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sounds very similar to what i can do with my philosophy degree
Or my English degree.
I wonder if this will convince my boyfriend to turn his career path around before it’s too late!(he has a conditional acceptance right now- there’s still time!) lol.
at least you know the truth
yep… I wanted to be a music major. Then I found out that most people who have music degrees work as door to door salesmen, telemarketers, or as other such jobs that are totally unrelated.
As far as performing… most people you hear on the radio are completely musically illiterate.
For manipulating sound… you can do more with that if you have a degree in physics. I know people who do that.
I was a music major, and I agree that people you hear on the radio are completely musically illiterate. However, people that get music degrees don’t (I hope) perform pop music. They would perform classical (which is what I hope to perform) or jazz. Pop music sucks and doesn’t require any musical training to perform.
Also, there is a genre of music where you simply manipulate sound and a physics degree would be great for it, it’s called techno
“Pop music sucks…” Yes, that’s why no one listens to it and classical music dominates our culture.
Just because it’s more complicated doesn’t mean it’s better. The Rolling Stones can elicit emotions equal to Beethoven (or better) even without being his musical equal. (Two of my favorites)
I don’t agree that the Rolling Stones can elicit emotions as well as Beethoven, but their music isn’t the music I’m talking about (whileI do enjoy the Rolling Stones and other music of that genre). I’m talking about modern pop music, like Britney Spears and Avril Livigne and Hannah Montana and nonsense like that. This kind of pop music sucks. This is the kind of music that doesn’t need any training or experience to perform, that’s all I’m talking about.
Also just because their music is extraordinarily popular doesn’t make it good.
You cannot eat “good”, but Britney seems to be eating just fine.
I actually taught myself a good deal of music theory. Admittedly I’m into metal which doesn’t require much of it, but if I wanted to learn more, I could probably take a class or something. But I wouldn’t go for a degree.
I’ve been wanting to work in computer graphics. Although I also plan on raising a family at some point so I really just want to have a well-paying job that I’ll enjoy.
You didn’t have to say you like metal. I kind of figured that from your screen name.
Since raising a family requires good pay and a steady income, I would recommend against computer graphics.
Since GIMP came with my Dell and I can screw around with it for free, I have.
..and since that cost me nothing, why would I charge for basic edits? Minimum wage? Sounds great! That’s what I get at BK and I could use a calmer job.
I don’t recommend trying to out-compete me and raise a family at the same time.
Depends what you mean with computer graphics… 90% of the people I graduated with in graphics are doing well with a steady job and income, the other 10% decided to freelance…
You think he’d have worn a nicer shirt for that video if he wants to solicit business.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, “Why does it work?”
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?”
The graduate with an Accounting degree Asks, “How much will it cost?”
The graduate with a Music degree asks, “Do you want fries with that?”
How did you guess? I’m currently working at McDonald’s in between 2 musical studies, just to make a living.
This is also applicable for those with a degree in Painting. Ask me how I know that.
How do you know that?
what about several music degrees? I have several music degrees, and I’m not poor!
If you’re banging PH then your IQ can’t be higher then 10.
No, idiot, that’s my co(k girth!
And probably gets to listen to a lot of his own compositions…
*facepalm*
If you’re banging PH then your IQ can’t be higher then 10.
Where have I heard that before?
Your mom’s PH is higher than 10..
chemistry reference win
That should have been typed a pH, not PH. Chemistry reference FAIL.
I wanted to be a music major. But I figured I liked to eat, too, and I couldn’t get those two desires to meet up (at least, with my level of talent)…
You can always double-major with something useful if you have the time/money/patience/stamina to do so.
Haha. Yes. Music degrees are for those that want to teach it. The rest of us that just enjoy playing it can learn from those guys.
Haha! Love the graph. Love making fun of our own kind.
Husband and I both have music degrees. He makes a fine living as a jazz pianist. I am a sax player and arranger. We are far from poverty, in fact, own our home outright and have a debt free life.
Still, we like a good trombone player/pizza delivery guy joke.
You’re a lucky lucky person. Very few get that opportunity and still have the time to enjoy it. Now, did you buy your house just to have somewhere to store all the boxes of sheet music? Hmmm?
Actually the 3 car garage is devoted to storage of electronic gear. A car has never crossed it’s threshold.
The question is: Would I encourage young people into a music career and college degree?
Depends.
If college is free (via scholarships) then, Go for it.
For me, it was a necessary maturation process, but I do not believe I learned my craft (my skill set) in college. It only comes with time and experience.
You cannot beat doing what you love to do. But, it is not always glamorous. All across the nation there is a set of everyday working musicians, who are family men/women, and not drug abusers or alcoholics that are the backbone of the gigging musician scene who will never be famous. I’m happy with that.
Story of my life. Been out of a real music teaching job for three years now.
Ooh, can we tell instrument jokes now?
Q. How do you know you have a section of violas at your door?
A. They can’t find the key and don’t know when to come in.
I’m sorry, not everyone can play a pansy insturment like the Violin. And not all of us want to carry around a friggin chello.
Plus, of course we don’t know when to come in, there’s no conductor at your doorstep.
A conductor and a violist are standing in the middle of the road. which one do you run over first, and why?
The conductor. Business before pleasure.
erm, excuse me, but have you ever TRIED playing the violin? it’s not easy. at all. everyone i know who plays other instruments and then tries to play the violin is completely befuddled.
any competent musician should know when to come in without a conductor. you watch the first violinist for the downbeat, and then COUNT.
and you spelled cello wrong.
I decided to learn to play the violin a year ago, just for making one of my life aspirations come true. It’s very dificult, but with (almost) daily training and my classes on saturday, and of course with a lot of passion for it, I’m getting the hang of it! But of course, I could never hope to make a living out of it, I’d starve to death!
What’s the difference between a violin and a viola?
1. The viola burns longer.
2. The viola holds more beer.
3. You can tune the violin.
I find that to be more of an issue with celli.
“Die in Poverty.” < You mean like Jesus? Sounds noble.
So long as we don’t have to die on a cross with a sword in our sides, I’m cool with being Jesus-noble.
Lighten up, Francis.
You called me Francis, I’m gunnahavta kill you now.
Was a spear, and Jesus didn’t die in poverty. He died a criminal, bit of a difference, look it up.
(Note: before everyone and thier mother flames me for that, being a criminal isn’t a statement on his character or his teachings, just a matter of fact.”
Poverty and criminal aren’t mutually exclusive. He was homeless, had no money, told His followers not to even take extra clothes with them when they went town-to-town. That’s definitely poverty, even if it was chosen poverty.
Unfortunately, I am now graduating (I’m done school, but the ceremony and all the official crap is next month) with a music degree. I should have switched majors halfway through when the department head stepped down and we got a new one. Who is a HUGE bitch.
Long story short, DO NOT GET A MUSIC DEGREE. Unless you get more than one degree and get another in something that’s not music.
Go Michael J. Nelson.
I know a Michael J. Nelson. He is my brother in law. He started college as a music major. He said it was the biggest waste of 2 semesters ever. Then he switched his major to biochemistry, and now he has a Ph. D. in pharmacy. He makes lots of money.
OK, even though I did follow up a BA in music by attending a tech school to learn the electronics skills that got me a job at UNL Engineering, I don’t regret the music degree even a little bit. At age 51, the training I got had a huge payoff in writing/arranging/performing/recording over the years, and today I’m literally doing all the music my aging body can handle, though the electronics still pays the bills. No regrets here!
Neuroscience and music double. Yin and yang.
Make sure you get some lab experience as an undergrad. My advisor forgot to mention that part. I have a BS in Biology, BA in Chemistry and am currently a Barista.
ooh, you can have a lot of fun with psychoacoustics…
Same goes for a Teachers degree.
aw, video was removed before I got to see it…
LMAO. I’m in that boat. I’m majoring in art at the moment, and I’m really starting to reconsider it. I’m half-way through and wondering, “Should I just count my loses now and switch majors, or keep going with it and see where it takes me?” I’m paying for all of my education, and I don’t want to waste a dime, because damn, is it expensive. I supposed that if all else fails, I’ll have the best decorated box on skid road.
switch to digital media and/or graphic design. You still get to be creative and artistic, but people will pay you for it rather than just saying “aww, that’s nice.”
I find this very funny and sad at the same time.
I have hardly any degree in music, but I perform as a guitarist and singer for local contests.
sucks for juliard!
I remember a rehearsal at Stanford (I don’t remember which show, but it was a G&S show back in the mid-to-late ’80s, I think) where I was talking to the (musical) director during a break. He was saying that when he graduated (I think from Stanford, in fact, but I don’t really know) with his music degree he went looking around and got that feeling of being in a vast desert wasteland job-wise (my words, not his). He asked around and someone told him (again, paraphrased) “Just tell them you’re a programmer and they’ll hire you.” And this worked for many people – most of the people I played with in the pit at Stanford (back when I was still playing) were from HP (which was a great company to work for back then, sigh). Some of them had PHDs in nuclear physics, and like that, and I still went for a Computer Science degree instead of music, but it’s nice to fantasize. Oh, and I don’t mean to give the impression that I went to Stanford (I didn’t), although I played there for shows while in school and after.
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These days, they will only hire people who have a degree in Software Engineering or similar even if they can’t code their way out of a paper bag.
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I’m not saying that everyone with a software engineering degree is
incompetent, but I keep hearing “We need to get more people trained in this stuff!”
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Yah, because any chimpanzee can write code with the right training – just like any chimpanzee can be a manager with the right training.
But chimpanzees cannot become conductors with the right training…
(because primates have no sense of rhythm)
I’m graduating next month with a degree in Music Performance. (voice)
I took out federal and private student loans to pay for the degree in addition to working.
What have I done?
I’m sorry.
I’ve got my GCSE in music (english system highschool degree).. It was great fun, super easy for me since I have super aural-processing and memory skills (I can remember almost everything I hear). I know that a musician’s life is hard, especially if you’re a good one and you care about music (not saying that I’m good.. just a general statement).. But it’s an excellent way to pass time, plus, if everything goes wrong you can always busk.
I aspire to do my own version of Wagner (god-complex creation of music and art) but on a smaller scale, probably with a shoe-box, some puppets and Sibelius 5… That would make an awesome (if probably underrated) video. [:
I’ve always wanted to see a puppet version of Gotterdammerung.
The video is un-see-able.
Can anyone tell me if this is Ed Pais?
Friggin’ genius.
Yeah, my art degree is sitting in a box gathering dust much like my art career. So I now have 2 IT degrees and a crummy job where I’m the necessary evil. But I had the most fun playing in the band those many years ago.
Looking back, I’d rather have been broke playing music.
Aww Crap
I have a music degree as well and enjoyed a great career teaching in Iowa and was going just fine. I left the business to work with limousines, but I did it on purpose and still perform in a local big band for fun.
Maybe that holds water with a Music Performance degree. Otherwise you can do a lot.
I thought I wanted to teach, until my senior year when I actually student taught and found out the most of being a teacher has nothing to do with getting kids to learn, just B.S. paperwork.
I did two years of sales, quit that crappy job, the economy tanked, and been without a real job for months.
The moral of the story: following your passions is a dumb idea if you want to be able to pay your student loans. That is all.
but…it’s the only thing that makes me happy…
>_>’
Graph also applies to art majors
Waste of 4 years of your life and thousands of dollars. WIN?
This is the first graph that made me laugh out loud in a long time.
The voila gets no respect, and in many ways, it is very much justified. As most of them are failed violinists who couldn’t master the violin, and had to either downgrade or quit outright. Their music parts are mostly support for the violin’s.
What’s the difference between a viola and a coffin?
The coffin has the dead person on the inside.
What’s the difference between a viola and an onion?
No one cries when you cut up a viola.
Why do violists leave their instrument cases on the dashboards of their cars?
If someone mistakes them for mafia, they might finally get some respect.
hence why I’m going tomajor in business and minor in music
a-hole.
I am a music therapist, which requires a music degree. I am not dying in poverty, am not a telemarketer or door-to-door salesman, nor do I work in a non-descript office job. Visit http://www.musictherapy.org
What’s the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a crushed viola in the road?
-There are skid marks before the skunk.
What’s the difference between a chain saw and a viola?
-If you absolutely had to, you could use a chain saw in a string quartet.
What is the difference between a violist and a prostitute?
1. A prostitute knows more than two positions.
2. Prostitutes have a better sense of rhythm.
This is completely untrue. I know TONS of music majors who have been successful.
The red is definitely true for me at the moment =p
Ugh… excuse me while I wash the elitism off.
Anyone who really wants to can have a great career in music. Hard work trumps talent every time.
Violins are so much sexier than viola’s. Viola’s can only wish they could be as good as the violin’s, but never are.
I’m only good at two things: Drumming, gaming.
I’m hoping to get a bachelor of music. I’m going to start music school in July, and I’m going to be doing foundation music.
I suppose if you have an extensive knowledge on instruments, how they work and how to play them, and you have the papers to prove it, music retailers would be happy to employ you (then you can go to the NAMM shows!!!!).
Or perhaps one day I might become as famous as Virgil Donati or Dennis Chambers. Maybe.
DRUMMER JOKES!
Q. How do you know a drummer is outside your door?
A. The knocking speeds up!
Q. How many drummers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. None, they have a machine to do that now!
Oxymoron: Drum Music.
Myself after the suggestion to double major:
“Haha! Good thing I thought ahead. If this music thing doesn’t work, I have a backup plan!”
The irony?
My second degree is in philosophy.
I forgot this bit:
How do you get a guitarist to stop playing?
Put sheet music in front of them.
Also, my years of bassoon playing have left me well-equipped with double reed jokes.
What do you call a bassoonist that can play three notes?
Gifted.
How many bassoonists does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but they’ll insist on going through about five bulbs before they find one that suits the particular room and situation.
I make a decent living teaching privately and performing in a jazz quintet. I haven’t even finished my BA yet. Proof this graph is bull.