Thomas Rhett Thinks His College Career Helped His Stage Presence

So far it seems Thomas Rhett made the right career decision to become a country music singer. But before Rhett got into the music industry, he was just an average young adult who went off to college in search of his job path.

Heading to school in Tennessee, the country singer had intentions of possibly following music at some point in his life. Nevertheless, he registered and became a student of communications at his university in order to learn a little bit more about the importance of that media field. Even though he didn’t continue on in his major, Rhett still likes to think some of his education influenced him in his stage persona.

“I don’t really know what I’d be doing if I wasn’t doing this because I feel like when I was 16 I went and worked on a farm. When I was 18 to about 21, I was laying hardwood floors with my uncle in Nashville and then I went to college and I was doing that through college. I don’t even think I did well in anatomy so I don’t think that occupational therapy would have been good for me. But I did major in communications and I feel like whatever I learned, I feel like is being translated to a crowd, rather than to a conference room. So it’s amazing the things I did learn in college being used is a way of songwriting and business and trying to learn, how to grow a business and stuff like that. College was not technically for me, but I did learn a little bit from it,” he explained recently.

It’s true to point out for Rhett that sometimes college isn’t always the match for every person. As living proof himself, the “T-Shirt” singer has become quite successful in his own career by taking an alternative route to the university lifestyle and is grateful to love what he does for a living.

Rhett has been using his school skills while on stage during the Six String Circus Tour with Jason Aldean as well as in promoting his current radio single, “Vacation,” off his album, Tangled Up.