Today’s negative temperatures were too much for me to want to work on my house out back. It was cold yesterday too, but I made a Gumbo and my hands stayed busy. I’m enjoying the fruits of that labor right now as a matter of fact. It’ll be perfect tomorrow.
Most of my day today was spent looking for studio work with my handy-dandy new and improved resume. I sent it out to a bunch of studios in Denver with the hope that someone is hiring. Honestly, I have no idea how to go about getting paid to do what I do with music. It’s been this way my whole adult life. I always thought that I’d be a famous and filthy rich rock star by now and have been following that dream pretty diligently my whole life. Now, I’m pretty sure I’ll never be able to retire in the traditional sense. Teddi’s gonna need scholarships. Sorry kid.
The “What Now” title of this blog is more of a request for help. I really would like some assistance in making money for all the stuff I do with music: Playing, writing, recording, listening, teaching… I worked hard to get my degree, but what now? Who do I talk to that will see what little is left of the spark in my eyes for this dream of getting paid for my art? Where do I go so that I can waltz through the fields of modern musicianship? I don’t want or mean to sound full of myself, but I’m pretty good at the things that I do. If nothing else, I really love to do the things that I do and I’ve spent way more than ten thousand hours on all of it, so mathematically I should be a Jedi Master or a Sith Lord or even a cool looking wizard in the realm of Joe stuff. I would most likely be a Sith Lord, let’s just be real.
On a positive note, I have a lot of stuff coming up with the bands I play with. It’s all in the calendar and that’s about to get way more full since I agreed to a sub position in another cover band. I’ll let you know when I’m allowed to announce that band. Anyway, I should be at least making some decent bread in the next few months with live shows. So that’s good.
I’m gonna keep this blog post short and just do what I really came here to do. So here it goes:
-If anyone who reads this has all of the answers to all of my questions, I am all ears. If not, I hope you had a good time reading.
Thanks,
-Joe
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