what job should I take?

[Trotskilicious]

well it's not like you can't go somewhere else once you get the experience and references under your belt

being a sound engineer for booking agencies i imagine is pretty financially rewarding

[Luke de Spa]

Are you a sound engineer? Do you have any recordings?

[Luke de Spa]

sorry i just had to get that off my chest

[Trotskilicious]

Ice cream pig out in M1-aud is why i don't play plug in baby the wrong way, like you

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

well it's not like you can't go somewhere else once you get the experience and references under your belt

being a sound engineer for booking agencies i imagine is pretty financially rewarding

yeah but don't forget that israel is a small place. 6 million people, thats it.
there's a fuckload more people looking for work than actually working, successful people. especially in a field like this.

i guess there isn't a real answer for this, it's either going for it and gambling a little or going for the safe layup

[teh b0lly!!1]

im surprised the jokes took this long
i mean, unemployed sound engineer

[teh b0lly!!1]

del

[teh b0lly!!1]

i just thought i'd let you guys know i went for the sound job. first day was coll.
it's nice to feel meaningful again after being unable to break the cycle for so long.
thanks for the advice

[Cool As Ice Cream]

yay

[reprise85]

cool, enjoy!

[dean_r_koontz]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

Are you a sound engineer? Do you have any recordings?

i'm a sound engineer kinda.

[Cool As Ice Cream]

you work on radio towers, right?

[dean_r_koontz]

i work with all kinds of amplification.

[brendo_91]

i'm a sound guy who has been getting paid a regular wage for the last four years, doing sound/vision/lighting. look into corporate/hotel AV if you dont mind selling your soul a bit and working stupid hours. overtime is sweet though.

bought a car this year which is fully paid off, basically just through my overtime pay.

[teh b0lly!!1]

this job is 3 months long. the name's fairly prestigious, and i hope to do my job well so that they'll keep me there as a studios employee rather than some freelance. lots of productions going on here so i'll just hope for the best.

on like my first two days i already stayed overtime twice
i fucking hate brown nosing but it seems like i have to go hard at it this time

[teh b0lly!!1]

what
i did take the sound job.
or did you mean you wish i had taken the intel job

[SuckSuckStyle]

yay. im excited for you

[Nimrod's Son]

I did 12 hour shifts 3 days on, 4 off, 4 days on, 3 off for a while. I loved it. Yeah you're beat at the end of the 4th day, but you know you've got a long weekend every week...

[teh b0lly!!1]

were they alternating shifts tho?
what'd you work at?

[Duke1497]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

how retarded am i to come to this place seeking career advice.

here goes.
i've played guitar since i was 16, and for many years kind of thought someday i'll get serious and form a band and shit. but, as life went on i saw that regardless of how good i am (and i wasn't bad at all), chances for success, surely one that would make me a living, were extremely scarce... so i went to study what i thought was the next best thing, which is sound engineering (hold on to the unemployment jokes please). studied that for two years, got an internship in the best studio around. got virtually abused there, and for no good reason. more than anything else, i was a lackey, and although they liked me and wanted me to stay and even suggested that i'd record a low-profile record by myself, i kind of saw where it was going, which was nowhere, and i still wasn't getting paid a penny for 10-12 hour days (this is about 3.5 months time) so i just said fuck it and moved on. worked a couple sound-guy jobs and lately, been unemployed for like 2-3 months. the unemployed sound guy, so embarrassing
anyway throughout all this time i was (and am) constantly questioning if sound engineering is even the right thing for me to do with my life... i mean, you have to chase a gig after gig after gig. some guys can handle that but i can't, really. im piss fucking poor, i can't afford this, i need some security. besides, it's one thing to make your own songs sound awesome, and a whole other thing to do various tiring chores that are mostly grey and unrewarding.

anyway my frantic searching for a job blew up in my face time after time and now all at once i've got two places willing to hire me and they totally collide with each other.

i take the red pill, i stay in the sound business, i go to work in the Big Brother broadcast control room, pay is good, it's an 8 minute drive to there from my house, but the show ends in 3 months and essentially i have to rely on my bosses being so pleased with me, that they'll give me another job in one of their studios.

i take the blue pill, i go work for Intel, 4 days a week with 12 hour shifts (working in the clean room as an operator) and having four days off. pays better. about a half hour drive away. more 'secure' and stable. but also it feels like selling my soul to a bunch of procedure-following nutsacks.

im fairly sure i won't be working in the sound field in 10 years anyway, but i do feel like i've only been out there a year, haven't really given it a real shot, and this is the first REAL job i'm being offered, and that could promote me (then again, it could also get me nowhere. life's playful like that).

with Intel i'll be able to get promoted if i do my job well and stay long enough, I think. it's much more secure, it pays great and overall conditions are excellent. the job itself, being an operator in the fancy clean room, is not so fancy though... but i suppose it's manageable, like any other job.

i know this is serious tldr material right there but i am so deep in this i can't really see things straight. maybe one of you guys has a better perspective.

I say go with the intel job

you aren't risking unemployment (afaik) and pay is good

its also more stable and you could get promoted

theres more pros than cons

[neopryn]

he already took the sound job dumbass

[reprise85]

yeah us people being all logical about going with intel got bitch slapped

that's cool though, i'm glad someone is following their dreams

[neopryn]

fuck intel. inSMELL.

[Duke1497]

Originally Posted by neopryn

he already took the sound job dumbass

i typed it prior to seeing that

[Future Boy]

you couldve kept him from making a mistake Duke, now he's fucked

[teh b0lly!!1]

actually i kind of steered things the right way so the door might not be closed if i ever try to go back. i told them my uncle invited me to live with him in italy for around 4-6 months and since i haven't seen him in years it means a lot to me and i can't pass on that opportunity.

they took it fairly well and if things blow up with the sound job i can try my luck again.

[aldango]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

actually i kind of steered things the right way so the door might not be closed if i ever try to go back. i told them my uncle invited me to live with him in italy for around 4-6 months and since i haven't seen him in years it means a lot to me and i can't pass on that opportunity.

they took it fairly well and if things blow up with the sound job i can try my luck again.

gahaahahaha so you lied? great move

[reprise85]

nothing wrong with lying in that situation... imo

[Duke1497]

Originally Posted by Future Boy

you couldve kept him from making a mistake Duke, now he's fucked

dammit

lol

i need to read these goddamn posts quicker

[aldango]

Originally Posted by reprise85

nothing wrong with lying in that situation... imo

there's no reason to lie, though. people take different jobs all the time, even after agreeing.

it's really not that big a deal; it happens. lying is a bigger deal IMO