The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119171   Message #2582682
Posted By: John P
06-Mar-09 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: How do you survive the day job?
Subject: RE: How do you survive the day job?
I work for a company that builds musical instruments. It makes it barely tolerably to not play music all day.

I'm not cut out to be a full-time folk musician. I tried, but I don't like going on tour, I don't like teaching lessons, and I got very tired of playing a weddings several years ago. So now I play one or two gigs a month, doing music that I don't have to worry about being commercially viable.

My biggest problem is that there are levels of skill I know I could get to but I don't have enough practice time for.