning to track/record bands, mixing, and mastering is what you should focus on, be it hip hop, indie rock, pop whatever gets thrown your way. An internship at a real studio will let you observe this stuff firsthand and view how pros work with amateurs, pros work with pros, and you should learn tricks and get to use some nice gear in the process. The main thing is during the process you will gain industry contacts and start to develop relationships with artists. This comes in handy if you strike it out on your own or change shops.

Go for that job at 7-11 as a side steady income for now, and in your free time do what you passion dictates. If that means 8 hours at 7-11, 8 hours interning at a local studio getting coffee and beers for the engineer and artists, come home and pass out at your computer while trying to work on your own music do it. A steady source of income is important until you can be sure you can just work from home and have a sustainable income from that.

As Sharmaji said, he knows well, If you put in the work and sacrifice (believe me there can be a lot of it) you will start to make headway, but it is a long and stressful path starting out. Also be realistic, when I mention hip hop, pop, rock, metal and working in a studio, this will be your bread and butter starting out. Don't have some pipedream you are the next Skream or Skrillex, well have that dream and goal (always laying out goals on paper worked for me and I've attained most of them all in small steps over the years_, but have a backup plan if reality steps in, like working at a studio, and worst comes to worst a shitty convenient mart/gas station job that takes 0 brain cells to do, be the wage monkey and bring a laptop for off time heh.

Welcome to adulthood, and I would mail you this if I had your addy since I'm cleaning my room, but this book may be worth a gander http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Home-Re ... 1423454464

The key is making it in the real world while transitioning the skills to your private life until you have enough knowledge and basic gears to be "that guy" who can record you for cheaper than the studio you work for, or you have lesser gear but have skills to make it sound good etc.
Life is all about learning and then capitalizing, but at the same time don't screw over the people you learn from.

Also ghostwriting and ghostengineering pays well if you're in a tight spot and skilled, http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=264934 .
Good luck bro, any questions feel free to post or PM me, I have no qualms talking about my life.
Mike

[deadly_habit]

Oh yeah and if you don't want to just eat ramen or like shit, get to know your local farmers market and buy canned tuna.
Tuna fish + light mayo + cut celery+ cut onions and spice etc to taste even just salt & pepper = mix for quick tuna sandwiches that taste better and end up cheaper than ramen (the producers cheap meal)
FARMERS MARKET, AMISH WHATEVER HAGGLE FOR FRUITS AND VEGGIES.
life lesson man heh, eating and sleeping well is key