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Yep. To get one real fan, other than your mom and your girlfriend is super hard. I worked as a professional music producer and dj for 10 years in a good niche,
by boredemployee 4y ago
Yep. To get one real fan, other than your mom and your girlfriend is super hard. I worked as a professional music producer and dj for 10 years in a good niche, paid my bills and raised my kid for that long, and while many other djs and producers played my music productions/compositions and threated me as one of the best in my country, my career never took off. Today I do it as a hobby in my free time and no one really seemed to care that I stop doing it lol so maybe I never had a single REAL fan.
- ttjjtt 4y agocan you see yourself making and releasing music again at some point?
- boredemployee 4y agoMore like a hobby yes. If you ask me if I would try to make a living out of it again, then I'm not sure (probably not). The feeling of not making a single cent for a few months in the beginning of the pandemic was a bit traumatic.
- paulpauper 4y agoWelcome to survivorship bias. For every person who succeeds there are many who fail but you never hear about them.
- boredemployee 4y agoAnd yet I was miles ahead many other struggling artists and musicians that couldn't make a cent out of their craft. I was shrinking but what really forced me to stop and start to learn a programming language was the pandemics (that's how I learned about HN btw).
- justhw 4y agoWhat genre if you don't mind? I'm curious if we can hear your mix.
- boredemployee 4y agomostly house and deep house (influenced by chicago and detroit artists)
- RHSman2 4y agoI hope you have the time to write about this in more depth.
- boredemployee 4y agoI will! :)