$$$How do you guys make a living?$$$

cmgoodman1226 · Post by **cmgoodman1226** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:18 pm

wait tables. Not the most glamorous job but it's pretty damn lucrative.

hutyluty · Post by **hutyluty** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:37 pm

i'm just filling in time before i end up working in poundland to pay for my benefits

terminus · Post by **terminus** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:51 pm

im a wasteman, i dont even claim benefits

drake89 · Post by **drake89** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:12 pm

starting a gourmet/medicinal mushroom farm. haven't harvested anything yet but it's how I will be making money soon enough.

Cryoshok · Post by **Cryoshok** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:36 pm

I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\

hutyluty · Post by **hutyluty** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:38 pm

Cryoshok wrote:I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\

so you work like distributing vaccines and stuff?

vital work, well done you.

Cryoshok · Post by **Cryoshok** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:02 pm

hutyluty wrote:
Cryoshok wrote:I work a 9-5 in the field of public health. My day job requires very logical and structured thinking...hardest thing is getting home and shifting my brain into creative-mode to work on a tune :\
so you work like distributing vaccines and stuff?

vital work, well done you.

That is actually a big part of public health but my job specifically pertains to understanding and analyzing different disease trends within various populations with a focus on oncology. Then I go home and start up Fl Studio and cry.

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:25 pm

Cryoshok wrote:My job specifically pertains to understanding and analyzing different disease trends within various populations with a focus on oncology. Then I go home and start up Fl Studio and cry.

why not take your work home with you and load up images of the stuff you've been working on into Beepmap to kickstart some creativity???

yeolechap · Post by **yeolechap** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:16 am

I actually make music for a living , i work for a company called Blue House Collective , it's a pretty sweet gig.

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:44 am

I.T. FTW!

Working in I.T. is not the worst thing that could happen to you. The culture is usually WAY relaxed, even at some notoriously square businesses like financial services, etc. - plus, most people don't know the difference between a sequencer and a spreadsheet, so as long as they don't see pumping VU meters or you with permanent rockface overbite, they probably won't suspect that you're actually working on music most of the time. Win-win. Oh, and the money's usually very good, and they're often less stringent about college degrees and whatnot, as long as you're competent and learn reasonably quickly.

Case in point: my college major was Art/Crit. Theory (

), I didn't even get a B.A. in that, and yet I'm now a software engineer for a financial services house.

benjam · Post by **benjam** » Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:47 am

Bowling alley technician/ student

Undrig · Post by **Undrig** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:36 pm

I do tech support for a cable company. Lucky enough to be able to do it from home. Getting paid while I type this actually.

I have two kids, so I am happy to at least have a job where I have medical/dental insurance for my family. In all honesty everybody I know who makes a living on music barely scrape by and none of them have kids. Most semi successful people I know (musically speaking) who have non music jobs have to work part time too. Not many full time jobs will allow someone to skip town for a week to tour the opposite side of the country.

Nibzz · Post by **Nibzz** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:20 pm

I do security work at nights, come home, spend all the time I can on Ableton, then sleep, get up and go back to work. Repeat.

Before that I was unemployed for a fair while - luckily because I live in Britain that didn't hold back my production - because I still had a decent money coming in because my GF was unemployed too (decent pulled JSA/Dole) I could still produce when I had time (not looking for a job etc.).

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:51 pm

Outsource IT Technician.

shim · Post by **shim** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 1:25 am

i am an ice cream scooper AMA

RandoRando · Post by **RandoRando** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 8:30 am

im currently a restaurany cashier but hate that shit, im trying to get a job as a records clerk at my local hospital.

what should i ask them when i call to follow up on my application? I have a family friend that ive known for 10+ years that is good friends with the head honcho of the hospital, i hope that helps.

Brothulhu · Post by **Brothulhu** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 12:45 pm

RandoRando wrote: what should i ask them when i call to follow up on my application? I have a family friend that ive known for 10+ years that is good friends with the head honcho of the hospital, i hope that helps.

Ask if their is anything else they need from you regarding your application

IC0N · Post by **IC0N** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:33 pm

I clean airplanes from 9pm to 7am Fri-Sun. Pays good and is pretty easy but has screwed my sleeping schedule.

Besides that I give drum lessons every now and then and I do random recording projects with friends.

Littlefoot · Post by **Littlefoot** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 6:42 pm

I am a mastering engineer http://www.subsequentmastering.com/

caseydub · Post by **caseydub** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:43 pm

I am a security guard. I get disrespected for a living.

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