Thomas Rhett attended college for a couple of years before he left school to pursue music full time.  At one point he was studying to become an occupational therapist, although he says, “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.”

Even though none of those early aspirations came to fruition for Thomas his brief college education was still valuable because he says, “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.”

He says, “Yeah, college was not technically for me, but I did learn a little bit from it.”  And now Thomas is putting his communication skills to good use on the stage as the opening act on Jason Aldean’s Six String Circus Tour and on the radio and in interviews as he promotes his latest single, “Vacation.”

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Thomas Rhett – Labor Day  :38

“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.  Yeah, college was not technically for me, but I did learn a little bit from it.”