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Day job: Literacy & Numeracy Development Worker
Occasional Freelance Job: Writer

If I wasn't so lazy/spent so much time on this forum I would definitely make more music. Got to get my act together.

Daytime: full time student at Florida Atlantic University. Finance Major a ( year behind graduating)
Night: mac freak, guitar slashing, bass pumpin crazed lunatic.

Corporate slave for a giant security and Anti-virus company.

My passion is music . So much so that it cost me my marriage and all but about 4 hours sleep a night. I keep the chains on for my two beautiful angels though. They come first.

I am working hard on a plan to change that though and so far so good. I just need a very large airplane, cargo netting, 700 unused french swimsuits, and 40 tons of spray foam and I'll be able to make my move.

daytime: electrical engineer wrenching on audio equipment, good gig close to home.

nighttime: 33 years old, just married. Ableton, guitar, console games, don't really read or watch TV.

someday: retired, sitting on a beach playing guitar with no clue what the outside world is up to.

Alex Baldwin wrote:What's your day job?

digital audio technician here

lol spiderprod gettin the kids started early huh!

I have a dream job creating cg special fx for movies. I specialize in particle effects like smoke, debris, explosions, fire, leaves, etc. If you've ever seen Men In Black II, I made Frank the pug's cigar smoke... Always thought I should have been able to write-off my old smoking habit as a tax deduction... it being a *cough* *cough* "work reference" and all ya know.

At night I spend most of my time with my wife and our lovely new daughter!

-scotty

DeadlyKungFu, do you play enemy territory tc:e mod ?if not then you should try its pretty cool fps, am playin' it day and night

I collect bottles and cans.
I then use them as props in my hardcore-porn production company.
I can still return them for a 5¢ afterwards.

/. wrote:DeadlyKungFu, do you play enemy territory tc:e mod ?if not then you should try its pretty cool fps, am playin' it day and night

Haven't seen it. I'm mostly PS2 (I picked up Gran Turismo 4 again) and I haven't re-installed any games on my PC since I rebuilt it a month ago. Back then it was mostly Unreal Tournament, Onslaught mode, I get my ass handed to me in deathmatch games.

I swing between games, guitar, turntables and synth noise madness every few months, I jump around between toys. Ableton is about the only constant because I use it with whatever musical mood I'm in unless it's sitting on the couch jamming acoustic (been trying to learn the entire Beatles catalog).

Work in IT in london....boring job...wish i worked in the music industry full time...doing something i love!

4 nights a week i get people drunk

for the last 9 years i'v been in the same bar

I wonder, if we were up to a full music job...wouldn't the passion somehow change, and the "spell" of music dissolve...and end up just with "another job" with deadlines and the like? For many of us, music is that kind of personal refuge, a place that is not contaminated with the many problems/worries/headaches that "normal" jobs have...not to mention "normal" life...It's a safe place, a playground, a space without rules nor boundaries where we can express.

What do you think?

I did work seven years as an IT consultant, being away from family the whole weeks etc. Could not continue that, so left and no job since last summer.
Sort of "floating in a tin can".
Trying to ackommodate to Per Boysen's shoe string economy
Working days and nights to get a poetry book ready to sent to publishers, though. Have done som proof reading this year for friends books and some pay.

// Major C

tomperson wrote:I wonder, if we were up to a full music job...wouldn't the passion somehow change, and the "spell" of music dissolve...and end up just with "another job" with deadlines and the like? For many of us, music is that kind of personal refuge, a place that is not contaminated with the many problems/worries/headaches that "normal" jobs have...not to mention "normal" life...It's a safe place, a playground, a space without rules nor boundaries where we can express.

What do you think?

Agreed! 100%

In my teens I was sure I'd work in advertising either as a photographer or AD. Went to a graphic design/advertising school and realized that the chances to ever get to do what I wanted were very small. Since then all things creative are my hobby. Preferably music and photography! Although spending those two years together with like minded creative people were increadibly stimulating.

Cheers,
Mikael