I'm 30, currently live in USA, but due to my medical conditions, probably caused by Chernobyl disaster in 1986 in USSR, (vasovagal syncope, chronic fatigue, sleep apnea, extreme anxiety, unstable blood pressure )
I can't find suitable work and don't get any help from government or insurance.
So I'm trying to come up with some business that I can start by myself.
if anyone has any ideas please let me know. (I'm pretty good with computers and soldering).
1988 - 2012 - Professional Bass player (Mostly Corpo gigs)
1995 - 2012 - Freelance soundman ; I started that to help finance the other job.
2012 - now - Soundman/TD in a downtown theater , full time job.
Freelance soundman ; I started that to help finance the other job.
You know, I've heard of a whole bunch of different jobs that people worked in order to support their sound engineering job. (To make a living in the first place, but often also includes owning equipment).
But I think this is the first time I hear anyone working sound to support another job
You know, I've heard of a whole bunch of different jobs that people worked in order to support their sound engineering job. (To make a living in the first place, but often also includes owning equipment).
But I think this is the first time I hear anyone working sound to support another job
Yep
Making a living 100% out of music is a lot tougher than Sound IME but I must say that I was very lucky with my first soundman gig : I was well payed to learn in a small show place , lots of different style of music ..... learned a lot in those first years.
The Musician's experience I had helped a lot.
(Particularly for monitoring duties)
I used to work as a manager at a logistics company, but later I decided to learn web design. As everything comes with practice, I build websites by means of different wordpress car repair themes. This job allows me to earn money and be in charge of my time.
Sounds pretty cool and very satisfying.
Are you freelancing? If so, maybe your experience in that field could teach some people here valuable lessons about getting/keeping clients in the audio/music field.
Former corporate slave, now independent marketing consultant working with agencies and businesses to manage online advertising campaigns. My office desk is also my home studio so I can flip back and forth throughout the day!
Semi-retired professor, tech entrepreneur/ceo before. Started out as EE chip designer, moved to business side. Pretty serious classical pianist since age 4 but chickened out on the starving artist thing. Did a little tv/film scoring 25 ears ago and want to do it again with my son who is a recording industry student.
University Student (reading French and Spanish in the UK).
Free time - improving my production skills as I would ideally like to go full-time after my degree.
Disabled at the moment as a result of a violent accident me and fiance were involved in..
But most recent jobs to oldest:
-Per diem cook at retirement home
-expo at high end American grille
-cracker barrel lead
-forklift/cherry picker operator at warehouse that ships/receives hooker shoes from China
- Cook at sports bar
-wood splitter
-every position under management at several grocery stores
(I'll stop there.. I've had literally like.. 30 jobs.)
I see. Spent some years setting up and administrating HPC clusters for customers, in the x86 world.
Cool. I don’t set them up, more designing and writing the algorithms to run on them and use them efficiently. Lately, Spark mostly, plus various other things.
Is good fun if you ask me. One single dataset for us is bigger than would fit on the average computer, we have to process it quick sharp, reliably and correctly
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