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Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:18 pm
by cmgoodman1226
wait tables. Not the most glamorous job but it's pretty damn lucrative.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:37 pm
by hutyluty
i'm just filling in time before i end up working in poundland to pay for my benefits
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:51 pm
by terminus
im a wasteman, i dont even claim benefits
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:12 pm
by drake89
starting a gourmet/medicinal mushroom farm. haven't harvested anything yet but it's how I will be making money soon enough.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:36 pm
by Cryoshok
I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:38 pm
by hutyluty
Cryoshok wrote:I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\
so you work like distributing vaccines and stuff?
vital work, well done you.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:02 pm
by Cryoshok
hutyluty wrote:Cryoshok wrote:I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\
so you work like distributing vaccines and stuff?
vital work, well done you.
That is actually a big part of public health but my job specifically pertains to understanding and analyzing different disease trends within various populations with a focus on oncology. Then I go home and start up Fl Studio and cry.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:25 pm
by futures_untold
Cryoshok wrote:My job specifically pertains to understanding and analyzing different disease trends within various populations with a focus on oncology. Then I go home and start up Fl Studio and cry.
why not take your work home with you and load up images of the stuff you've been working on into Beepmap to kickstart some creativity???

Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:16 am
by yeolechap
I actually make music for a living , i work for a company called Blue House Collective , it's a pretty sweet gig.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:44 am
by alphacat
I.T. FTW!
Working in I.T. is not the worst thing that could happen to you. The culture is usually WAY relaxed, even at some notoriously square businesses like financial services, etc. - plus, most people don't know the difference between a sequencer and a spreadsheet, so as long as they don't see pumping VU meters or you with permanent rockface overbite, they probably won't suspect that you're actually working on music most of the time. Win-win. Oh, and the money's usually very good, and they're often less stringent about college degrees and whatnot, as long as you're competent and learn reasonably quickly.
Case in point: my college major was Art/Crit. Theory (

), I didn't even get a B.A. in that, and yet I'm now a software engineer for a financial services house.

Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:47 am
by benjam
Bowling alley technician/ student

Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:36 pm
by Undrig
I do tech support for a cable company. Lucky enough to be able to do it from home. Getting paid while I type this actually.
I have two kids, so I am happy to at least have a job where I have medical/dental insurance for my family. In all honesty everybody I know who makes a living on music barely scrape by and none of them have kids. Most semi successful people I know (musically speaking) who have non music jobs have to work part time too. Not many full time jobs will allow someone to skip town for a week to tour the opposite side of the country.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:20 pm
by Nibzz
I do security work at nights, come home, spend all the time I can on Ableton, then sleep, get up and go back to work. Repeat.
Before that I was unemployed for a fair while - luckily because I live in Britain that didn't hold back my production - because I still had a decent money coming in because my GF was unemployed too (decent pulled JSA/Dole) I could still produce when I had time (not looking for a job etc.).
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:51 pm
by legend4ry
Outsource IT Technician.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:25 am
by shim
i am an ice cream scooper AMA
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:30 am
by RandoRando
im currently a restaurany cashier but hate that shit, im trying to get a job as a records clerk at my local hospital.
what should i ask them when i call to follow up on my application? I have a family friend that ive known for 10+ years that is good friends with the head honcho of the hospital, i hope that helps.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:45 pm
by Brothulhu
RandoRando wrote:
what should i ask them when i call to follow up on my application? I have a family friend that ive known for 10+ years that is good friends with the head honcho of the hospital, i hope that helps.
Ask if their is anything else they need from you regarding your application
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:33 pm
by IC0N
I clean airplanes from 9pm to 7am Fri-Sun. Pays good and is pretty easy but has screwed my sleeping schedule.
Besides that I give drum lessons every now and then and I do random recording projects with friends.
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:42 pm
by Littlefoot
Re: $$$How do you guys make a living?$$$
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:43 pm
by caseydub
I am a security guard. I get disrespected for a living.
