When you think about music careers, or people working in the music industry, what are the first jobs that come to mind? Probably a singer or instrumentalist, probably someone famous. Performing Musician is a highly visible and obvious music career option. Yet the performing musician’s career and success depends on many other music and music-related
careers. And there are many other music and music-related careers. What might some of those be? Some may be more obvious, some less so.

If you feel strongly about music, if it is very important to your life or the world as you see it, if you love listening to or performing music, you may well be a candidate for a music or music-related career. This lesson will provide you a chance to discover and explore some of these career options and the pathways for “getting there.” Even if you don’t see yourself as such a candidate, this lesson will help you learn more about music in our world, and how to research career options and pathways in other fields more pertinent to you and your unique interests.

Info from http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/itd/cti/middle_school/m_pc/lesson_plans/lp_powerpoint/lp_p_a_careers_pathw/bad1_unit_edit.pdf