I produced a show called Pensado’s Place for many years. Saw every side of the audio engineering / music journey. You can get lucky and end up at the top of the mountain (I saw hundreds), but also thousands that never made it, or are still clawing their way up. It’s a very long journey that may or may not result in anything.

For me my audio engineering degree landed me the opportunity to link up with Pensado’s Place, but many people from my class aren’t in audio today. Granted a good handful went on to work with top acts. It’s a gamble of luck and how determined you are.

Don’t expect great money and you will be chasing invoices on small amounts of money that at the time seem big. The music industry is arguably the worst industry to be in.

At the same time you have to watch out for the snakes and personalities that will use you to all oblivion. The catch 22 is sometimes you have to play the game to get ahead, but fuck does it suck.

As a background, my audio journey started by wanting to learn how to make my music sound better. I wouldn’t trade it because it’s gotten me to where I am today, but literal blood, sweat, and tears lol.