Anonymous #1 10w

music education but it's very saturated so I'm pursuing physical education. Now I'm hearing rumors that schools might get rid of the subject completely. I do not have enough tuition money to change majors 💀

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Anonymous #3 10w

Honestly physical education is probably more useful that music Ed. I can’t think of much you can do around music Ed besides teach, but for physical education, health is one biggest industries to be in, if you can find a niche you should be able to do pretty well

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Anonymous #1 10w

Classical Music is a very lucrative and posh career

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Anonymous #1 10w

PE in my area is so bad, that it's being defunded, and the current teachers aren't helping either. Majority of the ones I've obversed aren't actually teaching but standing and roll out basketballs. So the administration sees that subject as a waste in the schedule.

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Anonymous #2 10w

Making a significant living in any type of music is extrememly competitive. For classical, some instruments are more common than others so you have a better chance but you have to be a world class musician. For music education specifically, there’s definitely a market for it but it’ll be hard to compete with things like simply piano, simply guitar, or the singing one with them

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Anonymous #1 10w

That's why I didn't pick music Ed, because I genuinely suck at any instrument I touch, but I love composing. You can't teach a band if you aren't proficient in the subject itself. (I don't practice lol) Writing scores for people is whole another story because people expect a John Williams or will just use AI.

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Anonymous #1 10w

Pretty much all good fields are extremely competitive honestly.

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Anonymous #3 10w

There’s a bunch of modern composers that make stuff for wind band that I would imagine do pretty well, someone like Frank Ticheli. They sell their compositions to companies and websites to sell to schools and universities

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Anonymous #2 10w

*coughs in Microsoft just laid off 9,000 employees in favor of AI*

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Anonymous #5 10w

Microsoft has laid off thousands of people in the past before. if AI replaces you that means your job is replaceable and you need to learn new stuff. This is how the world has always been. Stop being a Luddite.

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Anonymous #2 10w

It’s like the printing press. When this technology was being developed, it took jobs from scribes but replaced them with jobs for printing press operators and builders—it also dropped the price of books and increased access to education in the process. AI I don’t think will be very different.

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Anonymous #1 10w

If you’re a scribe who refuses to use a printing press and demands that you write books by hand, then… you’re going to lose your job. If you decide to learn how to use a printing press, you’ll be able to write books x100 more quickly…

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Anonymous #2 10w

Yes I was supporting what you were saying lol

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Anonymous #2 10w

You clearly do not understand AI. We’re to the point that AI-stolen jobs aren’t coming back. Who even has time to “learn new stuff” anyways? We’re all out here just fighting to afford to live

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Anonymous #5 10w

That’s…. what we just said. AI “stolen” jobs aren’t coming back. Nor should they. If you can’t provide value to a higher degree than the agentic value that the Artificial intelligence is moving toward then you can find something else. You always have time to learn new stuff, and if you’re in the extremely restrictive situation that you don’t, I am 99% sure it is a product of your own actions. Education is more accessible than ever if you have the will to do so.

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Anonymous #2 10w

“Hurr durr, there’s no way technology could take over my job” Try saying that to a blacksmith. The world moves forward, and a college degree isn’t a foundation for you to build on, it’s an injection to the jet stream, and you better hope that you stay onboard, or you gotta find you entry point again.

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Anonymous #6 10w

lol bro, this is what we are saying. Boo hoo technology made your job obselete. It creates others in the process. Learn and adapt. It’s part of being at the current point in history. Technology gets better and better and a faster and faster rate.

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Anonymous #1 10w

I think there’s also a point to acknowledge that I paid 200k for an education and it takes time to pay that off, so retraining in that regard isn’t something I can just do every 10 years without some serious thought?

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Anonymous #1 10w

I'm all for efficiency and having more ways to make things easier, but there's a certain degree where you should take the harder route to get the proper pedagogy and literacy. If you shorthand everything, especially being educated by AI or an AI doing a job, the foundations may not be there. Something may be off.

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Anonymous #3 10w

I agree to an extent, but anything worth doing is worth doing poorly—ie if it’s easier to convince yourself to do a couple of pushups at home vs getting up and doing a full workout at a gym, do the former. In most instances, you gain more from doing a little bit of something than doing none of it. This applies to education too. Sometimes this can be used as a means to an end. Go to the gym to half ass it, but once you’re there give it your all… might as well, you’re already there

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Anonymous #1 10w

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly, and anything worth doing poorly is worth doing properly, so like just do the fucking thing already.

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