I'm about to start college and i don't really know if it's worth to get into a music program and pay money to get a degree in producing music. I don't want to be a top music producer. I just want to make good music and upload it. Is it really necessary to go to some top school for music?
You have to weigh any benefits this college would give you against the cost. Do you feel it's worth it? Is it necessary? Are you guaranteed a job in the field after graduation? Is there a way to learn the same things in a cheaper way by an internship program somewhere?
I've always thought on the job training was much better than book learning. I've basically had to reinvent myself three times, in my life. The second time, I went into computers. I first checked out going to a college to get a computer science degree, but it was far from cheap and it would take four years. I also checked on a Bell and Howell school in the area that was very good, but still, very expensive. And I could take a year long class at a local community college and take nothing but the classes in my field of study. It was basically cramming my head with electronics, both analog and digital, for 11 months. I chose the community college program, because I could live on unemployment while learning. All of the other methods had good names associated with them, but I weighed those names on my resume against the cost and time required for the end result.
After the 11 months, I got a job building computers. I didn't make a lot of money, but I sure gained knowledge about computers and how they worked. I even got into computer repair. I did this for two years and was then offered a job with a computer department that was forming in a corporation. I got in on the ground floor and first there were just two of us with a small 8 computer network. Then, at the end, there were 8 of us with over 500 on a LAN and WAN.
All of this was on the job training. Sure, I had that basic electronics education, but I benifitted from the time I made computers more than anything. So much of it was new and untested, running multiple software on multiple platforms and finding that some of it worked and some of it didn't. No book training in a college could have prepared me for that. My boss was 10 times smarter than I was and had graduated from that Bell and Howell school. He was learning all of this, right along side of me.
What I decided was college is fine, if that's the way you want to go. Also, the expensive name schools can be the right way to go, too. But, it's kind of like buying a name brand Dell computer or a cheaper mom and pop made computer. Is one really better than the other, just because Dell made it or HP? I would never give up what I learned by working on the job. To me, no college could have taught me what I learned that way.