music as a daytime job

[Evad]

which one of you can really make enough money with his music?
who has his musical projects as his daytime job?
or is it a hard time we're living in and do you need a 'real' daytime job to finance all your projects?

e.g.
running a label
dj'ing
producing
organising events/parties
etc...

i'm interested...

[thomasjaldemark]

which one of you can really make enough money with his music?
who has his musical projects as his daytime job?
or is it a hard time we're living in and do you need a 'real' daytime job to finance all your projects?

e.g.
running a label
dj'ing
producing
organising events/parties
etc...

i'm interested...

i would say, forget it if you wanna have a high standard of living. if you can manage to live of less and do lots of work, maybe..

anyway, think this topic has been up before

[patrick bateman]

which one of you can really make enough money with his music?
who has his musical projects as his daytime job?
or is it a hard time we're living in and do you need a 'real' daytime job to finance all your projects?

e.g.
running a label
dj'ing
producing
organising events/parties
etc...

i'm interested...

i would say, forget it if you wanna have a high standard of living. if you can manage to live of less and do lots of work, maybe..

anyway, think this topic has been up before

Agreed, you shouldn't do any of those things if you start off with thinking about if you can live from the income from those jobs.

[re.vise]

living from producing is very hard..only way to go is dj'ing & producing..making a bomb, getting more liveset/dj-bookings.. but though its hard to get a montly income

[Castronova]

I'm about to take a job choosing music for fashion events, stores, television commercials, etc... matching a company's image and target market with a particular sound. It should be enough to pay the bills and a bit more, but I doubt much more than that. I would consider that a "real" daytime job, although it's not very traditional.

While I'll just be a worker, you could get a pretty good amount of money if you started this company yourself though.

I previously worked for a magazine, writing reviews, interviewing artists, going to events, taking pictures. Same sort of deal as far as pay.

The downside in both of these jobs is that you sometimes have to become an expert in lots of music genres that fucking suck. There are lots of politics involved in magazines too, like often not being allowed to write bad things about musicians who are complete jokes.

[Michael^Heaven]

which one of you can really make enough money with his music?
who has his musical projects as his daytime job?
or is it a hard time we're living in and do you need a 'real' daytime job to finance all your projects?

running a brothel
dj'ing at a strip club
producing porn
organising gang bang events/parties

:twisted:

[dsat]

day job!
forget about making money from this
get a job, it will much easier :-)

unless you get lucky or you know how to work your way on the market and stay there

[dncn]

unless you are giggin all the time or get publishing for a major (which just isnt gonna happen for techno these days) then its generally not gonna happen, record sales of underground music wont support anyone.

only way to coin it is get somethin used on an advert or write some music for TV, or as some people do, childrens TV

either that or write some stuff that WILL interest majors, only if it just happens to though, and it comes from the soul, otherwise its just selling out i guess.