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I play music in my free time of course. Jamming on weekends occasionally is much different than abandoning your day job and attempting to support yourself with

I play music in my free time of course. Jamming on weekends occasionally is much different than abandoning your day job and attempting to support yourself with music.

arn 16y ago
well, baby steps. I started a website during medical school, and it consumed much of my free time until I quit medicine. I didn't quit to start a website, but my website allowed me to quit. Maybe music/show business is different? Forgive my lack of familiarity with the terminology, but you can't form a band, book gigs, do weddings, etc...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong <- this guy was a physician while he developing his stand-up, and is now a sit-com actor.
- steveklabnik 16y ago
  Girl Talk was a biomedical engineering student until he basically dropped out for music. It's not different, he was catching red-eyes back from shows in order to make it to finals. You just have to want it badly enough.
  - maxawaytoolong 16y ago
    He has a biomedical engineering degree and actually worked a 9-5 day job as an analyst for a few years while playing gigs on weekends. http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franchises/quit-your-day-job/ http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franch...
    - steveklabnik 16y ago
      I stand slightly corrected, thank you.
muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Fun Fact: Kevin Smith was toiling away for years at the very convenience store in which he filmed Clerks. He used the stuck shutters at the beginning of the film as a plot device as well as to hide the fact that they had to shoot almost entirely at night while the actual store was closed. You can do both. You SHOULD do both. Something is obviously holding you back, and there's no way we can pretend what that is. I've found wives and SOs are really flexible if you lay it out that it's something you NEED to do.
- arn 16y ago
  Because Smith was working at Quick Stop during the day and shooting the film at night, he slept no more than an hour a day. By the end of the 21 day shoot, Smith was unable to stay awake while some of the most climactic scenes of the film were shot. from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks sleeping an hour a day... :)

I play music in my free time of course. Jamming on weekends occasionally is much different than abandoning your day job and attempting to support yourself with music.

arn 16y ago

well, baby steps. I started a website during medical school, and it consumed much of my free time until I quit medicine. I didn't quit to start a website, but my website allowed me to quit. Maybe music/show business is different? Forgive my lack of familiarity with the terminology, but you can't form a band, book gigs, do weddings, etc...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong <- this guy was a physician while he developing his stand-up, and is now a sit-com actor.

steveklabnik 16y ago
Girl Talk was a biomedical engineering student until he basically dropped out for music. It's not different, he was catching red-eyes back from shows in order to make it to finals. You just have to want it badly enough.
- maxawaytoolong 16y ago
  He has a biomedical engineering degree and actually worked a 9-5 day job as an analyst for a few years while playing gigs on weekends. http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franchises/quit-your-day-job/ http://stereogum.com/4530/quit_your_day_job_girl_talk/franch...
  - steveklabnik 16y ago
    I stand slightly corrected, thank you.

muhfuhkuh 16y ago

Fun Fact: Kevin Smith was toiling away for years at the very convenience store in which he filmed Clerks. He used the stuck shutters at the beginning of the film as a plot device as well as to hide the fact that they had to shoot almost entirely at night while the actual store was closed. You can do both. You SHOULD do both. Something is obviously holding you back, and there's no way we can pretend what that is. I've found wives and SOs are really flexible if you lay it out that it's something you NEED to do.

arn 16y ago
Because Smith was working at Quick Stop during the day and shooting the film at night, he slept no more than an hour a day. By the end of the 21 day shoot, Smith was unable to stay awake while some of the most climactic scenes of the film were shot. from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks sleeping an hour a day... :)