- So, because there'll be a certain percentage of singers
who will not be attached
to gainful employment in actual singing.
There'll be a lot of networking that begins even
in school where singers are helping out each other
in finding various kinds of jobs.
It's interesting being
in a large city where there are many institutions
because these teaching jobs are often passed on
from one generation to another of students
from the same voice studio or from the same school.
That's one way that happens.
So networking becomes a big part.
And even though they're all competing
to get out and sing
often they're not competing directly against each other.
And certainly the stakes
at the point of being an unmanaged singer
the stakes are not so high that a job that pays
a thousand dollars is going to be the end of their career
if they don't get it.
But there is, there's quite a bit
of networking that goes on
and one musician helping another find enough employment
to sustain what they're trying to do for a period of time.
Obviously it helps to be
in a large city where the opportunities are numerous.
So if people are training
in areas that are not metropolitan
I usually encourage them to get
into the metropolitan area so that they can be close
to the better instruction and the better opportunities,
if they're going to spend several years furthering
their training, beyond graduate school.