If the needle drop failed, Anthony would write hitpieces for Fader

Thinking about your personal dreams in a realistic and adult way is hard itself. The human ego always want things to happen fast and in a monumental way...

You cant fall back if you are falling forward - jaden smith

Real ones take career advice to the heart, plan for the future, create a backup plan, then dip.

Thatisthefallbackplan

I've gotten a lot of letters like this over the years *sup thiccboi*

IsThatThePlan?

i really like these videos. i feel like youre a legitimately insightful and intelligent dude especially compared to most of youtube.

This is such a real topic that no artist/creative/entrepreneur/millennial chasing their dreams want to hear, but should. Respect to you my main Melon, we all look up to you as a father figure.

It really sucks how autonomous artists are expected to be. Making art is a grind, a hustle just to get noticed. Really sad how governments never offer any safety net or organisation to help springboard artists' work. So much luck is involved. When I've worked on independent film sets, the pay is trash and the work can be brutally hard and demanding. Yet I get paid more for less hours to stand still in a stadium and point out where the bathroom or atm is. Really bizarre how little art is taken seriously by so many people when it makes the world a lot less grey and a lot less grim.

I went to art school and Have a solid career and am on track with paying off my debt. Here's some advice: Get a degree in graphic design but take as many traditional drawing / painting /sculpture courses as you possibly can. It's what I did. you'll find yourself with a huge workload but for me it really paid off (Plus drawing is more fun than work). Effectively you have the skills of a drawing or painting major, but you have a degree that is actually useful. and a graphic design job is a good first step to becoming a professional artist.

if u can't thicc, fall back _thatistheplan_

Hey Anthony, Although I'm not planning on going into the music industry, I feel like the advice you're giving here could be applied to any field. It's always important to have options since things don't always turn out how we want or expect. Also, thank you for the message of support and encouragement at the end.

8:59 “I’m very good with numbers” *gives Kendrick Lamar a 7 *gives Lil Pump a 7

Fallbackthony Plantano

I dont even have a plan to begin with.

I think a really understated thing is also the willingness to work. improving your skills, making a name for yourself, reaching the "next level" etc. all require a long days of grinding and not doing particularly fun things. in creative fields a lot of people have the mentality that if it's not fun it's not worth it but fuck man...nothing worth having is easy. don't give into laziness or comfort.

Video starts at about 2:00

As a final year environmental science student this video hit close to home. Thanks Anthony, lots of love.

You should one day do a list of some of your all time favorite albums

This is pretty timely with this youtube announcement

If you're good with numbers, then why did you give MBDTF a 6

Thanks for being here for us, Anthony. You'll always have my support.

As a high school Junior this video really helped inspired me. Recently I decided to drop an engineering path as I started to lose interest. I’m now planning on going into a film and music career which is much riskier. I just feel like I’d rather follow my dreams and fail then live with regrets. I’m trying to do all I can to get ready for an arts future by starting projects, taking classes at school focused on music/video production, and learning from friends who share this interest with me. More videos like this would be awesome!

I think I got too focused on my backup plan, and at some point I realised I don't wanna do my backup plan and now I'm fucked cause I don't have a backup plan for my backup plan.

Fallback plan? I don't even have a plan!.

Thanks for the advice, Anthony. It's very helpful and inspiring.

Pink Floyd or The Beatles Classic Review please... You thought I was gone Melonman but you were wrong..

Thank you for the kind words melon

Thanks for dropping the knowledge melon

Good advice, but you didn't have to blow the microphone

Seriously, you're the absolute coolest, and this sounds over the top, but you've taught me so much about life and made me so motivated to go after what I want the smart way. thank you

Thank you thiccboi, I really needed this right now

Thank you! I was just sitting here in art school having a slow mental breakdown over what I'm going to do in the future, and I go into my subscriptions and you've just uploaded this. Well, guess I'll better go get a fallback plan now.

Thank you for this vid Anthony

I really needed to hear this!!!! Thank you so much, such fantastic advice 👌👌

This video is super helpful. Thanks Tony

Thanks needed this. Started school today for production and I needed this to keep me motivated

I know most of these comments are meme comments but from the bottom of my heart I want to say thank you Anthony. I am really struggling with finding a way to market myself and currently work at a job I cannot stand but I need to work there because I am completely on my own out here. Everyday I continue to look for a career that will provide me with far more happiness and stability as well as still trying to do my own thing. I am fully graduated and do not consider myself above still looking at internships and part time jobs for more creative industries. I just feel like I have zero connections to get my foot in the door anywhere these days and that really feels like a problem.

I've always wanted to make it somewhere with music, but I don't really have a whole lot of fans. I went to school for audio engineering in Chicago from 2016-2017. I'm glad to have learned some useful skills but I realized it wasn't for me. Before that I was a manager at a restaurant and thought that's what I was going to do for the rest of my life, but once I got promoted to the second manager position, I stopped enjoying the job. Now I am going to school for nursing and I think this is what I wanna do for a job. I continue to make music and chase that goal, but it took me a while to decide what I wanted to do with my life. My point is, you may not find what you wanna do right away, and you may not succeed in the beginning with your dream, but you'll find something eventually. And just because you have more than one goal doesn't mean you can't do it all

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I am a music lover, I always knew I wanted to do something in music. I'm an artist/producer for and considered going to audio engineering school.. realized that was going to be a tough/expensive/unstable path and decided to go to business IT school and do music on the side. Althoigh it's tough to balance both I feel I get the best of both worlds with having stability and following my passion. Your advice is very solid and it's something think a lot of young people don't consider.

I’m in college & my major is music and entertainment. Trying to become a audio engineer but I like to rap as well. I been at a crossroads lately..This video is appreciated.

this is wonderful thank you for doing this anthony

Good advice thiccboi, I think this can even be applied to other fields. Albeit less subjective, building a career as a research scientist can be really hard and competitive so I've always been happy about pursuing my degree as an english teacher, which I feel has and always will give me the means to survive.

thank you melon i needed this

I had a very pretentious professor in college who once lectured us against fallback plans because people who have them always fall back.

I appreciate your videos man

Thank you, Anthony

This is great advice and I would suggest people listen to it even if they are not planning on doing music as a career because a lot of what was said here can apply to anyone who has a specific career goal of any kind.

Great video! Please do more videos like that.

This helped a lot, thanks you wonderful melon

Needed this. Thanks Melon

Dope video Melon. Been producing for about 2 years now while going to school for engineering. Once I graduate in about two years, I'll try producing music full time and if it doesn't work out after about 4 years I'll still have my engineering degree. YOLO!

I'm currently at a university studying music production/audio engineering. My goal is to one day open up my own studio and produce bands while releasing my own music as well. If that doesn't work out my degree will prepare me for many other fields in sound such as running live sound at venues, doing sound for movies, creating sound effects for video games and working with acoustics.

MY MAN MELONY MELONIANO CRUSHIN THEM ADS LIKE ITS NOBODYS BIZZ SMH

This is really helpful, thx!!

Great video Fantano!!!!!!

So good, I had to rewatch it. Thanks, Melon - some of us are already working drudgy corporate jobs with no end or big break in sight...

fantano, you're a good boy. props.

Thiccthony Boitano.

Thanks, good advice!

Love you, keep it up melon

Best thing you can do is be serious about whatever it is you wanna do while you're very young. The older you get, the harder it is to believe you can do anything extraordinary. Life gets in the way.

Awesome video, this is valuable advice

yo, thanks for this video. i'm in a similar position where i really should decide this soon. this gave me a lot of insight. thankthony youtano.

Thank you for this vid. Fr

Good advice, Anthony. I'm in highschool right now and I really want a career in cinema, but I'm going to pursue it after I get a stable job (as an engineer, probably). I think having a fallback plan is important as well.

Really opened my eyes Thank you thicc boi

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Than you Anthony, this vid really helped me. It's advice i needed to hear because my situation is very similar to Alex's. Again, thank you. (i think it would be funny to mention that im write to you from Russia, yep we watch you even here)

Thank you.

hey anton ur anice videoman!!! :D

It sucks to hear that Alex sucks so much, but it's comforting to know that I'm not the only one... Good on ya for the advice, thiccbruv.

I never knew the xx was in so much trouble

Anthony I hope you read this comment . Recently pretty much the same problem in my my life , Music has been my passion but I went into a completely different direction ( Not a bad one , It actually gave me decent opportunities to make money , But I don't like it ) because I felt working music was simply too risky I wouldn't be able to make a living out of it . Now that I'm 21 there are instances that I'm under a lot of stress and anxiety because of my work and my future and part of my brain always says that i should've fallowed music . part of me says maybe I should go to a music school and change my whole career . So I'm in a stressful situation in which I am not sure what am I going to do in the future and what my career path is going to be . Your video is very helpful and helps me make up my mind a bit . Thanks !

"I wanted to be an accountant because I'm good with numbers." Gave DAMN. a 7.

I like the advice it has been on my mind alot also being 25 but not sucking at music

Have a solid job that pays your bills and maybe even allows you to save. Then build that side hustle on the side no matter what it is. If you love it like it Anthony said you'll find time or make time to do it because you love it. Just keep creating, learning, and pushing yourself!

Having a plan B is probably the best advice possible and is not only good in the music industry but any competitive area. Even in science everyone needs that fallback plan.

Great video

OH I LOVE YA FANTANY

Much luvv fantano

I quit my job ths week to persue my dream of being a proffesional illustrator after 5 years of steady designer work. It will be tough I am aware, but I saved quite a lot and I have a couple of small gigs now and then, a lot of savings and a plan B and C as well as me willing to work on a shitty part time job in serviceindustry. I am aware the failure chance is big but I decided to risk it. I agree with everything you said, even when trying to accomodate my passion with full time almost drove me to a mental breakdown (in my country extrahours onregular jobs are expected, withno extra pay, so I worked aprox 12 hours a shift every day ) it CAN be done. I don't regret my desision though, lets see how it rolls out. I gave myself a year to make significant progress or otherwise it's back to normalcy. Wish meluck Anthony ur the man.

Anthony Fantano is a very good role model.

Hey Anthony, personally im ready for spotify to go public and for the music industry to boom with the latest wave of trap music. hell yeah money + music. I'm ready to invest. :)

First Thatistheplan dies, then Fader blackmails Melon, and now we get a fantano video about having a fallback plan after a couple weeks of pretty low activity on TND...

17 Days into the new year and Anthony's already telling me I'm going to fail

Only thing is it's almost impossible to get your foot in the door for those corporate jobs in music if you don't already have music-related stuff on your resume.

thanks bro

It's never too late to learn skills that are in-demand. Trade schools have been a great source of success for a lot of people I know who didn't take the "standard" career or schooling path. Electricians, plumbers, I have friends who are making a happy living who went down the trade school path.

Best video ever!

Outstanding video. No joke. You are doing a lot of young folks a service with this. A suggestion for further viewing: a channel called Winners and Losers in the Digital Age is run by a Prof Galloway, a cool down to earth Prof at NYU. He posted a video about this that is awesome and gives real world hard headed 10 suggestions. Keep up the good work Antoine.

Music is all I have... I don't have a choice I just gotta move forward

Wow this shit came at a perfect time much obliged

good idea

my fallback plan is offing myself

graphic design is my passion 🐸

shit this is hard too think about. i hope i make it someday

but it's also true that if have a backup plan, chances are you will probably fallback on it whenever you meet a roadblock/hardship. There's great value in persevering for something you desire over a long period of time and don't get into something just for money/fame/success as they're not the best motivators for everyone. If you wanna do something, do it, love it, and work hard and just maybe you'll have a shot.