"Get paid for doing what you love" is a bourgeois fantasy. Sure you can probably make some pocket change selling knick-knacks on Etsy. But the concept that if you just work hard, you can turn your hobby into a career is a trick only works for the rich.
William S. Burroughs recieved an allowance from his parents while he wrote The Naked Lunch. "Follow your dreams" is nice. "Follow your dreams to financial stability" is like telling the mouse that there's delicious cheese in that mousetrap.
@ravenna Not sure who you think you're talking to but I've never made a hundred thousand dollars. If you don't like my toots please unfollow.
@ravenna Actually that's not true. I have made a hundred thousand dollars over a few years of working retail, and as working in schools. I've never made a cent on art. I've had to manage my money and time very tightly to even be able to make music at all.
@ravenna If you think that selling hundreds of thousands of albums and playing shows for tens of thousands of people is where the money is at, you're simply mistaken. Pressing albums costs money. The album covers costs even more. Marketing costs money. Microphones cost money. Show promoters and venue owners get the bulk of ticket sales. The musicians get the fun of playing and gas money and that's about it.
Hi, metal music podcaster here:
Sure, touring musicians have a rough go of it because touring is a drain on resources (and is usually how folks make most of their money) -
However -
Perhaps instead of saying how something can't be done you do something constructive to help change this?
Perhaps you buy an album, help promote the musician, and give space to let what you think is impossible fourish.
http://www.dorktower.com/2016/08/25/inspiration-go-dork-tower-25-08-16/
tl;dr: Help or kindly STFU.
@craigmaloney @ravenna I'm not going to do music promotion for you. If you can find space for your art to flourish, that's great. I'm not interested in helping you with your project.
@craigmaloney @ravenna I didn't contact you. You contacted me. Goodbye.
@rotatingskull @ravenna You threatened art. You brought me here.
This ends now.
@rotatingskull my dude, i make all of my album covers myself and i market by word of mouth but try again with your extreme lack of empathy and conservative bullshit
@ravenna If you can print and construct album covers alone that's an amazing skill. Best of luck. Goodbye.
@rotatingskull linux sysadmins are in demand baby
@privatepenguin Lol. Is that so because I am one and no one is asking.
@rotatingskull are there datacenters around you?
@privatepenguin Um, yup. I'm not really looking though.
Maybe the dreams you follow are not what you are paid for.
@rotatingskull "Work hard and be rich" made a lot of money for the guy who wrote the book, and it's been a useful propaganda piece to convince working slobs neoliberal economics is the only path to follow.
@rotatingskull my dude you made 100s of thousands of dollars and blew it, you need to fuck off with your disingenuous bullshit and subtooting lol