Originally Posted by Plankton

A very good friend of mine was the singer for a successful band, he'd wanted to be famous his whole life (had the ego to go with it too), and while I was in the service, he was out touring with Suicidal Tendancies. The band was going great, riding on their previous successes, when they made their final album. I was there when they all signed the record deal. They went in the studio, toured, and flopped. They now owe the record company 100's of thousands of dollars, the bass player OD'ed, and the band broke up. My good friend is now unemployed with no skills, living off of his wife as a stay home father. I'm telling you this as an example, sure there are other stories more tragic, as well as some with success, but in the end it's a very unstable way to travel through life.