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My Ideal Job

The document outlines the author's ideal job as a DJ, driven by a passion for music and travel. It details various pathways to becoming a DJ, including college courses, volunteering, and direct applications, as well as the skills required for club and radio DJs. Additionally, it highlights potential career advancements in music production and media work.

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My Ideal Job

The document outlines the author's ideal job as a DJ, driven by a passion for music and travel. It details various pathways to becoming a DJ, including college courses, volunteering, and direct applications, as well as the skills required for club and radio DJs. Additionally, it highlights potential career advancements in music production and media work.

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My ideal job

My ideal Job is a DJ and the main reason is that I love music and love to travel.

How to become a DJ?

You can get into this job through:

a college course

volunteering

applying directly

specialist training courses

You can apply directly for work as a DJ by contacting bars, clubs and radio stations. You'll
need to showcase your mixing and presenting skills, for example through your own
online music channel or by posting mixes on music streaming sites.

You can take training courses or attend DJ workshops, which are offered by private music
training providers that specialize in DJ skills, music technology and sound recording.

As a successful club DJ, you could move into music producing and recording, club
promoting, working for a record label or starting your own label.

As an established radio DJ, you could get involved in other types of media work, like TV
presenting.

As a club DJ you might:

play and mix records in clubs or bars, to create atmosphere or keep people
dancing

choose music to suit your audience's taste and the venue's music policy

operate lighting and visual effects in time to the beat

create your own sounds, manipulate beats, use samples, and add music and
sound effects

work with an MC who raps or sings over the music

As a radio DJ or presenter, you'll present a radio programme in your own style. You could:

choose the music to be played

keep up an entertaining and natural flow of chat

interact with the audience through phone-ins, emails, texts and social media

keep to a very tight timing schedule

interview studio guests

operate studio equipment to play music, pre-recorded news, jingles and


advertisements (known as 'driving the desk)

discuss ideas with the producer, write scripts and prepare playlists for future
shows.
You could work at events, on festival sites, at a music venue or at a recording
studio. Your working environment may be hot, noisy and you'll travel often.

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