If Alexander Brandon has difficulty finding a position (he is arguably extremely well known in his particular niche, he is almost a celebrity), it must be crazy out there for younger kids with no experience.
That being said younger kids are more likely to accept shit pay and a garbage work setup.
A childhood friend of mine has a Harvard degree in finance. He is currently looking for a new job. He submitted 102 applications before he got a single callback. They didn't hire him.
That was a little over a year ago. He's still job hunting today. Fortunately, he still has work with his old company. He's not submitting his 2 weeks until he has another job lined up. But he just can't get callbacks with anyone. It's insane out there right now.
It's just as bad in information technology right now. My former employer liquidated all assets months back, including employees to stay afloat. Haven't been able to get to a single round three interview yet. Probably put in between 500 and 1,000 applications between November and now for various companies and locations worldwide. I'm not asking for an exuberant salary. Just base pay for my qualifications.
Harvard degree in finance
One would think that would help him get a job.
I am not from the US. but from my time living there, I got the impression that middling to weak results from a high reputation educational institution are almost worse than OK (or even not bad) results from a "mid tier" institution (e.g. state schools as the American refer to it).
While everyone's out here complaining about DLSS 5 ruining video game art, it's likely there will be full AI soundtracks in games and movies soon, a real shame. I will refuse to play or watch any such movie/game as a (lousy) musician.
Not to mention ML generated music sounds really off to me.
Much more so than voice acting. Could be a personal thing.
I can hear it as well. It sounds "sliced" up like an overly compressed MP3 file. It's not analog and we can tell.
Don't know about "analog", but I find ML generated music to have much more of an uncanny valley effect than voice work or art.
It sounds off and distracting.
There has been pushbacks every time a major game had anything with ai slop, so I'm not sure. Also why would anyone pay for something a machine did instead of pirating it?
I wonder if he'd be able to take commissions from indie developers.
Folks like Gianni Matragrano and Andrew Hulshult seem to do alright that way.
The economy is shifting. Drones and other weapons don't need a soundtrack IRL.
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