1. Prof. Kevin Block-Schwenk Liberal Arts (Economics & Math)
Music Business Alumni Working Outside of Music: Paths, Thoughts, and Advice
Prof. Kevin Block-Schwenk
Liberal Arts (Economics & Math)

2. The Project: Interviewing relatively-recent Berklee alumni with good non-music careers.
Criteria to qualify:
Under 25% of their job is music-related.
Graduated from Berklee less than 11 years ago.
Berklee was their first Bachelors Degree.
On track to earn at least $45,000 this year.
At their job for at least 6 months.
Like their field and expect to continue working in it for years.

3. The Project: Interviewing relatively-recent Berklee alumni with good non-music careers.
Criteria to qualify:
Under 25% of their job is music-related.
Graduated from Berklee less than 11 years ago.
Berklee was their first Bachelors Degree.
On track to earn at least $45,000 this year.
At their job for at least 6 months.
Like their field and expect to continue working in it for years.
Three topics:
Describing their current job.
Recounting their path from Berklee to what they do now.
Sharing thoughts and advice.

4. The Project: Interviewing relatively-recent Berklee alumni with good non-music careers.
Criteria to qualify:
Under 25% of their job is music-related.
Graduated from Berklee less than 11 years ago.
Berklee was their first Bachelors Degree.
On track to earn at least $45,000 this year.
At their job for at least 6 months.
Like their field and expect to continue working in it for years.
Three topics:
Describing their current job.
Recounting their path from Berklee to what they do now.
Sharing thoughts and advice.
52 interviews done with MB alumni as of the end of August, Another 45 done with non-MB alumni.

5. The Project: Interviewing relatively-recent Berklee alumni with good non-music careers.
Criteria to qualify:
Under 25% of their job is music-related.
Graduated from Berklee less than 11 years ago.
Berklee was their first Bachelors Degree.
On track to earn at least $45,000 this year.
At their job for at least 6 months.
Like their field and expect to continue working in it for years.
Three topics:
Describing their current job.
Recounting their path from Berklee to what they do now.
Sharing thoughts and advice.
52 interviews done with MB alumni as of the end of August, Another 45 done with non-MB alumni.
All interviews can be seen at OtherBerkleeAlumni.com. New interviews posted weekly.

6. Year of Graduation

7. Year of Graduation

8. Principal Instrument / Gender

9. What They’re Doing Now

10. What They’re Doing Now MB
Non-MB

11. Additional Degrees

12. Fewer MB grads got another degree
Fewer MB grads got another degree. But the difference is not quite statistically significant (p = 0.059).

13. Years Until Their Non-Music Career Started

14. …Excluding Time as a Full-Time Student

15. Years Working in Music

16. Years Working in Music – Everyone

17. Music Business majors who worked in music appear more likely to have prospered, but differences are not statistically significant. (p = around 0.2)

18. When They Left Music as a Career, They…

19. Did Their Music Job Lead to Their New Career?

20. MB grads were less likely to work in music (p=
MB grads were less likely to work in music (p= .0014), but the percentage of music jobs that proved relevant to their non-music career was about identical.
MB:
Non-MB:

21. How They Got Their First Non-Music-Career Job

22. Their First Non-Music-Career Job

23. Full Details at OtherBerkleeAlumni.com

24. What Berklee Did Well #1 (20; 38%)
Adam Kirschner, 2013 Sr. Account Manager (Sales)
Shawn Young-Eagle, 2013
Financial Management Sales

25. What Berklee Did Well #1 (20; 38%)
Better Thinking
& Learning
Adam Kirschner, 2013 Sr. Account Manager (Sales)
Shawn Young-Eagle, 2013
Financial Management Sales

26. What Berklee Did Well #2 (15; 29%)
Katie Amaral, 2009
System Administrator
Masters in Comp. Sci.
Ryan Driscoll, 2011
Patent Paralegal

27. What Berklee Did Well #2 (15; 29%)
Focus and Drive
(Incl. Time Management Skills)
Katie Amaral, 2009
System Administrator
Masters in Comp. Sci.
Ryan Driscoll, 2011
Patent Paralegal

28. What Berklee Did Well #3 (13; 25%)
Cambria Russell-Herrera, 2015
Art (Sculpture) Studio Manager

29. What Berklee Did Well #3 (13; 25%)
Directly-Applicable
Classes
Cambria Russell-Herrera, 2015
Art (Sculpture) Studio Manager

30. What Berklee Did Well #4 (10, 19%)
Leah Hinton. 2013
Staffing Coordinator

31. What Berklee Did Well #4 (10, 19%)
Business Skills
Leah Hinton, 2013
Staffing Coordinator

32. What Berklee Did Well #5 (7; 13%)
Scott Brown, 2006
Corporate Lawyer
J.D.

33. What Berklee Did Well #5 (7; 13%)
Diversity and
Collaboration
Scott Brown, 2006
Corporate Lawyer
J.D.

34. What Berklee Did Well #6 (6, 12%)
Gabriella Mastrangelo (Howard)
MB, 2012
Medical Administrator (& future nurse)

35. What Berklee Did Well #6 (6, 12%)
Professionalism
Gabriella Mastrangelo (Howard)
MB, 2012
Medical Administrator (& future nurse)

36. What Berklee did well

37. Advice for Current Students #1 (21, 40%)
Charlotte Moore, 2005
VFX Bidding Manager
MBA
Michael Wright, 2008
Software Sales

38. Advice for Current Students #1 (21, 40%)
Seize Opportunities
& Try Things
Charlotte Moore, 2005
VFX Bidding Manager
MBA
Michael Wright, 2008
Software Sales

39. Advice for Current Students #2 (18, 35%)
Phil Lee, 2007
Computer Support Engineer
Josh Nachbar, 2014
Technology Consultant

40. Advice for Current Students #2 (18, 35%)
It’s OK to Work
Outside Music
Phil Lee, 2007
Computer Support Engineer
Josh Nachbar, 2014
Technology Consultant

41. Advice for Current Students #3 (17, 33%)
Doug Guttenberg, 2009
Advertising Production Manager
Masters of Science in Business “MBA Lite”
John Lahr, 2016
Dir. of Strategic Partnerships (Sales)

42. Advice for Current Students #3 (17, 33%)
Network &
Research Careers
Doug Guttenberg, 2009
Advertising Production Manager
Masters of Science in Business “MBA Lite”
John Lahr, 2016
Dir. of Strategic Partnerships (Sales)

43. Advice for Current Students #4 (15, 29%)
Troy Church, 2013
Web Developer

44. Advice for Current Students #4 (15, 29%)
Figure Out What
You Really Want
Troy Church, 2013
Web Developer

45. Advice for Current Students #5 (13, 25%)
Claudia Caliano, 2009
Corporate Trainer Consultant

46. Advice for Current Students #5 (13, 25%)
Be Realistic
(And the first years can be tough.)
Claudia Caliano, 2009
Corporate Trainer Consultant

47. Advice for Current Students #6 (12, 23%)
Morgan Mallory, 2012
Office Equipment Sales

48. Advice for Current Students #6 (12, 23%)
Work Hard
Morgan Mallory, 2012
Office Equipment Sales

49. Advice for Current Students #7 (10, 19%)
Jesse Reese, 2008 Software Engineer

50. Advice for Current Students #7 (10, 19%)
Move Forward
Jesse Reese, 2008 Software Engineer

51. Advice for Current Students #8 (8, 15%)
Sarah Demarco, 2009
Fashion Entrepreneur

52. Advice for Current Students #8 (8, 15%)
Apply your
Music Skills
Sarah Demarco, 2009
Fashion Entrepreneur

53. Advice for Current Students #9 (7, 13%)
Jared Winegrad, 2013
Venture Capital Fund Principal

54. Advice for Current Students #9 (7, 13%)
Be Can-Do
Jared Winegrad, 2013
Venture Capital Fund Principal

55. Advice for Current Students
Also:
Get good job search skills. (5)
Get help & advice. (4)
Use free online resources. (4),
Be fiscally responsible. (3),
Look at uncommon music careers. (3)

56. Current Relationship with Music

57. Last Words Prayre Finley, 2013 Sub. Teacher, Bakery Mgr, Tutor
Ryan Heenan, 2007
Marketing Video Entrepreneur
Mark Schafer, 2009
Software Administrator

58. Don’t forget to check out OtherBerkleeAlumni.com
Thank you!
Don’t forget to check out OtherBerkleeAlumni.com
Any questions?

59. No, really.
We’re done here.

60. Seriously, that’s all I got.
Over and out.