I went to college for music. I wanted to be the next John Williams / James Horner. Believing this was America in the 21st Century there was no reason not to pursue my God given talents and dreams. What I learned in college completely contradicted those beliefs.
I came out of graduation having learned that music college was not there to teach me how to skillfully evoke every state on the emotional spectrum. They were there to discourage students and forbid everything that spoke of humanity and beauty in accordance with the national accrediting board’s secret anti-human agenda. They were there to murder my talents and dreams. I couldn’t touch a piano for a whole year after earning my degree because of what the program did to me. Every accredited college has the same program.
Furthermore, the entertainment field is oversaturated with talent and blocked by satanic gatekeepers who have the ability to stall one’s career unless you profess loyalty like Faust did with the devil. After graduating I was faced with nothing but locked doors from every company I asked to hire me.
From all of this I learned if I was going to do anything musical I would have to build it myself. There’s nothing I needed to learn about the practical side of music that I couldn’t have learned from the internet years sooner without the psychological abuse of college. Asking some authority figure in the arts to teach you, give you a license and hire you is now an outdated, century old way of thinking and a deadly soul trap these days. If you’re in college and you begin experiencing resistance from your professors regarding skills you want to develop, this is a sign to get out. Get out!
WOW! You and I have a very similar story! I began at CU Boulder as a music composition major - with the same vision as you. I LOVED to compose and arrange. After two years of being told (along with ALL of the other music students) that our only realistic career in music would be teaching, I quickly moved to film/TV. Thankfully, I quit - as I eventually saw every single one of my very talented musician classmates take the bait and get education degrees. My brother, on the other hand, never went to college and focused on creating Christian music. He’s now the producer of his own kids’ sibling band, that’s world famous and triple platinum. I have no regrets, because I never was that talented anyway. Just glad to see their huge success outside and apart from the restrictive and expensive undergrad system.
“I wanted to be the next John Williams...”
My son loves John Williams... He took Violin for a year when he was like 10... His Grandma got him into it. He played the Star Wars theme for his recital. Fiddler on the roof was one of his favorite movies and he figured out how to to play the intro just by listening to it. He knows how to read music a little still.
I’m sorry for your horrific experience... thank you for sharing it though. I will share this thread with him.... who knows, maybe he will join FR and become a 3rd generation Freeper.