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My whole life all I've ever cared about was music and audio, so when it became I apparent probably wasn't going to make it as a musician, I paid a bunch of money to go to a specialized (for-profit) school for audio, studio engineering, sound for video, live sound, stuff like that. But when I got out, I was never able to find any work and I immediately had to go back to whatever low wage labor I could get. I know 5 other people who went through the same program and all got careers in the field, but I am autistic and have mental illness to an extent that interacting with other people doesn't typically go well for me, so those years of my life and the five figures spent (A HUGE sum for a low income person like me) were wasted.So after 15 years of low wage work I went back to school, I've been in community college for 4 years and am now finally a sophomore, but I still don't have a major, I have no clue what to go to school for. I still don't care about anything but music and audio. Every time the school or the state dept. of employment rehab does a placement thing they all say I should be working in audio/video, and its like "duh, I know." I entertained the idea of going to school for audio again, but this time at a community college level instead of a for-profit school, but one of my former classmates told me I shouldn't because I am already qualified, but also that I don't have the personality required to get that kind of work. You apparently have to be really good with people and networking and that isn't me, my anxiety has always been WAY too severe and I have never been able to obtain meaningful treatment for it?So should I go to school for something I am already educated in, as a way to try to educate myself around my mental illness and the discrimination I may face? Or should I pick something else? And if the latter, how does one pick something they aren't interested in to go to school for and then stay motivated to keep with it?I'm 45/M in coastal SoCal and haven't had a FT job in almost 15 years. I really want to work FT again, that is my primary goal among anything else but you can't do that where I live without a degree or accepting poverty wages to get up at 5am which my body doesn't let me do. The school's counselors are utterly useless and I have no other support system, not able to get the mental/physical healthcare I need. Thanks for ANY info.
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