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Old 10-04-2012, 09:24 AM   #431 (permalink)
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Imagine yourself living your whole long life as a musician. You're having a great time with it and you're in a successful act and getting paid. You've done it so long, it's basically who you are.

Then someone says you were better back in the day and because of that, you should give it up. What do you do?
Better than being in a moderately successful band that makes enough to support themselves, but not enough to put money away for retirement. When you've been plugging away for ten years, not learning any marketable jobs skills or building a resume or going to college, and then all of a sudden your best years are behind you, what the **** do you do then? Go flip burgers so that your fans won't call you a sellout or washed up?
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