Music Industry Internships: The Complete Guide for Breaking Into the Business in 2026

In 1995, after a 14-hour unpaid shift, I slept in a recording studio because I’d missed the last bus and didn’t have enough money for a taxi home. I was also due in work at 10 am the following morning in a well-known record shop I also worked in. The studio owner found me at 4 am. I thought I’d be sacked. Instead, he gave me the keys and a paid position. That’s the not-so-unusual internship story from the generation that built this industry. In 2026, that same scenario would probably earn him a £50,000 National Minimum Wage violation fine. The rules have definitely changed, some for the better, some which have closed doors. Here’s the system you’re actually entering.

That studio owner was breaking the law by not paying me. The record shop paid me, but I can’t remember how much an hour under the table. Both jobs together barely covered rent, and I definitely had barely any money to buy my records as a DJ. I still look back on it as the best education I could have got. This creates an uncomfortable paradox in 2026: the system that built the careers of everyone currently hiring you is now illegal. The National Minimum Wage protections that should make internships fairer have actually made them less accessible; only major labels and established management companies can afford £12.21/hour plus supervision overhead. In 2010, IQ Artist Management ran 6-8 unpaid internships simultaneously. In 2026, we will run two paid ones. The NMW legislation has killed opportunities at the small indies where 90% of creative career-building actually happens. I pay my interns now because it’s the law. But I’m not convinced the law made anything fairer; it just moved opportunities from working-class kids who could do two days a week unpaid to middle-class kids whose parents can support them through six-month paid placements at the majors.

About The Author

I started in 1995 as an unpaid intern at a Liverpool recording studio (it’s a Costa Coffee now). Worked my way from sleeping on studio floors to founding IQ Artist Management in 2010. Since then, I’ve supervised 100+ interns across artist management, A&R, marketing, and operations. Twenty are still working in music – a 40% retention rate that reflects this industry’s brutal reality.

I have an MA in Music Industry Studies from University of Liverpool. It taught me theoretical frameworks and critical analysis that inform how I think about the business. It provided zero practical skills in campaign execution or client relations. Both are true. The academic foundation mattered. The practical skills came from doing (and getting it wrong first).

I’ve placed former interns at Sony Music UK, Universal, Kobalt, and smaller management companies. I’ve also contributed to UK Music’s Internship Code of Practice discussions, advocating for paid standards that comply with NMW regulations – though I’m conflicted about whether those regulations helped or hurt access for working-class candidates. I’ve seen this from both sides. I slept on studio floors in 1995 working unpaid. We now pay interns £12.21/hour in 2026 because it’s the law. I’m still not convinced the new system is fairer, it’s just different.

This guide focuses specifically on UK music industry internships. The US model differs significantly, unpaid internships are more legally defensible there, major labels operate differently, and the BBC Radio system we reference doesn’t exist. If you’re outside the UK, the strategic principles apply, but legal requirements and institutional structures will differ.

The Current State of the UK Music Industry in 2026

The music industry press releases say we’re booming. The financial data says recorded music revenues grew 8.2% globally in 2024. The lived reality for IQ Artist Management: we had seven festival appearances cancelled between June 2024 and March 2025, wiping out £43,000 in artist income. But those same artists did 12 brand-sponsored club nights and livestream performances that didn’t exist pre-pandemic, generating £67,000. The UK music economy isn’t booming or crashing, it’s relocating. According to UK Music’s 2024 Venues Report, grassroots venues are closing at approximately 3 per week. Meanwhile, BPI’s Annual Report shows recorded music revenues grew 8.2% globally in 2024, though live music revenue declined 12% in the same period. Festivals are having to consolidate or face flat-out dying. Grassroots venues, such as XOYO London, recently, are closing at a rate of around 3 per week. The dichotomy is real. If you’re interning in 2026, stop learning the old system as it collapses. Learn the emerging one.

Key Trends Shaping the British Music Scene

Streaming services and TikTok aren’t ‘shaping’ the UK music industry, they are the UK music industry now. In 2019, IQ Artist Management spent 40% of our marketing budget on playlist plugging, 30% on press, 20% on radio, and 10% on social. In 2025, music marketing strategies have fundamentally shifted, it’s closer to 65% TikTok/social, 25% playlist, 10% selective press, 0% radio. Radio didn’t become less important; it became irrelevant for breaking new artists under the major label system. An artist can now go from bedroom producer to 500K monthly Spotify listeners without ever speaking to a radio plugger, a journalist, or a traditional A&R. They do need to understand TikTok’s algorithm better than I do (which every 19-year-old does). They do need to treat Spotify’s ‘Release Radar’ and ‘Discover Weekly’ playlist mechanics like a science. And they need to accept that ‘making it’ now means reaching 100K monthly listeners and earning £18K a year from streams, not getting a major label deal. The economics changed. The pathways changed. If you’re interning in 2026 and still focused on traditional radio promotion and press coverage, you’re learning an archaic system.

The music industry is currently facing an AI tsunami that most internship guides won’t mention, simply because it’s such a divisive issue. Tools like Suno, Udio, and other generative AI music platforms are trained on copyrighted recordings without permission or compensation. We don’t use them. Neither do 90% of the professional musicians and managers I speak to. The legal challenges are coming as well, with multiple lawsuits against these platforms already in progress as of 2025. The UK Copyright Tribunal will likely reshape what is considered permissible. Following the Warner and Universal licensing deals in late 2025, independent artists and managers need strategic frameworks for positioning against AI competition that go beyond simple ethical objections, understanding market positioning, client communications, and revenue protection matters more than ideology. If you’re interning in 2026 and your supervisor asks you to use generative AI tools that were trained on scraped copyrighted material, understand you’re working for someone who either doesn’t understand music copyright law or doesn’t care about it. Regardless of what new licenses are in place, neither is a good sign.

That said, not all AI tools are ethically equivalent. We have used Lalal.ai for stem separation (a technical process that doesn’t generate new copyrighted material), ChatGPT and Claude for administrative tasks like scheduling and email drafts, and analytics tools that use AI to identify playlist opportunities. There is a distinction; these are assistive AI. Tools that analyse, organise, or process existing work are different from tools that generate derivative works from scraped training data. If you’re interning in A&R or management in 2026, you need to understand this legal and ethical distinction. The supervisors who don’t are the ones who’ll be defending lawsuits in 2027.

Understanding Music Industry Internships and Their Value

When I review artist projections with interns, most don’t understand that 100K monthly Spotify streams generates approximately £300-400 per month before splits. If you’re interning in A&R or management, you need to understand PRS/PPL collection, publishing splits, and why sync licensing income often exceeds streaming revenue for mid-tier artists. A firm grasp of how music publishing contract’s structure these right, can also be extremely useful. These aren’t the academic concepts they seem, they’re weekly conversations and fundamental to how the job works.

Music internships exist because the industry has no formal training system. There’s no Royal Academy of Artist Management. There’s no vocational qualification in A&R. You learn by doing, usually by doing it wrong first, then figuring out why it was wrong, then doing it slightly less wrong. An internship compresses that learning curve from ten years to six months. But only if you’re actually doing real work. If you’re spending three months filing expense reports and scheduling meetings, you’re being exploited, not educated. The legal test under NMW regulations is whether your work ‘primarily benefits the employer‘ (they must pay you) or ‘primarily benefits you as learning’ (they don’t, if it’s formal education). In practice, most music internships benefit both equally, which means they should be paid – and increasingly are. But this also means fewer internship positions exist, because small management companies and indie labels can’t afford to pay someone £12.21/hour to learn on the job while providing limited immediate value. That’s not their fault. That’s just the economic reality of the situation.

What Makes Music Industry Internships Unique

Music internships don’t follow the corporate graduate scheme model. There’s no structured training program, no assigned mentor checking your weekly progress, and definitely no HR onboarding about workplace culture. You’re thrown into a release week for an artist you’ve never heard of and told to ‘handle the Instagram comments.’ By day three, you’re expected to know the artist’s full discography, their aesthetic boundaries, and which Spotify playlists rejected them last campaign. It’s chaotic. If you need structure and clear task assignment, corporate graduate schemes exist – this isn’t that. If you thrive in organised chaos where the job description changes based on what’s on fire that week, you’ll fit.

Realistic Expectations for First-Time Interns

The reality of being a first-time intern is being able to finely balance two very real components. Being proactive and showing initiative. Yet, recognising when to trust the expertise in the room.

In 2019, an intern wanted to pitch one of our artists to BBC Radio 1. I told her: ‘Radio 1 won’t play this artist, wrong demographic, wrong sound for their current playlist strategy. Target Radio 6 Music instead.’ She ignored my advice and spent two weeks crafting a Radio 1 pitch. They rejected it in 24 hours without feedback. When she finally pitched Radio 6 Music three weeks later, they’d already filled their ‘new music’ slots for the month. The opportunity window closed because she didn’t trust my experience about how radio programming actually works. I’d been right about Radio 1’s taste 47 times in the previous 18 months. Sometimes the experienced person in the room is just… experienced. Know when to challenge up, and know when to trust expertise you don’t have yet.

That being said, you should absolutely be proactive. If something needs doing, volunteer, that’s obvious. But pair that with judgment about which hills are worth dying on. Challenging your supervisor’s Spotify playlist strategy when you’ve been there two weeks? Not that hill. You’ll be memorable for the right reasons when you show both initiative and the wisdom to recognise what you don’t know yet. It used to be called, being a valued team member, your colleagues need to be able to trust you, not assume you are some loose cannon constantly challenging the status quo.

Types of Music Industry Internships Available in the UK

The UK music industry has many different internships in many different areas.

These opportunities are specifically developed to help new professionals learn and grow in their careers.

Major Record Labels

Applying to Sony, Universal, or Warner first is, in my experience, backwards, but everyone does it. Here’s what those applications actually look like from the inside: 600+ applications for 8 internship spots. AI CV screeners filtering for Russell Group universities. Phone screening by 22-year-old junior coordinators (who were interns 18 months ago) looking for ‘culture fit’, which means you talk about the same artists they do. If you make it to final interviews, you’re competing against the MD’s nephew and someone whose dad plays golf with the A&R director. I’m not being cynical, I know that interviewer. One intern who was hired at Sony UK, got through because her video application analysed a failed campaign launch we’d done, with specific alternate strategy recommendations. She didn’t compliment us, she showed us we’d got it wrong. That’s the calibre required. Understanding label signing processes, A&R evaluation criteria, and deal structures demonstrates industry knowledge beyond surface-level artist fandom, it shows you understand the business mechanics that drive label decisions.

Independent Labels and Music Companies

Beyond the major labels, intern opportunities exist in many companies such as indie labels, artist management, A&R, digital marketing, and live events. The pattern: smaller operations need generalists who can handle admin, socials, and strategy. Majors need specialists who excel at one function. You need to know what you’re built for. Two-person management companies where you’re answering phones, pitching playlists, and handling tour logistics in the same afternoon? Or major label departments where you’ll spend six months exclusively on TikTok analytics for one campaign?

Paid vs. Unpaid Opportunities: Navigating UK Regulations

Contrary to popular belief, not all internships are unpaid some are paid opportunities. The legalities aren’t optional, and they’re more complex than most internship guides admit. Get this wrong and you’re either breaking the law as an employer or being exploited as an intern.

Legal Requirements for British Internships

In the United Kingdom, internships have strict rules, especially regarding pay. Under UK law, an intern is seen as a ‘worker’ if they help the employer, and are not in school. Under this proviso, they are fully entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) unless they’re on a work experience or training placement.

Key factors determining whether an internship is considered ‘work’ include:

• The extent to which the intern’s work benefits the employer
• Whether the intern is displacing a paid employee
• The level of supervision and control the employer has over the intern
• The intern must not be ‘shadowing’ or observing an employee

National Minimum Wage Considerations

The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 sets the rules for paying interns in the UK. From April 1st 2025, employers must pay ‘workers’, including interns over the age of 23, the National Living Wage of at least £12.21 an hour. Rates for under 23 and 21+ are also £12.21 per hour as the National Minimum wage. 18 – 20 year olds can expect to be paid £10.00 per hour.

Not paying the NMW and or NLW can lead to fines and serious harm to a company’s reputation.

“Employers don’t have to pay the NMW if the internship is part of a formal education or training. But, this only applies if the internship is a required part of the course and the student gets an academic credit or is assessed.” UK Music

Benefits Beyond Compensation

Let me be clear about unpaid internships: they’re almost certainly illegal if you’re doing actual work. The NMW exemptions only apply if the internship is part of formal education where you’re being assessed, or if you’re truly just shadowing/observing rather than doing work that benefits the employer. If you’re handling artist social media, filing contracts, or coordinating schedules, that’s work. That must be paid. The fact that you’re also learning doesn’t change the legal requirement. I’ve seen too many small management companies and indie labels rationalise unpaid placements by saying, ‘but they’re learning so much!’ Yes. And you’re benefiting from their labour. Pay them.

That said, here’s the uncomfortable reality: when we ran unpaid internships in 2010-2014, I could afford to take chances on candidates with no experience, no Russell Group degree, and no industry connections, because there was no financial risk. Since moving to paid-only internships, we have had to become more selective. I can’t afford to pay someone £12.21/hour for three months if there’s a 50% chance they’ll quit after week two because they realised music industry work is actually admin-heavy and unglamorous. The NMW protections made internships fairer for those who get them. They also made internships scarcer and harder to access. If you’re offered an unpaid music internship in 2026, check: Is it part of your university course with academic assessment? That’s legal. Are you shadowing without doing actual work tasks? Probably legal (though pointless). Are you answering emails, managing socials, or coordinating anything? Illegal. Report it to HMRC or walk away. The same legal rigor applies across the industry, navigating UK music contracts requires understanding statutory frameworks that protect both artists and industry professionals. The industry will only pay interns fairly if we stop accepting unfair terms.

Educational Pathways to Music Industry Internships

Here’s what nobody tells you about music degrees: they’re necessary but not sufficient. Many employers require a degree as a baseline credential – it gets your CV past HR filters. But in 15 years of hiring, I’ve never chosen between two candidates based on whose dissertation was better. The degree gets you into the room. What you built outside the lecture hall determines if you get the job.

I have an MA in Music Industry Studies from University of Liverpool. It taught me theoretical frameworks, industry history, and critical analysis skills that genuinely inform how I think about the business. It also provided zero practical skills in artist management, campaign execution, or client relations. Both things are true. The academic knowledge created a foundation. The practical skills came from doing.

When I review internship applications, I’m looking for degrees AND evidence you’ve applied that knowledge. A Music Business Management degree tells me you understand industry structures. A Music Business Management degree plus a YouTube channel analysing streaming economics, or experience managing socials for a local artist, or a self-released EP that got 5K organic streams, tells me you can execute, not just theorise. If you’re deciding between universities, it makes a lot of sense to prioritise the ones with industry partnerships and placement programmes. But don’t choose a university solely because its prospectus mentions partnerships with major labels. Every music programme advertises those. Look for universities where current students can name specific internships they got through direct institutional referrals, not just “opportunities to apply.”

The reality is that a relevant degree plus demonstrable practical skills is the strongest combination. A degree alone is increasingly insufficient. Practical skills alone might get you an internship at a small indie, but will limit progression to companies that require formal qualifications. You need both in 2026.

British Universities and Colleges with Industry Partnerships

Many UK universities and colleges have long-standing music industry partnerships. This offers students direct internship and job opportunities. For example, the University of Salford works with the major record labels, some other examples include.

• University of Gloucester – Partnerships with UK Music for industry access
• University of Leeds – Collaborations with The School of Music to offer opportunities in places such as the Royal Northern College of Music
• University of Westminster – Abbey Road Studios and industry connections through its music business program

Self-Taught Skills That Impress UK Employers

Whilst education is good, great in fact, some self-taught skills impress UK employers too. Being experienced with digital audio workstations (DAWs) like Ableton or Logic Pro is valued and can help your career in the music industry. Additionally, so are deep social media marketing and content creation skills.

Employers are looking for initiative and creativity. Running a successful music blog or YouTube channel for example, shows that you have not only identified your audience but you can engage audiences and promote artists well.

How to Find and Apply for Music Industry Internships in 2026

The UK music industry has many internship chances. But, finding and applying for them can be tough without the right help and dare I say, experience. This is an educated guess but the UK music industry most likely hired approximately 450-500 interns across the major labels in 2024. If you’re applying through Music Week Jobs, you’re competing with 5,000+ other candidates for those 450 spots. Not the best odds.

Where to Discover Legitimate Opportunities

Using UK-specific job boards such as Music Week and UK Music Jobs should be your first point of call.

Also, many UK music festivals and events, like Glastonbury and Reading/Leeds, post internship chances on their websites fairly frequently.

And of course, many music companies, like Sony Music UK and Universal Music Group, list their internships on their websites in the jobs/careers section. These are all good places to start your search.

Networking Strategies for the British Music Scene

Most internship guides (including this one) will tell you to check Music Week Jobs and UK Music Jobs first. I think that’s backwards. In my experience, by the time an internship is posted on a public job board, 200 people have already applied. Your CV goes into a pile where you’re statistically invisible. Here’s what I have found works, don’t apply where everyone else applies. Find artists with 50K-500K monthly Spotify listeners, not so small they have no budget, not so big they have established teams. Google their manager (usually listed in Spotify artist metadata or Instagram bios). You’re looking for solo operators or 2-3 3-person companies.

These are people who need help but can’t afford to post job listings and conduct formal recruitment. Cold email them, not asking for an internship, but offering a specific, useful analysis of their artist’s growth opportunity. ‘I noticed [artist] has 73K monthly listeners but only 8K Instagram followers, suggesting your audience discovery is streaming-led. Here’s a three-month TikTok strategy to convert listeners to engaged followers.’ This demonstrates you understand their specific business, not just that you want to work in music generally. Half won’t respond. A quarter will say thanks, but no thanks. The remaining quarter might say ‘interesting, can we talk?’ That conversation leads to internships that never get posted publicly. Once you’ve done 3-6 months with a small manager, building real skills, then apply to major labels with actual experience on your CV. Music Week Jobs should be your last resort, not your first.

For transparency: IQ Artist Management receives approximately 40-50 cold emails monthly from prospective interns. We respond to fewer than 30%. The strategy I’ve outlined here works, but you need to be realistic and understand that even when executed well, most applications will not be successful.

Networking Strategies for the British Music Scene

Networking is crucial but, it isn’t about collecting business cards at The Great Escape. When I attend industry events, I watch many interns make the same mistake. They approach executives with the “I’m looking for opportunities, do you have any advice?” line. That puts the burden on the executive to think of something helpful to say to a complete stranger. If you are going to say defato ‘read it on the internet’ questions, well, expect the same quality of answers.

Instead, identify three people you want to meet before the event. Maybe research what they’re working on. Approach with a specific observation: “I saw your artist got added to Hot New Bands playlist, and, I noticed their Instagram following didn’t grow proportionally. I think that’s a TikTok discoverability problem. Can I show you a 2-minute analysis?” Half will brush you off. The other half will be intrigued that you’ve done your homework. Useful networking events in the UK include:

1. The Great Escape Festival: A festival in Brighton that shows new talent and hosts industry events
2. Music Week’s annual conference: A top industry conference that brings together UK music professionals
3. London Calling: A conference and festival that celebrates indie and emerging talent

Also join Music Managers Forum and UK music industry subreddits, online communities where you can demonstrate expertise before asking for opportunities.

Application Timeline and Process for 2026

Sony, Universal, and Warner open applications in September-October for January-April starts. Miss that window and you’re waiting another year, unless you know someone. They interview in November-December. If you’re applying in March for a March start date, you’re four months too late.

Here’s what they don’t advertise: they also have rolling positions that open when someone quits unexpectedly, or a team gets budget approval mid-year. Those positions never get posted publicly; they get filled by someone’s former intern or a referral from a trusted manager. This is why cold emailing small managers first builds the network that gets you into the majors later.

Summer internships are the most competitive. They align with student schedules and breaks, and so the competition is super high. If you can do internships during term-time (even two days a week), you’ll face 60% less competition. Most students can’t manage this. If you can, it’s an advantage.

Indie labels and small management companies don’t have these formal recruitment cycles. They tend to hire when they’re overwhelmed with a large project or a new signing. Something out of the norm. So, watch their social media for signs they’re busy (new signings, multiple campaigns running simultaneously), then reach out with an offer to help with specific tasks.

Making the Most of Your Music Industry Internship

I can tell you within three weeks whether an intern will get a job offer. It’s not about skill level, half don’t even know what A&R stands for when they start. It’s about pattern recognition: do they see problems and fix them, or wait to be told what needs fixing? An opportunity outside of work, get involved. This way, you’ll have the most productive and rewarding experience in your journey for industry experience.

Building Meaningful Professional Relationships

Building relationships in music isn’t about collecting contacts – it’s about demonstrating value before asking for anything. The interns I’ve successfully placed at major labels understood this instinctively.

In 2018, one of our interns wanted to meet a particular A&R manager at Sony whom I’d worked with for many years. Instead of asking me for an introduction, she spent two weeks researching the manager’s recent signings. She noticed a pattern: three of their last four signings had come from the same YouTube tastemaker channel featuring bedroom pop artists. She created a 3-minute video analysis showing how that channel’s audience demographic aligned with Sony’s current roster gaps, then asked if I’d forward it to the manager with context about her internship.

I forwarded it because she’d done work worth sharing. The A&R manager replied within an hour asking to meet her. Not because she was my intern – because she’d identified something useful about their signing strategy they hadn’t articulated themselves. That’s how you build relationships: provide value first, ask for nothing, let the relationship develop naturally from demonstrated competence.

When that intern finished her placement and applied to roles elsewhere, I could cite five specific examples of strategic thinking like that. Those aren’t just reference points – they’re proof she understands how the industry works. If your supervisor finishes your internship and struggles to name three specific moments you impressed them, you were reliable but not memorable. Reliable gets you a polite reference. Memorable gets you hired.

Taking Initiative and Demonstrating Value

Being proactive directly shows your direct worth to a company. In 2017, one of our interns noticed that one of our artists was getting tagged in Instagram stories by a micro-influencer. They had around 22K followers, based in Manchester, and were was playing their tracks at small club nights. The intern didn’t ask me what to do. She reached out to the influencer (under supervision), built a relationship over three weeks, and arranged for our artist to potentially do a free 20-minute guest set at their next event. That event was attended by a promoter who later booked our artist for four paid shows. Revenue generated? £8,000. Initiative demonstrated: exactly the kind I hire for. That intern is now a manager here, and I trust her implicitly because she saw an opportunity, assessed whether it was worth pursuing, and executed without needing supervision. She then presented it to us, before any unrealistic ‘promises’ had been made.

That’s the pattern: see problem/opportunity → solve/execute → report results. Not: see problem → ask what to do → wait for instructions → maybe execute. Strategic initiative is where you assess risk, make a judgment call, and act, its what converts internships to job offers. Generic initiatives like ‘helping with a music launch’ when asked prove you’re reliable. Unrequested initiative that generates £8,000 in revenue proves you’re hireable.

From Intern to Employee: Success Stories from the UK Music Scene

Jamie (name changed) started with IQ Artist Management in around July 2016 as a three-day-a-week intern. His job was administrative, updating our CRM, filing contracts, and scheduling the socials. Fairly standard entry tasks. In October, one of our artists got dropped from a festival lineup with 48 hours’ notice due to stage scheduling conflicts. Jamie, without being asked, (under supervision) cold-called 14 London venues, found a replacement show, negotiated a door-split deal, and had it ready to announce before I even knew the festival spot was lost. That specific action, seeing a problem and solving it without supervision, led to a paid junior coordinator role three months later. He now heads up operations at a well known international publishing company. That’s not a ‘success story’, it’s the pattern recognition of what you need to do to make it in this industry. Interns who fix actual problems convert to employees. Interns who complete assigned tasks reliably get good references but rarely job offers.

And finally… Your Roadmap to Music Industry Success

Of the 100+ interns we’ve supervised since 2010, twenty are still working in music. Maybe 30 if you count the ones doing social media for music-adjacent brands. The others went into corporate marketing, tech, teaching, or decided £22,000 junior salaries in London simply weren’t sustainable. And they made the right decision. Understanding how independent musicians actually make money in 2026, through email lists, Patreon, sync licensing, and diversified revenue streams beyond streaming, provides essential context for the artist business models you’ll support as an intern in management or A&R roles.

This industry is functionally unstable, festivals cancel with 48 hours’ notice, label restructures happen quarterly, and you’ll work 60-hour weeks for years before hitting £30K. If you’re doing an internship because you ‘love music,’ you’ll burn out. Everyone loves music. If you’re doing it because you cannot imagine doing anything else, and the chaos is part of the appeal, you might be one of the 20. For those who commit to this path, sustainable artist career development requires strategic planning frameworks beyond just securing internships, understanding revenue modelling, skill assessment matrices, and 18-month implementation timelines determines who builds lasting careers versus who burns out after three years.This guide is designed around the reality of how to break in.

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