Career opportunities in the music industry

By Mike Switzer

Published July 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Jay Matheson, director of the Midlands Audio Institute in Columbia, S.C.

As with most career fields these days, our next guest’s industry is also suffering from shortages. That’s why his organization is going to soon be holding a job fair. Mike Switzer interviews Jay Matheson, director of the Midlands Audio Institute in Columbia, SC. The event is called Plugged In and is coming August 16th.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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