I taught music (and performing arts for a long time in college 16-20yr olds, and while studying music, some were also playing, producing and recording it - for themselves or for other people. They cleared off to university and carried on, and we had a degree level programme running in the end ourselves. I've kept in touch with loads of them, and some are pro musicians, a few are touring sound people, some touring worldwide, some just Europe and the UK. A few have recording studios, and record other people, but quite a few produce production tracks. If I have to generalise, there are a few important things. These are NOT the lazy kids, and they are not those who came to college to produce their own music and bugger everyone else - we always had students who would volunteer to play on anything, but also those that would only work on music they liked. Some were naturally talented, others had to work hard, but the ones currently working in the industry I could have guessed in the first 4 weeks of meeting them. So many were never going to make it. That's a bit sad, but I don't think unfair.
Jobs wise - those people were out there, playing and earning before they went to university. My question is a tough one. If you are going to make it in the industry, then you will already be doing things now. If you are not doing anything now, ask yourself why not? You might have reasons, but the likely one is you have not tried hard enough. School will give you a grounding but you need to really be doing it. Doesn't matter at what level. So those interesting in audio might be recording, or playing in bands, or maybe involved in amateur dance, performing or acting organisations. If your interested are in other allied areas, like lighting or video - they can always be wrapped around audio products. I guess you have a DAW and do some recording already? What kind of things do you record? What do you do with them?
Some people don't go to university with any pre-exisiting skills, and they have the hardest time, and frankly, they go off and do other things. How does this fit with you?