It appears you didn't seem to understand. You didn't answer his question. In fact you contradicted yourself. The first post if I must reiterate is that you ended saying you don't do paid gigs, but then ended with a however ... . This leads the reader to conclude the thought provocation of doing a paid gig yourself. But later in your second post state your own experiences. You never stated AT ALL that the student shouldn't get paid for gigs. I just explained this in the previous post. Please read my posts before responding. There was no elaboration about the topic of paid gigs versus volunteering. One or two sentences is not considered elaboration. You went on to discuss about how you went about conducting gigs (which is useful to the student, no sarcasm intended), but this is not the right thread. The student never asks about your experience only about whether what he had heard was true or not, which you never answered.

This is why so many people have stereotypes about musician...