# Audio production career - need input

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audio-production-career-need-input/687195>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 28, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audio-production-career-need-input/687195 "2014-04-28T16:16:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audio-production-career-need-input/687195/1 "2014-04-28T16:16:02Z")

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So #4 daughter has decided that she wants to go into audio engineering/sound production. I am not sure why; she’s not a musician nor much of a techie. I suspect it’s because hanging around a recording studio all day looks cool.

I’ve done audio for for a long time, but only on a small scale - assembling and mastering video sound tracks, doing a cleaned-up CD release of concert performances, that sort of thing. Never sat at a big board except briefly and as an adjunct. So I understand the process and scope of things, at least a bit.

So… ignoring all the motivation and experience issues, how would a 21yo in her earliest college days get into sound production on a career level? What college major and minor? What trade-level training? What experience should she look for on an entry or intern level?