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« on: October 11, 2007, 07:46:38 PM »
I for the life of me can't find a job where I can safely say this is my calling this is a job that will keep me happy for as long as I need to work. Right now I'm teaching english part time and slowly working towards my masters. That wasn't even easy, I went through a lot of crap in highschool and my grades suffered A LOT so getting into college was a real bitch. I'm not sure if I will always want to teach, now looking at them from the other side of the classroom, teachers have it rough. I'm resigned to my fate of making a moderate living. I can't splurge on anything expensive, my car will always be slightly old, my apartment vastly underfurnished. Money doesn't make people happy, it distracts them from their problems.
The ideal donation method would be for working class fans to donate as much as they could. And the better off donate more. But the mentality of both are the same but different. "I don't have the damn money I'll donate $0" and then on the other side of the spectrum "You mean I don't have to pay if I don't want to" Rich people blow money on stupid things, expensive restraunts solid gold (Insert useless item) but for something like music this is one thing I can see them being cheap about. If Musicans start getting underpaid, they might have to get another job, and when that happens they can't focus on their "job" or passion and then that suffers. Songwriters are a niche market but they can have semi-steady work, a lot of bands "not usually good ones" don't write or compose their own songs. Music needs to be easier to get online, it's too easy to download an album for free and what's the repruccusion? You have no hard copy. That seems irrelevant now everyone has a damn iPod or iPhone. Musicans are infinitely better off then I will ever be, but they deserve to get paid for the work they did.