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Originally Posted by terriblecanyons

so i think i've decided on fort collins, but if that doesn't work out i have other options too. hopefully i'll be okay. an AFA might not get me anywhere but i'm hoping it'll get me into a good school somewhere so i can continue with my education.

yo, krayolas...

been thinking about this post and was going to send you a PM about it but i thought to add, besides my best wishes...

i hope you get to continue working in your music career in CO. education is good, but as someone who got too much of it and also worked in it for a while (and continues to have connections w/ the higher education industry), i should give you warning that education does not prepare you for "the real world". the real world of art and commerce is very different from academia and it follows very different rules. and school can delay your entry into it. so this is just to encourage you to keep connected with the music business in some shape or form while you go to school. that way your education and your work can actually feed of each other, theory + practice.

best,

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ps - bytor who just posted above this has a friend who is a professional musician and if i recally plays with/for kelly clarkson. so i'll assume he makes a decent living. keyboards too, i think? i'd bug him for pointers.