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Touring for your primary income is a brutal lifestyle, especially if you're not in your 20s and unattached to dependents. I don't think it's reasonable to say
by bpodgursky 11y ago
Touring for your primary income is a brutal lifestyle, especially if you're not in your 20s and unattached to dependents.
I don't think it's reasonable to say "oh, if you want to make money with music, you should just spend 6 months of the year living in a van traveling the country".
- mcbits 11y agoI don't see why that's unreasonable. Plenty of jobs in other industries (consulting, sales, construction, trucking...) have a large travel component to them. You don't have to accept work with 50% travel, but if that's where most of the money is for what you want to do, then it should be on the table. Even an author, typically far more introverted than a musician, has to seriously consider hitting the road to do book signings and interviews for any hope of success.