what do you people do for a crust?

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:54 pm

Heh. I have a very "not" musical occ. I work for a giant Antivirus/Security company. Since I am like a Network Fireman it does leave some time to play on all of the computers around me. The managers do give me funny looks with my external hardrives and midi keyboards hooked up and volume meters in Live always bouncing about. It's when I get home that the crust gets it's filling.

That's probably why I never get more than a few hours of shut eye (yawn)

The kids gotta eat and I can't afford to not record.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:09 pm

Mbazzy wrote:
hoffman2k wrote:
borg wrote:studied economics. have done many things (containership planning, administration, electrician, gardner,...), but now i'm quite happy being a theatre technician. mainly as junior sound eng, but also lights and video, fly loft,... once in a while i'm asked to take care of the soundtrack for amateur plays/dance performances. sometimes very long days/weeks, but that means also a lot of long periods off, and a long summer
not a real great salary, but more than decent.

hoffman, what's wrong with belgium? people die of old age, car accidents and incurable diseases (i have been suffering from chronical bronchitis for a few years, so i made an appointment with a lung specialist in a hospital. FIVE days later i was in for four hours of all kinds of alergy/blood/... tests, X-ray, all very expensive equipment. two specialist doctors, three assistant nurses. i'm cured now... for 54 EUROS!!! this is a frickin' great country). we have the biggest concentration of music festivals/concerts/raves/... in the world. economically we're far better off than our neighbouring countries, way more than 50% vote for center or left wing parties, ... i was unemployed for a few months and got nearly 1000 euros/month for smoking pot and getting to know zappa a bit more (although that may sound ambiguous... )
ok, it's ugly as hell, and belgian football sucks big time, just like the weather, but hey...

a satisfied theatre technician i am.
I should probably move to a big city. I live on the coast and it sucks.
The only cool thing about living here is being ten minutes away from the netherlands border
There are also very little job opportunities where i live so getting out of here is hard as hell. Lots of jobs in the city's but you need money to live there.
If it weren't for that f$$$ing € i'd be living in a mansion now.
Good thing you reminded me today about that unemployment thing.
I have to go get my pot money.
Heheh, another beach boy ... Andy/Borg is right Belgium is a nice place if you put everything in perspective.

Myself I lived For 22 years at the coast (Nieuwpoort-bad) , than moved inland (Antwerp->Brugge->Gent)... at the time I thought as well that there was nothing for young people in the coastal area , but now 16 years older , everything is in a different perspective I'm looking forwards to (hopefully) return there one day ...

If you come from the sea , one day you'll return .. it's a law of physics ...

Belgium isn't big enough to not end up at the beach by accident.
We probably represent the smallest country on this forum. Any people from Luxembourg / liechtenstein?
I've been thinking about moving to Ghent. But to actually make the move is a whole other thing.

Andy is right about the scene around here though. It's a great country for party's but it's not actually improving. It's getting hard to find a good venue. And clearchannel is really messing things up too.
Ah well. Like Bruce Lee said. Time to move out.

Quote:

Any structure, however intelligently designed, becomes a cage if the student is obsessed with it.
[...but...]
There is a subtle difference between "having no form" and having "no-form": the first is ignorance, the second, transcendence.

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The quote actually applies to another situation discussed in this thread.
The bruce lee school of music
But it applies to many situations.

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:12 pm

udp wrote:
Kodama wrote:I'm an IT Analyst at Dallas City Hall.

I was gonna say prostitute, but someone beat me
You really should have your pimp take care of those rough "johns".

I know, those old bitches can hit!

summersc2002 · Post by **summersc2002** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:27 pm

im in the faggot ass navy!

tommy2000 · Post by **tommy2000** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:20 pm

am wrote:in the interests of a different thread appearing....

i'm intrigued as to what everyone does here outside of internet forums and music making....

a free waffle cone with sprinkles for the strangest occupation.

I help sell databases for IBM. No sprinkle cone there.

Tom

Macrostructure · Post by **Macrostructure** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:37 pm

I encountered a lot of racism in Antwerp. I believe they elected Philip De Winter as head of the council in 2003 on an extreme right wing election pledge. I got arrested for jaywalking by a cop half my age. Children playing in the Stadspark playground had to put up with rent boys working plainly within site all day and night while their parents checked the sandpit for needles. My building was full of cockroaches. There were two racist shootings while I lived there. Taxes are very high and I didn't get healthcare. I got shafted by three promoters. And my (ex)girlfriend got electrocuted....and survived....I don't know which I regret most

Country roads, take me home....

ms

reset · Post by **reset** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:59 am

Inventory Control Specilist at an AV company. Very little time to play.

borg · Post by **borg** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:36 am

Macrostructure wrote:I encountered a lot of racism in Antwerp. I believe they elected Philip De Winter as head of the council in 2003 on an extreme right wing election pledge. I got arrested for jaywalking by a cop half my age. Children playing in the Stadspark playground had to put up with rent boys working plainly within site all day and night while their parents checked the sandpit for needles. ms

i understand your worries, and it's not going to get better when the next elections will give us a mayor, not coming from the coalition, but from individual vote count. meaning mr De Winter, face of the extreme right wing. i don't know what's in store for us... i live in borgerhout islam on the left, orthodox jews on the right, so far it seems quite ok, given the rather bad world mess we're in. but i'm out... this summer i'm gonna leave for the country side. apart from having everything consumable close at hand, the city doesn't really offer me anything anymore.

but the cockroaches, your gf, and the promoters... can't blame a city for that.

mbazzy/hoffman: i'd trade the coast or ghent for antwerp anytime!

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:21 am

Musical Electron Herder.

I play keyboards in my band, do production for other bands, soundtracks for dance/theatre/film and do commercial music occasionally. I live next to the beach where they filmed "The Piano" and can't pick up any radio or TV reception unless I shell out for Sky, which is why I'm on this forum a lot.

paddy

Beatworld · Post by **Beatworld** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:00 am

Well its always risky admitting to this but........I'm a lawyer

I was a fulltime drummer/percussionist until I was about 27 and then I started studying law. I kept playing in bands throughout my studies and continue to play in bands.....hopefully that will never stop.

Being a lawyer has enabled me to afford the studio I have had for the last 10 years or so. I doing mixing and mastering for clients as well as producing my own Beatworld CDs. I have done a few remixes as well.

Altho I was a partner in a law firm for a few years I decided that quality of life is far more important than money. I got out of the partnership and now work 4 days a week as a lawyer which is a great compromise.

Thats about it

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