OT: Great jobs if you can get them; what are they?

badnicki · Post by **badnicki** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:54 am

Answering telephones all day is very, VERY quickly losing its charm so I'm looking for something new where I can hopefully learn a lot about recording/producing/field recording.engineering etc etc

I know working in a studio would be great - but almost near impossible a gig to get as far as I've heard. Just wondering if anyone has had some other not-so-obvious jobs that really helped them pick up some knowledge.

Anything from post-production audio for film to music production, I'm interested in all of it.
Thanks.

pulsoc · Post by **pulsoc** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:20 pm

Fluffer

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:30 pm

Work is the mortal enemy of the soul!

The French, of course, understand it - if you look at the etymology of their commonest word for work, travail...

travail (n.)
"labor, toil," c.1250, from O.Fr. travail "suffering or painful effort, trouble" (12c.), from travailler "to toil, labor," originally "to trouble, torture," from V.L. *tripaliare "to torture," from *tripalium (in L.L. trepalium) "instrument of torture," probably from L. tripalis "having three stakes" (from tria, tres "three" + palus "stake"), which sounds ominous, but the exact notion is obscure. The verb is recorded from c.1300.
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=travail)

Say NO! to work!

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:07 pm

Recording studios still exist? That's crazy shit. But assuming they do and you can find one, I don't think it's getting a job there that's the issue. It's actually getting paid to do something. Studios are all about slave labor with the difference that you willingly do it for nothing or very little because you are working in a fucking studio.

Unless you are exceptionally talented and driven then you probably aren't going to be able to pay the bills doing something with music. Maybe get a part time job at a music store. At least you can get a discount on gear.

glu · Post by **glu** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:32 pm

today is my last day at work > then it's back to the university full time to finish that 8yr degree! The best job is NO job!!!!

Daurix · Post by **Daurix** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 5:41 pm

Warp Records is hiring, check their news page..

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:44 pm

undoubtely the one i have, dj-ing, performing, making music, and the best part
co-creating and running this baby:

http://www.soniclab.sk

http://www.myspace.com/soniclabbratislava

the myspace link contains some pics

, the other site is still in further developement, watch out for the future!

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:49 pm

Read these:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control ... otPage.jsp

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control ... y07.jsp&O=

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/news ... Micrphones

Buy this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/4 ... phone.html

Look here:
http://montreal.craigslist.org/tfr/

Also, go to local music clubs and theaters and sniff around for live sound people. Buddy up with them and volunteer your time as their assistant for a while. Only persistant people become audio people.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:55 pm

Recording studios may be dead, but live sound and field work are here to stay.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:58 pm

SDMB wrote:

Only persistant people become audio people.

i absolutely second that!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:03 pm

volunteering is a great idea.

no job is perfect, there's just jobs that don't piss you off as much as others. nothing beats education and hard work.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:11 pm

some days, you just find gold on google images...

here's what I found after searching for "best jobs"

badnicki · Post by **badnicki** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:23 pm

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Recording studios may be dead, but live sound and field work are here to stay.

Yippee!! I don't think I'm much of a studio person anyway...but any excuse to buy a nice new microphone is great by me. I didn't think there was much in the way of field recording gigs....I guess I'm wrong?

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:30 pm

it may not seem like the ideal type of studio, but maybe consider looking into on-hold / telephone advertising type stuff - or mobile phone voice prompts

I worked for several years in a studio like that and you learn alot and the mobile phone industry was growing massively

sometimes it can be tedious, but it can be sociable sitting on an ISDN codec recording the VO artists who are usually a great laugh

I actually really enjoyed that job - and it did actually lead to getting paid to write music and sound design a few times

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:41 am

If you can get the capitol you could open a porn shop with video booths <-- that's a cash business

if you have some web design skills you could link up with pornaccess.com and start a site under their name - basically people pay $20 to download unlimited porn - you get like 10% of each sale

I'm considering this - or you could start a pay per minute porn site and get in with a collective that already has a large database of movies

the thing is there are some things people spend money on

such as:

gas
cigarettes
boozes
and
porn

short of opening a gas station you might as well sell x-rated material

just a thought - you can make some serious money off porn addicts who do way to much meth

word and peace

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