Another career is wise to fund a music career, but that's just the problem... With another career, music only has space to be a hobby, and not being able to wor

Another career is wise to fund a music career, but that's just the problem... With another career, music only has space to be a hobby, and not being able to work on music as a career ends up ultimately being the very thing preventing growth and success. An engineering career, with school and all other aspects involved also doesn't really accommodate moonlighting as a really creative musician with a 40+ hour work week and dress standards that don't really allow for different hairstyles, managing social media accounts, band practice etc... It would be very interesting to see a survey of how many actual dedicated musicians succeed, but I'm already pretty sure it's less than 10%, and for those who work day jobs, I'm pretty sure the percentage is even less. I work in IT, and every single job I get is like walking away further from any hope of music success. I took the past year off IT work (very fortunate to have been able to do that) just to work on my music, but even now, getting my music to people's ears on the Internet is a massive hump to overcome, and it costs a lot of money. Artists like Prince and The Weekend have backstories of being literally homeless before being discovered. These days, especially during the pandemic, the idea of homelessness is far more deadly, and those guys and many more from the past would likely never even succeed, which is very grim. The monopolistic route to success being through gatekeepers and big industry is really even more toxic and harmful to our future than ever, but in reality it may be the only possible way to become a full time musician. I'm happy making music that I like, but it's not a hobby for me, it takes significant effort, expense, and time to make and promote it... So when I work my also very demanding day job to pay bills (which also takes significant time, effort, certifications etc...) there is no reasonable way to fit in social media, studio time, networking with musicians, interviews, touring etc. Citing all that, I can't simultaneously work a modern day job and physically, or even in essence, also be a professional musician with all the modern hurdles of maintaining another entirely different career.