This is reality (business) vs college (academic) lesson (and similar to the tired jokes about brushing off your algorithms books only for interviews). One time

This is reality (business) vs college (academic) lesson (and similar to the tired jokes about brushing off your algorithms books only for interviews). One time I asked a musician with a degree if I should go back to school for music. I was wondering if he thought it was worth the money and time. He said: "You can go learn all this stuff and you'll know everything about every song you hear. You'll understand all the underlying structures and how to write it out on paper. And music will become an entirely different thing to you. But guess what? You'll be broke, because that's not what people pay musicians for. They pay musicians to sound good and sell alcohol. All that other stuff only matters to people trying to pass their final."