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>>15642102
>bail on the PhD immediately. you will not get a job and you’ll be broke and fucking miserable. Become a dev work for 3 years then get a comfy remote coding job and compose music for vidya
Yeah my gut is telling me to be skeptical about going all in on a composition PhD, but my friend got one and he now works at a university and enjoys his life. I've also been told by a few older classical musicians to go in on a PhD and see what happens as they think my comps are good enough to make it into the academic circuit (two of them premiered this summer)

But when I really think about it, I just don't see how I would make enough money to support a family doing this. The chances of me getting a professorship seem low, especially as universities continue to go fucking insane.

>>15642118
Are you able to get your music heard anywhere in your position? My only concern is that it will be hard if I'm not in the academic institution. A few musicians have performed my pieces but it's not the same as getting it promoted through the colleges like some of my peers.

But I also don't want to be a loser teaching private lessons for $15 an hour for the rest of my life with a wife who resents me for not making enough money

and I know that charles Ives was a insurance salesman who published his classical music on the side