/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.53569782]

>Bachelor’s of Music

[Anonymous No.53569788]

>>53569782
kek

[Anonymous No.53569804]

>be weeb at 18
>just wanted to go to Japan
>study Japanese major
>live in Japan after graduation
>hours and wages are ass
>dream shattered

Now I have a useless degree except if I want to do translation, and I don’t want to. I’m going back to school for another degree but I haven’t decided which one yet.

[Anonymous No.53569832]

>>53569782
Player pianos or pianolas were invented in late 19th century, what the hell were you thinking? Why would someone need a "bachelor of music" when you could buy a pianola to play your favorite songs? Not to mention music is already in mp3 format, which people can download for free in the web, music boy.

[Anonymous No.53569879]

M.S. in I/O Psychology

[Anonymous No.53569895]

>BoA Philosophy

[Anonymous No.53569911]

same, learn to code or get forklift certified. my spotify royalty check doesnt pay for my spotify subscription

[Anonymous No.53569925]

>>53569782
it’s over anon

[Anonymous No.53569931]

>>53569782
>Bachelor

[Anonymous No.53569967]

>>53569804
Ima stop you right here annon. You're going to college without a plan and your previous plan you had fell apart when you realized it was not what you expected. Spend some time doing other jobs before you jump back into the college wheel.

[Anonymous No.53569973]

Teachers who pushed the "do what you love and the money will come eventually" meme should be shot.

[Anonymous No.53569975]

>>53569804
Ay bro look on the bright side. You’ve managed to finish your degree and experience living in another culture. That’s something to be proud of, I started at 18 as well and will be taking 7 years to finish my first degree lol. Might go to Japan for a vacay some time

[Anonymous No.53569989]

>>53569782
tfw i used to be a band director

[Anonymous No.53569995]

>>53569782
>I may have a worthless degree, but I have mastered FL Studio

Any other musicians on here? Let’s make some /biz/ music.

[Anonymous No.53570015]

>>53569995
I only learned how to write in western notation with Finale and Sibelius in music school. But I recently got FL and started playing around with it. What are the best resources I can use to learn the workflow?

[Anonymous No.53570018]

>>53569973
Thing is if he was actually a unique talent in music he would have money. Either he doesn’t have the aptitude or didn’t work hard enough, you would think someone that didn’t have at least the potential for music wouldnt go into it for a degree though. Fact is people go into “meme” degrees because they seem easier or more fun than the hard stuff a lot of the time but that’s just an illusion. They can still be lucrative but are actually hyper competitive. As a percentage, way more of the stem/business degrees can make decent money but the top performers in the arts mog their salaries and lifestyle hard. The arts are the easiest to complete but in terms of achieving success they are the hardest. It’s ok to go into them but Anyone going into them should be prepared to work 10x harder then the kids in stem

[Anonymous No.53570022]

>>53570015
Unironically YouTube

[Anonymous No.53570028]

>>53569804
>>just wanted to go to Japan
>>study Japanese major
You realize you could've just saved up a few grand and gone to japan without paying thousands upon thousands of dollars, possibly going into debt, and wasting 4 years of your life on a completely useless degree, right?

[Anonymous No.53570044]

>>53569782
>phd computer science
I came across a bake sale for some kids extracurricular today and I gave them $200 for a loaf of banana bread, feels really really good man. The bread aint half bad either.

[Anonymous No.53570048]

>>53570018
I did it because it seemed easier; it was. I thought being a HS band director would be easy. Turns out it was fucking hard. And the pay was shit. And I was sent to bumfuck nowhere to solo direct a grades 6-12 program. God what hell that was. Good thing I turned my career around and 5x'd my income. Music is a fun hobby that I want to get back into so I can be in touch with my creative side.

>>53570022
Any channels that aren't total bullshit?

[Anonymous No.53570065]

>>53570044
>phd computer science
Checked. I got my cs masters fresh out of my bachelors program because it was paid for already so why the fuck not. But I figured a PhD would just be overkill based on demand for it unless I really wanted to do something like data science. Did you feel like it was worth getting your PhD if you had to do it over again?

[Anonymous No.53570078]

>>53570065
>worth
totally, I'd do it again twice. But I had a good advisor, that's the make or break

[Anonymous No.53570083]

>>53570048
I haven’t gone on YouTube for FL tutorials in years. But a lot of these people give ridiculous advice and workarounds that can be achieved with simpler methods. My only advice is this:

1. When starting a new flp, open up a Maximus channel in your master track, use the setting “maximum loudness without saturation” and bring the bass level down a bit.

2. Use this setting when putting things together, tweak some extra things in EQ 2 if things are too crisp.

3. Export Wav track when finished. Then open up a new flp, import your wav into the playlist, and use izotope’s Ozone 10 to give your track a final master. You can adjust things from there.

My songs come out loud without distortion every time.

[Anonymous No.53570093]

>>53570083
that's why I am reticent to open YouTube; the quality on that platform is getting worse every single day. I might go back to Image-Line's site as a resource. thanks

[Anonymous No.53570122]

>>53570048
What did you transition to from a high school band director that made 5x your income?

[Anonymous No.53570195]

>>53570122
Y-2: started no-name regional uni M.Ed degree while teaching band
Y-1 still studying and teaching and suffering
Y0: graduated with M.Ed, quit job, immediately cashed out pathetic teacher pension and went to Japan to find myself (and inadvertently fucked a lot of 40 year old Japanese women that creamed for this BWC -- highly recommended to anyone).
Y+1: Got a job across the pond in Southeast China teaching computer classes at a regional Chinese university. 2 days on campus a week for "middle class" play in China which was pretty good. Started learning programming more deeply
Y+2: Laid off from the uni, kept bumming around in China on temp visas, Did some side web development work on UpWork and for some friends
Y+3: Did some international student consulting work while still bumming around
Y+4: Back to the USA, got my CompSci teaching Certificate and got a job at a high school again. Started weekend masters classes at a big brand name /biz/ school at flagship well-recognized university. Started a startup focused on digital marketing.
Y+5: Sold my startup and I graduated from /biz/ school. Got a job at major university in my state running an on-site to cloud Sharepoint migrations and managing hourly student wagies in a callcenter to help senile professors reset passwords
Y+6: to today: I now work in sales for a very well recognized tech company and make much more than I did waving a baton at children and telling clarinets to shut the fuck up

[Anonymous No.53570359]

>>53569782
This is srsly why I became a bartender! It’s exhausting sometimes but lately I’ve been working 3 days a week and life isn’t too bad. Lots of dating opportunities too if you’re interested. I have a chick rn but I get passes from women all the time; it’s fr a good gig and hidden gem.

[Anonymous No.53570383]

>>53570195
Nice, so basically you do tech sales now? I was considering going into this after i'm done my undergrad but since its a sales job, although I'm decent at sales, I worry the income would be unstable

[Anonymous No.53570406]

>>53570383
My advice to you if you want the warp speed ultimate hack is to just go straight through and get your MBA at the highest possible ranked school you can get into. Finance it 100% with those Biden loans, make sure you Max them out to account for your cost of living. Do not, I repeat do not fall victim to the private loans which you will undoubtedly get unsolicited offers in the mail for at what seems to be attractive interest rates. The government loans have much better terms. When you apply to business school, just lie and say you did internships at the most prestigious firm of the field you were trying to get into. I promise they will not check and will never find out. Congratulations you just fast-tracked yourself to the upper middle class with the chance to actually make it in the corporate career track.

[Anonymous No.53570415]

>>53570383
And yes, I do enterprise trch sales and the pay mix is very reasonable at this level. 70% salary, 30% incentive pay.

[Anonymous No.53570416]

>>53569782
>Doctor of Medicine
Thank god I made the patricians choice.

[Anonymous No.53570427]

>>53570406
About the internships, what I mean is that most schools that are actually worth a damn will require two years of professional management experience. Just look up the LinkedIn profiles of successful graduates and current students and emulate what they are doing. Just lie because the corpo career track basically requires you to be, at a minimum, slightly psychopathic

[Anonymous No.53570428]

>>53570406
don't you need some work experience to get into a top mba though? my undergrad gpa is shitty cuz i fucked up the beginning years due to mental illness and inability to adapt. I've grown a lot so I don't have any regrets but it def changed what paths I can take

[Anonymous No.53570441]

>>53570406
>just lie and say you did internships at the most prestigious firm of the field you were trying to get into. I promise they will not check and will never find out. Congratulations you just fast-tracked yourself to the upper middle class with the chance to actually make it in the corporate career track.
Do they really not check? That seems like a massive oversight lol

[Anonymous No.53570444]

>>53570428
Here's what you do. Do interviews with people in your target professions on LinkedIn and learn what they do, so whenever the time comes to interview with your target schools, you can just BS. Definitely definitely lie on the applications. I know the kinds of persons who are screening these applications, because I used to work at a university, and most of them will not be able to tell as long as you are cool and not autistic

[Anonymous No.53570450]

>>53570428
I mean fulltime work experience, as in they won't take students straight out of undergrad with only internship work

[Anonymous No.53570452]

>>53570441
They are under resourced and do not have time to check into your shit.

[Anonymous No.53570453]

>>53570444
haha I may actually do this. I really hope you're telling the truth here and I can somehow fraud my way into a top mba in the US (i'm canadian).
>inb4 blacklisted from every reputable mba program

[Anonymous No.53570457]

>Food Science

[Anonymous No.53570465]

>>53570453
You have to be able to fit in with the other privileged MBA types who worked for their dad's firm or similar. You can do it Anon, I don't want you to suffer like I did.

>>53570457
Picrel

[Anonymous No.53570503]

>>53569782
This has got to be the worst degree you can possibly get unless you just love music theory and hate money. Even gender studies is at least funny and probably piss easy, and can even possibly get you a real job.

[Anonymous No.53570510]

>>53570503
Is "gender studies" really a thing in the us? I'm from east eu aka shitpooristan and we don't have that here. Sounds absolutely impossible, like who the fuck came up with this shit?

[Anonymous No.53570512]

>>53569782
>gets creative degree
>doesn't be creative with it and instead mass applies to faggy jobs then gives up without ever even trying
time to make a youtube and a stream and put an effort in

[Anonymous No.53570520]

>>53570503
I really wish someone had told me this when I was 18 and stupid

[Anonymous No.53570522]

>>53570465
Thanks bro, I may be able to get a decent job out of undergrad if I hustle hard the next couple years (looks 50/50 rn) but if I can't this is definitely something I'll keep in the back pocket.

[Anonymous No.53570542]

>>53570510
I'll give you one guess. Pic relatd

>>53570512
YouTube is so incredibly saturated, the chances of starting a new channel and having success in 2023 or slim to none

[Anonymous No.53570553]

>>53570522
>>53570522
Make sure that when you start applying to jobs, you maximize the numbers. Quantity of applications matters just as much as quality. Hint: hire a third worlder from UpWork to do your applications for you. Good luck!

[Anonymous No.53570586]

>>53570553
>Hint: hire a third worlder from UpWork to do your applications for you. Good luck!
LOL based, will take a look at this

[Anonymous No.53570634]

>>53569804
Kek many such cases.

[Anonymous No.53570659]

>>53570553
>>53570586
That’s pre 2022 anon…
Now just get chatgpt to write cover letters for you that are highly customized and passes their automated filtering process.

[Anonymous No.53570823]

>>53569782
This is srsly why I became a bartender! It’s exhausting sometimes but lately I’ve been working 3 days a week and life isn’t too bad.