There are number of different career paths in music:
- Education
- Classroom Education
- Primary, Secondary, or Higher Education
- Applied Instrument Instruction
- Higher Education
- Private Studio
- Performance
- Per-Service (freelance)
- Tenure-Track Orchestral (full-time)
- Music Information Services
- Librarians
- Archivists
- Publishing
- Music Streaming Services (Musicology / Librarianship / IT)
- Metadata Creation
- Listener Analysis
- Music Curation
- Military Music
- Conductor (Commissioned or Warrant Officer)
- Bandsman Performer (Enlisted)
- Special Bands (Permanent Appointment by Audition)
- Instrumentalists
- Vocalists
- Conductors
- Support & Production (Library, Sound, Operations, etc.)
- Production and Engineering
- Composition
- Music Therapy
- Music Business / Management
- Church Music
- Cruise Industry
