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Ive wanted to work with sound and audio since i was 17. Everything was going really well at one point was getting work building up my system and profoilo nicely. Then i had a spell of very bad luck, which inturn has left me skint as fuck and without a job. Things are slowly getting better for me again but i could really use some full time employment as you cant really do shit when your broke.

Also cheers neddez sounds pretty good im very tempted to fuck off to aus for a year, just as ive heard you can earn a shit load if you work hard and get your head down.
 
i am going to brighton uni in sept - just to enhance my knowledge more than anything, i dont expect it to lead to a job!
 
Tidy, what where you doing? Ive got qualifications as a chef and wages look about $25 an hour.

that was working on a dairy farm (to qualify me for a 2nd working holday Visa you gotta do 88 days 'regional work')
it was hard as shite, 9 hours a day, 7 days a week but i was motivated and willing

that was on $23ish an hour, which is a fairly average wage over there tbh.
 
that was working on a dairy farm (to qualify me for a 2nd working holday Visa you gotta do 88 days 'regional work')
it was hard as shite, 9 hours a day, 7 days a week but i was motivated and willing

that was on $23ish an hour, which is a fairly average wage over there tbh.

What exactly do you mean by regional work man? Like a job to learn about Australian life kinda thing?
 
What exactly do you mean by regional work man? Like a job to learn about Australian life kinda thing?

It goes like this:
If you're between 18-30 you're entitled to ONE working holiday visa (code 417) which grants to 12 months legal employment in Aus.
If you do your 88 days regional work you qualify for a 2nd WHV. But you're only allowed a max of 2. If you wanna work (legally) after that you've gotta become a citizen.

Regional work is mainly bound to post codes, so anywhere outside of the cities really. But the work in those areas is usually farm stuff, could be construction/labouring or conservation etc. Could be paid/unpaid...

Some employers dont give a shit about doing stuff on the books, and they'll pay you 'cash in hand'. I had a bunch of employers like this (I did LOADS of little jobs, where you just help someone clear out their garden for $20-25 an hour. Got paid $100 for 2 hours once). This is kinda cool because you aren't paying tax on it, and obviously you don't need a WHV and could just be on a holiday visa. But in black and white terms it IS illegal.
 
I'd suggest having your primary focus be in a field that you know will be hiring by the time you graduate. Once you've established your primary study, then select a "fun" secondary like music technology, production, etc. There's nothing wrong with studying for a "big boy" job that you know will pay for all the equipment you plan on buying down the road. :)

Cheers.
 
Get a job that pays well, study music by yourself. That's my method, I don't see point in studying something that unreliable, you'll never know do you get a good paying job like that.
 
Im studying Audio Engineering and i love it. I was going to study production but realised that that wouldnt really get me that far and you can pretty much learn it all on the net. but i agree that studying these types of music courses is quite unreliable for when you want to get a job. Realistically out of the 30,40,50 or however many others are studying with you there are only about 3-5 jobs going, so if your serious about it you not only gotta be one of the best but know the right people
 
I've just finished my first year at the Atrium in Cardiff studying Sound Technology. Mixed feelings about the course really - the facilities are great, nice studios complete with Audient desks, Genelec monitors, cutting edge and vintage outboard etc which help greatly to enhance understanding on recording basics, and on paper the course curriculum is very broad (we study modules ranging from musical history, to band production, to electronics, media, synthesis, live sound etc)...however the thing that's letting the course down is the lecturers, they are so lazy, unorganised and full of bullshit it's unbelievable, I have to stop and think sometimes - am I really paying thousands to be sitting in a "Repertoire Production Techniques" lecture at 9AM, listening to a bespectacled 45 year old man wearing a Clint Eastwood waistcoat play a song on youtube that sounds like the demonic and frankly disturbing offspring of Rammstein and Tiesto whilst describing his "sick trip in Bristol over the weekend" (not the 'school trip' type of trip).

All in all, if you really want to work in the industry in future and are willing to endure hours of useless lectures and pointless assignments for the odd golden nugget of information that comes along every few weeks (which WILL help you in the industry), then by all means go for a course such as this, because it will give you valuable experience in areas such as doing live sound and recording a band (including unlimited, FREE studio time using top of the range equipment) which may be hard to come by otherwise. However bear in mind that you will have to withstand twatty, pretentious, borderline dementia-by-drugs lecturers who are stuck in the late 80s, still believing that acid house is the "next big thing", that crappy 10+ minute "prog rock" songs laid down with a shitty sawtooth bass that sounds like a hollow fart is "the way forward" (it is not), and that because the BBC couldn't get hold of Kasabian or Rammstein to do a song for the Dr Who soundtrack, they asked him to do it instead (the natural third choice of course).

Make of that what you will, but I haven't really learned that much so far; the first year just served to help clarify a few things that I wasn't too sure of and to get everyone to the same level (everyone still isn't). I hope that during the next two years the lecturers will start taking it much more seriously, because the next 2 years actually counts towards the degree. if they don't, they can shove their shitty hollow fart sawtooth bass up their arses.

In conclusion, yes the course is worth it because of the facilities alone, but only if you have a high patience threshold because of aforementioned twatty lecturers.

/rant

lmao dude. you got any more stories from your course?
 
I go to a uni called SAE, it's a specialist sound engineering uni with the best equipment and awesome lecturers (well mine for sure anyway) the degree course is 2 years long and it's intensive (48 weeks a year) but by far the most rewarding. I'd highly recommend this if you're into sound because they train you in every aspect of audio, from recording a band to post production to music business and getting your name out there, they also have a good alumni support network.

I sound like a total salesman here but I honestly love my uni and all the work we do there, plus we got 3 access virus' and I'm the only one that uses em!
 
I go to a uni called SAE, it's a specialist sound engineering uni with the best equipment and awesome lecturers (well mine for sure anyway) the degree course is 2 years long and it's intensive (48 weeks a year) but by far the most rewarding. I'd highly recommend this if you're into sound because they train you in every aspect of audio, from recording a band to post production to music business and getting your name out there, they also have a good alumni support network.

I sound like a total salesman here but I honestly love my uni and all the work we do there, plus we got 3 access virus' and I'm the only one that uses em!

Yea i go to SAE aswell, can totally vouch for them!
 
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