Sir Terrence,

Thank you very much for the reply that was just what i needed to hear, the ups and downs of working as an audio engineer. You seem to know a great deal about the profession so if you do not mind i would like to pick your brain a little more.

To give you some background on me personally, i have been working with some recording and mixing equipment at my church; my knowledge is very slim and i lack many of the proper technical terms to describe what i do. However i will tell you to best of my abilities what i do, do. I help set-up microphones, amps, and musical instruments so they all meet up at our main mixer board, then i assist with mixing the instruments and vocalists into sync. During sermons and worship i will run recordings and set-up tracks for CD's and Cassettes, then duplicate them after. This may seem like a small and nearly insignificant amount of work compared to what you might be used to, or have seen. However this is something i take pride in doing and I enjoy it very much.

Like i said before I enjoy music to a great extent and would like to see about work with audio in any way be it, live shows, recording studios, or shoot even working in a film studio would be amazing. like you said tho, this is a broad field and i am not quite sure where to go from here. i will be looking into some Jr. College classes next semester and continue participating at my church; but is there any way that i can get, "ahead of the game" if you will? How did you start off? Where did you go to study this profession? If you do not mind answering some of these questions that would be great.

I am sorry if i came across at first with a lack of respect, or interest toward the profession because i did not intend for that at all. I really do enjoy music and the amount of effort put into creating it. Life has taught me well enough by now that nothing is easy, nor will anything be handed to me on a silver platter. I am willing to work, and work hard to do what i want to do.

Many thanks,
-Dan