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You really should find more time to make music, you are obviously missing it, you got a great rig to do it...

I'm guessing when your gf leaves, you're gonna spend more time on it.

At least you don't depend on it to earn a living, so you can focus in just having fun instead of feeling pressured to do the greatest song of all time.

Dave

When the girlfriend leaves you will find time.

I am the same as you. Have a very busy job that allows me to afford all the toys I want but have trouble finding time.

Also have a girlfriend.

I just spent 6 weeks working in Vancouver living in a hotel. I brought a set of genelec 8030 and an xstation and spent every night playing. It was great.

Girlfriend at home is not going anywhere but I am back off to Vancouver next week so I can expect to get another month of free evenings to play.

You just have to find the time.

After 20years in IT... I would happily give it up to go back to music full time. I prefer working with with creative idiots than souless corporate idiots that became managers because they ar too fucking useless to do anything else.

The only reason I dont is because my IT job is a guaranteed income to to handle the heap of bills that come in every month.

Oh dear dave, that sucks...
Personally, I couldn't do it. Life is too short! Plus looking at all that gear set up and not being able to use it would be torture.
I can see how easily you can fall into the "living to work" trap though.
Luckily for me, I was never very academic, and didn't study anything of worth in college (animation)....
I spent a few years floundering, before I decided that I wanted to make a living out of music. The only realistic way that I could see of doing it was to start a corporate/wedding band with my music making friends.
Now almost a year and a half later, and for the first time we are all starting to make a good living from it (after much hard work!), with a very busy summer of gigging coming along.
It gives us lots of time to concentrate on our own music, and we've all improved 100% as musicians having to play other peoples songs so much!
Im 27 with a wife and a 2 month old girl by the way.

just sample everything.