What are you doing for a living besides techno?

[Ritzi Lee]

The McCormack topic let's me think.


I want to know what everybody over here think about the argument "living and earning money from the music for your living".

Myself, I think this is just a unique group of people who can really live out of their musical activities.

For myself.
i'm just graduated from my Math studying.
And after that i would eventually take an offer in the employment market...
Music will always be a passion. To play / DJ and to produce.
And the money you would earn would be just for fun,
because it would never compete with the serious money.....


So i'd like to know, and I hope eveyone can make there point,
that us techno lovers are doing more then just sitting in their studio and make music all day long..... Where you're living from? That's the question actually.....

[slavestudios]

i had been signing on & putting out literally millions of posters for other clubs in belfast & makin a few £££ from dj gigs (between £20 & £60 about 3 times a month til i pretty much quit) but it all pretty much went in to the deficit from 'perpetual' and any money i did have spare went into kit..


but now i'm doing an HND in suome media shit that lookin good for job in the BBC (if i dont **** it up) in radio...

[xfive]

Engineer at a managed hosting company... we run a Tier 1 data center. :shock:
My tasks include system administration of many Linux machines... some Windows machines.... some spiffy Mac Xserves... and I do programming when needed. Waaahooooo :eh:


All I want are windows god dammit.

[massplanck]

Server Engineer with an Evil Multinational corporation.

Quitting in August though for the good life.

[xfive]

Engineer at a managed hosting company... we run a Tier 1 data center. :shock:
My tasks include system administration of many Linux machines... some Windows machines.... some spiffy Mac Xserves... and I do programming when needed. Waaahooooo :eh:


All I want are windows god dammit.


The kind of windows I can see DAYLIGHT with that is.

Not Microshaft

[slavestudios]

Engineer at a managed hosting company... we run a Tier 1 data center. :shock:
My tasks include system administration of many Linux machines... some Windows machines.... some spiffy Mac Xserves... and I do programming when needed. Waaahooooo :eh:


All I want are windows god dammit.


The kind of windows I can see DAYLIGHT with that is.

Not Microshaft



:lol:

i know the feelin.. we're in a classroom with no windows.. 'orrible

[SlavikSvensk]

researcher on southeast asia for a non-profit.

kind of like graduate school, but easier, and the day ends at 5pm...

...plus it lets me travel...heading to indonesia for 2 months in late july...woohoo!

[TheRev]

Team Assistant in the Marketing / Events department of a major Accounting Firm.

I do boring data entry type work. I don't plan on being here much longer though.

I can't stand this cubicle life.

[stjohn]

studgin Multimedia
have my own micky mouse webdesign co with a mate
work in ebay partime

absolutely broke!

[Rog]

civil eng spanking "our tax money!" (in england)

looking into a tefl course to chip, to sunny places/happy faces! :cool:

[jimmy west]

builder who cant afford to buy a house which is ****in me off so i rent an apartment and all the rest is just techno

[gunjack]

i teach english and japanese to kids sometimes for spare cash. kids of friends and at schools and stuff. used to be hardcore into it <-------- that avatar is a pic of me in my suit and tie, on the train to teach business english in tokyo :rambo:


i want to find me a good job though. at least 30k a year. C.I., copy write, marketing in general seems like a breeze after all the travel. :twisted:

[audioinjection]

sell crack

[xfive]

sell crack

That last batch was terrible mang.... find a new supplier.

[alsynthe]

i work in accounts for a big toy company

[Stella Boy]

i work in accounts for a big toy company

is it a mickey mouse company :oops:

[Buttman]

Scuba instructor. It pays little though since I live in chilly Sweden!

[The Divide]

I work for the NHS part time (23 hours) doing catering whilst doing a hons degree in creative sound and music technology. Before then I was a full time mechanical engineer

Hoping to get a job working in electronics after uni full time, or (but this is a bit ambitious) get a job synchronising sound for TV, maybe teaching music tech perhaps. Or could I could just go back into engineering. Either way it wont be much diff to the current situation doing uni and part time work only I will have more dollar and I wont be a student asshole.

[The Divide]

Scuba instructor

btw that sounds awesome!

[audioinjection]

sell crack

That last batch was terrible mang.... find a new supplier.

pay me some more money, and you get the good shit :twisted:

[conflict]

started my own company last year installing digital cctv and security systems

very time/money consuming, but hey i'm my own boss

great topic by the way!

stroll on

[massplanck]

I work for the NHS part time (23 hours) doing catering whilst doing a hons degree in creative sound and music technology. Before then I was a full time mechanical engineer

Hoping to get a job working in electronics after uni full time, or (but this is a bit ambitious) get a job synchronising sound for TV, maybe teaching music tech perhaps. Or could I could just go back into engineering. Either way it wont be much diff to the current situation doing uni and part time work only I will have more dollar and I wont be a student asshole.

You are a Goat Herder. Own up.

[Frank Dogshit]

i work in healthcare recruitment,recruiting physios,occupational therapists and the likes.

its been something ive wanted to get into for a while as im into the whole developing business aspect of it and meeting lots of different people from across the world.

[AcidTrash]

As of next week I'm Systems and Technology Developer for a Major Bank.

[holotropik]

Used to be in engineering until I got sick of working for the corporate machine, but now I just drive forklifts in a warehouse a few days a week, live on the coast and go to the beach a lot :)

Do music stuff mostly but I admit its not for the money....esp here in Australia....hehehehe. I just do it for the lifestyle and the missions to extraordinary places with nice peeps to meet and get funky with.

[The Overfiend]

I sniff Scarface amounts of Yay.

[dirty_bass]

I`m doing freelance HR consulting (although mostly for a very large multinational corporation :evil: )

[SlavikSvensk]

Used to be in engineering until I got sick of working for the corporate machine, but now I just drive forklifts in a warehouse a few days a week, live on the coast and go to the beach a lot :)


sounds nice, man!

[xfive]

I sniff Scarface amounts of Yay.

Your name is Tony after all...

[Craig McW]

Graphic Designer/Finished Artist for Cornwell design in Melbourne. Award winning Studio.

Farken love this job. Time consuming, but rewarding. Pays well too.

[TechMouse]

Software Engineer

[RDR]

Music Technology and DJ lecturer.

[acidsaturation]

Student advice worker and part time sociology student.

[serox]

Director of my own IT consultants firm working in the City in London at the moment. Would like to move into property area soon if possible though. Music making and playing is for fun only.

[AcidTrash]

Student advice worker and part time sociology student.

...and full time hippie

[acidsaturation]

Better hippie than geek :wicked:

[FuK-NuT]

Architectural Technican...

[gunjack]

male gigolo, sell hip hop beats, professional pot smoker sponsored by OCB. :rambo:

[sash]

Painter & Decorator. Got a degree in Visual Arts so lookin at movin onto high school art teacher. Design tattoo's. Also just started a mobile dj business.....

[Mindful]

I make industrial lifting equipent and am a part time fanny master(pussy not ass)

[tekara]

Working in Hong Kong in the logistics and cargo business....

but packing up my stuff and moving back to Toronto to start my own clothing line.

techno and music production is only for fun, although i must admit it must be really cool to be able to do it for a living, but as of now, it seems like cubase sx is only a passionate hobby, such as the rest of my hobbies like doing graffitti and consuming obscene amounts of my time in reading useless novels like "5 people you meet in heaven" (that novel sucked by the way....)

[The Germ]

i use to work at 2 record distributos for about 6 years we went out of buisness i got unemployment that ran out now im a bum.... selling vinyl to make ends meat.....

I should start selling other things... :nono:

[rotten]

car manufactor for a big german automobile concern. after work just music, music, music,...

[dirty_bass]

Man, working a serious full on job and trying to keep up in the studio is shite. You just don`t get the time to truly explore.
I wanna be a bum again.

[lau]

LOL I suck...

I study tax law... almost finished.... in about 4 weeks I'm gonna be Master Lau !! than off for some serious travelling...

Aw and I work for a Factoring company but that varies from 4 hours a week to 40 hours a week.. depends if they need me and if I feel like going...

[Ginjin]

I work as a Financial bounty hunter.

Meaning......I hunt people down and make them pay.

[gunjack]

Man, working a serious full on job and trying to keep up in the studio is shite. You just don`t get the time to truly explore.
I wanna be a bum again.

do something about it.

[DJ WMD]

COMMUNITY PSYCHEDELIC NURSE

[slavestudios]

my god..


bunch of corporate suckers :lol:





was i the only real techno dude on the ground here ? gettin lifted for postering & 'keeping it real' ????



well, i'm on me way to eating a mouthful of BBC wang now, but i was hardcore :rambo: lol

[RDR]

Hardcore is an outlook not something you become











































:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Barely Human]

I am automotive paint distributer, (or glorified delivery driver), and i also run my own hosting and design company, (altough i dont make much off that).

[TripleX]

I study mechanical engineering, which will still take ages to finish :roll:

[slavestudios]

Hardcore is an outlook not something you become











































:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



:lol: GOOD MAN :clap:

[dirty_bass]

Man, working a serious full on job and trying to keep up in the studio is shite. You just don`t get the time to truly explore.
I wanna be a bum again.

do something about it.
Rob a bank?

[djshiva]

by day (well, i work at night actually) i work for an environmental lobby group (non profit).

by night, i make beats. :)

[DJ Becka]

For my day job, I work for the NFL Network scheduling commercials.....YAY!

[The Overfiend]

For my day job, I work for the NFL Network scheduling commercials.....YAY!
YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME THAT BEFORE I LEFT!
I CAN IMAGINE ALL THE FREE SHIT YOU GET!
I MEAN DAMMIT COULDNT YOU TYPECASTE ME AS A FOOTBALL FAN!!

[SlavikSvensk]

For my day job, I work for the NFL Network scheduling commercials.....YAY!

f*** yeah...

[SlavikSvensk]

For my day job, I work for the NFL Network scheduling commercials.....YAY!
YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME THAT BEFORE I LEFT!
I CAN IMAGINE ALL THE FREE SHIT YOU GET!
I MEAN DAMMIT COULDNT YOU TYPECASTE ME AS A FOOTBALL FAN!!

not i jets fan, i hope... ;)

[SlavikSvensk]

that should read "not a jets fan, i hope..." ;)

[The Overfiend]

The Eagles, and the Mofuggin' Jets!
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/edwards1.jpg

[BloodStar]

i don§t have a regular job, now.. i quit doing Test leader in a localization company befioreone year.. that job was killing me every day, because i was spending let"s say 10hours before comps , doing the job which would be paid lets's say twice or 3times more in your country, than here...,. i was totally pissed of of it.. anyway,my english is much better now,,which is i'm very satisfied with,now...

It was like 10hours at work and then when i came home and wanted to do some music,,my eyes were totally bad with it, and i was out of ideas. it was too much to me,,and i couldn§t do the thing i love,., so i quit and hooked on music for almost all last year,..

now i can do whatever what brings some cash,, but i'm not singed anywhere,so some days i'm full time smokers sponsored,,by Smoking,. (even OCB are good,,too) LOL,., other day i do the music all the day,or week or month,.,who cares,..

i hope i will not end as a total zero,,at the end of the day..

[professor]

Lawyer, dad, and husband.
all three are jobs, and require a delicate balancing. I schedule at least wednesday evening/night and saturday to write/play music. every other time I get to play with my noise makers is icing.

[SlavikSvensk]

The Eagles, and the Mofuggin' Jets!


why does herm look so despondent? cuz my boys keep winning...

http://img72.photobucket.com/albums/v218/danthepatsfan/pat_patriot.jpg

http://images.nfl.com/photos/img8128619.jpg

(i grew up 10 min from foxboro)

[audioinjection]

raider nation beotches :lol:

[dirty_bass]

American football?
That`s just a bunch of models in body armour playing rugby isn`t it?
:lol:

[oldbugger]

American football?
That`s just a bunch of models in body armour playing rugby isn`t it?
:lol:

sort of, but its not even as good as rugby. :lol:

[massplanck]

I prefer to call it 'american soccer' myself.

The foot hardly touched the ball.

[SlavikSvensk]

American football?
That`s just a bunch of models in body armour playing rugby isn`t it?
:lol:

hahaha...spoken like someone who doesn't know the game ;)

it derives from rugby but is vastly different. the violence derives more from impact of 250lb dudes ramming into each other full speed than pulling people down...broken bones instead of bloody ears...

if the playaz had no pads, they'd all be dead or brain damaged by the 3rd week.

[massplanck]

How often on average does the foot actually touch the ball in this 'football' you speak of? And why is the real football (the one where foot is kicking the ball the whole time) called... er..uh. "Soccer" in the states.



Could never figure that one out.


I

[SlavikSvensk]

How often on average does the foot actually touch the ball in this 'football' you speak of? And why is the real football (the one where foot is kicking the ball the whole time) called... er..uh. "Soccer" in the states.



Could never figure that one out.


I

the ball touches the foot maybe 10-20 times a game. punts, extra points, and field goals. all related to rugby...probably in the 19th century people punted more often, so that's prob where the name came from...

if you come stateside we'll watch a game...though i have to warn, it's really complicated...it takes a lifetime to master all the nuances...

...the word soccer, i believe, derives from the term "association football" a long time ago...it stuck here for some reason

[The Overfiend]

raider nation beotches :lol:
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/_photos/2003-01-15-inside-fan.jpg
http://mediajunkie.com/jeffgreen/spleen/raider%20fan.JPG
Yeah there is something really wrong in the mindframe of a raider fan!

[davethedrummer]

american football????


hahahahahahahaha.......

now i know you're kidding right???

[The Overfiend]

The Eagles, and the Mofuggin' Jets!


why does herm look so despondent? cuz my boys keep winning...

http://img72.photobucket.com/albums/v218/danthepatsfan/pat_patriot.jpg

http://images.nfl.com/photos/img8128619.jpg

(i grew up 10 min from foxboro)
I hate the Patriots and the Sox

[SlavikSvensk]

it's a good time to be a new england native... :)

i gotta enjoy it while it lasts...

[The Overfiend]

american football????


hahahahahahahaha.......

now i know you're kidding right???
http://gayjourney.com/flags_gay/soccer.gif
http://www.writersgallery.com/bj/Fark/GaySoccer.jpg

[SlavikSvensk]

american football????


hahahahahahahaha.......

now i know you're kidding right???

hey...regular football is also a favorite of mine...used to be hard to keep up with but now we get premiership matches weekly...

but with am football and baseball, you have to grow up with it, like rugby and cricket...

[The Overfiend]

no offense to our same sex attracted friends out there either. :oops:

[audioinjection]

what is it with you euros hating american sports

[SlavikSvensk]

what is it with you euros hating american sports

they don't get them.

kind of like us and cricket.

[conflict]

american football sucks

[dirty_bass]

Any sport where a bunch of men, who`s heads contain grey matter that is the product of millieniae of evolution, essentially play around with a bag of pressurised air, seems a little primitive to me.
It`s all just veiled tribal warfare anyway.
Why not just have a big fight in a field and stop all this nonsense with balls and goals and shit.

[g]

the balls and goals make it easier to have logically placed commercial breaks.

[dan the acid man]

American football?
That`s just a bunch of models in body armour playing rugby isn`t it?
:lol:

too true, would rather watch a game of rugby league, and being as you americans insist on calling our football soccer, im calling your american football american soccer, or maybe i'll call it american kiss chase :lol:

*dan hopes sos doesnt find out where i live*

[SlavikSvensk]

the word "soccer" is british...comes from "association football"

not sure why it was picked up here and not really anywhere else...

[dan the acid man]

what is it with you euros hating american sports

they don't get them.

kind of like us and cricket.


love watching basketball, just wasnt any good at it because i was too small (they should bring a version out for smaller people).
as for baseball, well thats just rounders played by men wearing what looks like tights.

the only american sport i truly love though is your ama supercross and outdoor national series

[SlavikSvensk]

Why not just have a big fight in a field .

a classic viking sport...

[dirty_bass]

Why not just have a big fight in a field .

a classic viking sport...

hehe, I am actually of viking descent.

[SlavikSvensk]

hehe, I am actually of viking descent.

as am i, hence the "svensk..." ;)

i can't remember if it's orkneys or shetlands, but in one they still play this viking game where the town is divided into two teams, and one tries to put this rock in the sea, and the other in the center of town, and it's just a giant free-for-all rumble...

[The Overfiend]

As featured on Espn 8
The Ocho !!
http://www.all-shall-fade.net/dodgeball/skins/5/layout01.jpg

[audioinjection]

:lol:

[yeswehavetheright]

I'm coming to an operating theatre near you soon.....be affraid!

[Ritzi Lee]

Incredible how a subject can turn into something else. :shock:

[DJ Becka]

Woah....I go away for a few days and come back to see what other people do for a living and this winds up turning into a thread about football? :lol:

I'll be straight up honest.....just because I work there, doesnt mean I actually LOVE the sport. I mean-it's OK....but I am not a diehard fan like some of the other guys that work there and the only time I actually watch it is for the Superbowl. To me, its just another traffic job at another network.....but yea, working there has its perks....football tickets, football stuff, etc.....

Oh, and btw.....any of you american peeps on here who have direct tv can get the network, and we just added a new program a few weeks ago- 'Dolphins Cheerleaders'. So if you are interested in lots of T&A and can tune in, you should check out this show ;)

[Will]

Wait just one minute! Surely the only sport that can be referred to as football on this site is what you americans call 'soccer', ie proper football! I watched some of the last superbowl and it was the most boring sport I've ever seen and even with the game divided into quarters they went to adverts in between, every 2 minutes or something...

It barely qualifies as a sport in my book, nevermind one that can assume the name of the greatest sport in the world...

[audioinjection]

its the same way most americans view soccer, its boring, we don't think its a sport and not many people care for it here

[gunjack]

I'm coming to an operating theatre near you soon.....be affraid!

you again?!

[SlavikSvensk]

Wait just one minute! Surely the only sport that can be referred to as football on this site is what you americans call 'soccer', ie proper football! I watched some of the last superbowl and it was the most boring sport I've ever seen and even with the game divided into quarters they went to adverts in between, every 2 minutes or something...

It barely qualifies as a sport in my book, nevermind one that can assume the name of the greatest sport in the world...

spoken like someone who doesn't even understand 1% of the game ;)

[stjohn]

ive played all them and have to say...

basketball hands down!!!
enough scoring to keep everyone happy....


3's n dunks to keep the boring soccer heads happy who are used to negative action....

boards n blocks to keep the nfl heads happy....

butwhatdafukdoesanyofthismatteranyways

GO SPURS! (not tottenham)

[Zektor]

ive played all them and have to say...

basketball hands down!!!
enough scoring to keep everyone happy....


3's n dunks to keep the boring soccer heads happy who are used to negative action....

boards n blocks to keep the nfl heads happy....

butwhatdafukdoesanyofthismatteranyways

GO SPURS! (not tottenham)

basketball has always been my # 1...!!

[audioinjection]

hockey is where its at :twisted:

[The Overfiend]

Woah....I go away for a few days and come back to see what other people do for a living and this winds up turning into a thread about football? :lol:

I'll be straight up honest.....just because I work there, doesnt mean I actually LOVE the sport. I mean-it's OK....but I am not a diehard fan like some of the other guys that work there and the only time I actually watch it is for the Superbowl. To me, its just another traffic job at another network.....but yea, working there has its perks....football tickets, football stuff, etc.....

Oh, and btw.....any of you american peeps on here who have direct tv can get the network, and we just added a new program a few weeks ago- 'Dolphins Cheerleaders'. So if you are interested in lots of T&A and can tune in, you should check out this show ;)

arrrrrrrghh free shit becka!!!!!!!!!! me!!!! arrrrrgghhh

[Will]

its the same way most americans view soccer, its boring, we don't think its a sport and not many people care for it here

At least you get 45 mins of uninterupted action with football, with american football it's like an infomercial, seemed to be as much adverts as 'action', way too commercial and it took them ages to score. I dread to think what it used to be like when it was more defensive... It seemed to stop everytime a tackle went in, no flow at all.

No-one can say football's not a sport, and there's loads more ways to score than any other sport, and the fact it tends not to be very high scoring means a game can be turned on its head in a few minutes, which couldn't happen in other sports where it's high scoring, it'd take too long to even the score, nevermind take the lead. I think proper footballs popularity says it all!

[Ritzi Lee]

Woah....I go away for a few days and come back to see what other people do for a living and this winds up turning into a thread about football? :lol:

I'll be straight up honest.....just because I work there, doesnt mean I actually LOVE the sport. I mean-it's OK....but I am not a diehard fan like some of the other guys that work there and the only time I actually watch it is for the Superbowl. To me, its just another traffic job at another network.....but yea, working there has its perks....football tickets, football stuff, etc.....

Oh, and btw.....any of you american peeps on here who have direct tv can get the network, and we just added a new program a few weeks ago- 'Dolphins Cheerleaders'. So if you are interested in lots of T&A and can tune in, you should check out this show ;)

arrrrrrrghh free shit becka!!!!!!!!!! me!!!! arrrrrgghhh


:lol:


I'm just interested in the chearleader.
Can you arrange me a date Becka? :love:

[SlavikSvensk]

its the same way most americans view soccer, its boring, we don't think its a sport and not many people care for it here

At least you get 45 mins of uninterupted action with football, with american football it's like an infomercial, seemed to be as much adverts as 'action', way too commercial and it took them ages to score. I dread to think what it used to be like when it was more defensive... It seemed to stop everytime a tackle went in, no flow at all.

No-one can say football's not a sport, and there's loads more ways to score than any other sport, and the fact it tends not to be very high scoring means a game can be turned on its head in a few minutes, which couldn't happen in other sports where it's high scoring, it'd take too long to even the score, nevermind take the lead. I think proper footballs popularity says it all!

a: i love football
b: i love american football
c: i'm half-swedish/half-american
d: i grew up with both
e: someone who did not grow up with either isn't likely to appreciate what makes either of these sports dynamic, unique, and interesting

[audioinjection]

so what does everyone else do for a living besides techno :lol:

[xfive]

so what does everyone else do for a living besides techno :lol:

Swashbuckling on the open seas.













ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ME MATEY
:rambo:

[massplanck]

so what does everyone else do for a living besides techno :lol:

I dj trance and hardhouse.

[SlavikSvensk]

i eat large quantities of fish, and even attack the occassional great white shark with me podmates...

[audioinjection]

:lol: :lol:

[GothamGrooves.com]

Was a broker for a logistics company, got treated like an uber "wanker" I am now starting up my own import company. If anyone has any connections to products pm me ;)

[GothamGrooves.com]

so what does everyone else do for a living besides techno :lol:

Swashbuckling on the open seas.

Is that what drowning in pusssy is called now adays? Swashbuckling? hahahahahaha













ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ME MATEY
:rambo:

[xfive]

so what does everyone else do for a living besides techno :lol:

Swashbuckling on the open seas.

Is that what drowning in pusssy is called now adays? Swashbuckling? hahahahahaha



hahaha

you know how I do :lol: :lol: :rambo:

[snooch]

I manage a bar and restaurant in Dallas Texas.

[conflict]

we're a right affluent bunch here arent we!

here is my business site whilst we're at it

;)

http://www.securesolutions.org.uk/

[Ritzi Lee]

we're a right affluent bunch here arent we!

here is my business site whilst we're at it

;)

http://www.securesolutions.org.uk/

Maybe you can secure my recordbag with 1500 Volts. :twisted:

[dirty_bass]

All this hard work is doing my head in.
I may take up goat herding.