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CHAPTER 1 The Approach You Need {| Why a Career in Music Requires a Leap of Faith Wade Sutton, Rocket to the Stars If you want to make music your full-time career, you will eventually have to take a deep breath and either jump from the cliff or wait for somebody to give you a push. I’m speaking from personal experience. I created Rocket to the Stars and built it up while maintaining a full-time job in radio news. Small market radio does not pay very well but I loved what I did. I was only 20-years-old when I was promoted to news director at the first radio station I worked for. I have covered high profile homicide trials and sat inches away from convicted child killers. On the day of the September 11 th attacks, my co-worker and I were the first two people in the United States to interview by phone nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Gallagher minutes after he was forced to evacuate the Empire State Building. I have been on the sidelines and in the locker rooms during NFL games. I have been back stage at concerts. I covered nearly 13
14 The <strong>$150</strong>,000 Music Degree forty elections. When a child in our community shot and killed his father’s pregnant girlfriend, I found myself covering the story for a number of radio stations, some as far away as Ireland. Then, after 18 years of doing news in my hometown, I was called into a manager’s office and was told my position was being eliminated due to budget problems. It was 10:40 on a Friday morning. There had been no indication to me that my job was in danger. Sitting there blindsided by the news, the only thing going through my mind was figuring out how I was going to support my seven-year-old daughter. I had been living a normal life with a normal job and a normal daily routine while collecting a normal pay check. My “normal” had been destroyed as if somebody had tossed a hand grenade at it. I walked into my office and packed my personal belongings, including a Mr. Potato Head my daughter made nearly four years before. I said farewell to people who had been like family for almost half my life. I was an emotional wreck. But it was during the drive home that I stopped being upset. After spending four years growing and developing Rocket to the Stars, I realized NOW was the time to make this my career. I saw that this was my opportunity to stop making money for other people and to start making it for myself. I understood that my knowledge and creativity could now be used to dictate how far I went instead of being held back by people destined to forever tread the waters of middle management. Do I have the safety net of a “normal job paycheck”? Of course not. And that is some scary shit when you are a single parent not receiving any financial assistance from an ex-spouse. In losing my job, I was pushed from the aforementioned cliff. I was forced to face a lot of fears. And so will you if you really want to have a successful music career. You will work harder than you ever thought possible... I start working as soon as my daughter gets on the school bus at 7:30 am. I do not stop until she comes home and, some days, deadlines force me to have to do some work when she is home. It isn’t out of the ordinary that I find myself continuing to work after she goes to bed.
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