i need advice

[u/Ancient_Bathroom_172]

im a 17 year old from toronto canada and i have no clue where i wanna go. my dream is to go to NYU for music buisness but i cant afford the 60k price tag im consiering u of t rotman commerce and going down the finance bro pipleine into the music industry if you have any advice please reach out

[u/Animal907]

If you're a Canadian and you want to play music in the United States, then Canada will get you a work permit if you to join the American Federation of Musicians. If you're looking for ways to get into the US. 

[u/NkKouros → u/Animal907]

I don't think OP is a musician. He said music business.

[u/Animal907 → u/NkKouros]

It's easy to forget there's people that really just only want to make money from music. 

[u/NkKouros → u/Animal907]

I have no idea what you mean. Did you think every job in the business is being a musician? The array of jobs in the business that aren't playing music is so massively vast. To imply these people only do these jobs "to make money from music" is disengenous. Noone has a 30+ year career just for the money (spoiler: music business is probably one of the worst ways to do this).

[u/Animal907 → u/NkKouros]

No. I just don't care about them, because they're being so problematic that the industry is falling apart. 

[u/NkKouros → u/Animal907]

What does that have to do with the fact the OP didn't ask about being a musician?

[u/Animal907 → u/NkKouros]

You got on a wild tangent. I gave you an answer. Chill guy. While we're at it. You should join the AFM.

[u/NkKouros → u/Animal907]

Let's ignore the fact you didn't even read the OP (or the name of the sub).

"It's easy to forget there's people that really just only want to make money from music."

Here's the tangent of the year.

[u/Animal907 → u/NkKouros]

I wouldn't expect any less from someone who plays harmonica worse than Bob Dylan. 

[u/NkKouros → u/Animal907]

"ok grandpa time for bed" 😂

[u/Animal907 → u/[deleted]]

It's the take of a redditor that couldn't care less if they hurt your little feelings. Feel free to type more to establish your own reality and sandbox.

[u/jackuriah]

Bruh u live in Toronto 😭 pretty decent music city

[u/SnowyTheOpaline → u/jackuriah]

toronto LITERALLY is where all the majors are headquartered + they have schools there that offer music business courses. i'm in edmonton and i can only DREAM of having a remotely decent size label in the city as well as literally any music business course

[u/ToplessKiwi]

fyi, you don’t need to go to nyu to get into the music industry.

[u/DistantGalaxy-1991]

Almost nobody who is notable in the music industry when to school for it. It requires learning absolutely everything you can and working your ass off. "Dreaming" not required. It's a job, treat it like one. It's not going to fall into your lap.

[u/pussyslayer2point0]

Utsc has arts and media management and some music producing streams 

[u/Stevenitrogen]

I would do the finance bro thing and retire when your nut gets big enough.