Really, this is the post I think I was trying to write when I started the last one. I wanted to start off by basically saying, “Music is not my profession, but it’s also not a hobby.” And then, typically, I went off on a tangent and got all earnest and probably over-intellectualized and pedantic, among other annoying things. And I really don’t want to go that way with this post again and start pitching spiritual-sounding woo about how what …
Month: August 2018
Music is not a profession for me. There’s nothing wrong when it is someone’s profession, but it’s not how I, myself, make my living. And I’m actually quite glad about that. A profession implies that the trade is something you do for work, and work implies that commerce is, if not your only motivation, a significant one. I’m hardly a mercenary, but the work I do for my profession—which I happen to like—is still based mostly on being paid. If …