This workshop draws upon the author’s industry and career counselling experience offer a range of practical tools and processes that develop early career musicians’ industry readiness. Drawing on literature from the career development and coaching fields, and the author’s ongoing research work exploring early career musicians’ aspirations and challenges, participants will sample activities designed to engage musicians of all career stages in envisioning sustainable futures in music. While much of the existing music careers literature focuses on individual identity, agency and entrepreneurial skill, the music industries post-pandemic are increasingly shaped by a range of macro-level factors that extend beyond a person’s control (Author, 2021; Lundin et al., 2021). As the range of decisions musicians are required to make in the course of their career development continues to expand, López-Íñiguez and Burnard (2021) have suggested that learning pathways - “the constructed route that learners build through and outside their training programs to discover new ideas, pursue their interests, and develop their skills” (p.128) - are perhaps of greater interest to those seeking to better understand the music career experience.Ways musicians can adapt their skill set by expanding it further, for example, are abundant: DIY career development resources have proliferated on social media. Given that in circumstances of rapid change, such as the present conditions, individual adaptability can be compromised (see Coetzee, 2021), those in higher music education (HMEs) might consider the kinds of learning that an adaptability focus and these sources, cannot provide. Instead, considering how careers education in HMEs can foster agility - the capacity to be decisive in addressing uncertainty and the unexpected - may be of greater importance for sustaining both adaptability and well-being. In this way, we might not only work towards more inclusive ways of understanding how career learning supports possible pathways and futures, and also benefit from the insights afforded by understanding what we are prepared to let go of at the same time.The workshop activities explore a range of tools and activities that support early career musicians to consider ways they might construct “personally meaningful careers” (Coetzee, 2021, p. 36) and consider how educators might use and adapt the tools to support wide-ranging student engagement and differentiated learning environments.