I would need at least two tiny houses next to each other.....one dedicated as a work space/studio. Still a great deal less expensive than a full size home....but still
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Use volontary constraints. Minimal set ups.
....etc.
Sparks creativity and new ways of thinking.
I'm the kind of person that gets option paralysis easily.
But live in any place that makes you happy. Remember its not where you are its who your with.
My 2 cents.
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That's a FACT. I've finally come to realize that I can do what I do from anywhere in the world. I have a network of incredible artists that I know all over the world. I've been pretty anxious the past months trying to decide where to go next (stay put, back to NYC, Berlin, someplace new?). The truth is that I don't have to even think about that. I just have to do the work...to keep working on art. What I do need to consider is how to always keep my expenses low so that I can spend the most time creating art, and less time working for other people. That's the one thing on my mind. I had begun to think tiny house because it would be wonderful to pay for an affordable home that is always mine, and has very little maintenance. Anyway....no idea what will happen yet, but just bouncing ideas around in my head. End of the day, it's the art that we make and the people that we surround ourselves with. Period.
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Affordable is key. Work at it buddy, keep it up.
Debt and credit are the worst things ever. Drown in debt, spend a lifetime working to pay it off. What a wasted lifetime.
My 2 cents.
The only debt that I have is from going back to school. I have no money to pay that back, but I would love to 100%. Just have to keep working and hope for a break at some point.
School in the USA in crazy expensive.
But I wont get too deep into this but I’ll just say.... “Free education for all humans on this flying rock we ride on!!!!”
Except me, I wont ever EVER give any more bass lessons under a 1$ a minute.
no kidding. One school I looked at (25 years ago) was going to be about $25k a year. Assuming a student needed loans, that’s $100k for a degree which isn’t fun but wouldn’t be impossible to pay down with a good job. I recently found out the same school was over $80k a year. I can’t imagine walking out of school with $320k in debt to start paying. Add a $500k house (here in LA) and a couple of kids and a used BMW and that’s a lifetime of debt to manage. Add a pandemic and boom. You go from Foderas to a string and a stick on a washtub pretty quickly.
my $50 co-pay vasectomy totally paid for itself, and provided the time to play with the toys i can afford. YMMV
a lot of smart stuff and a lot of funny stuff.
If I were ever to go the "tiny house" route I'd probably get a Winnebago or similar and just ramble.
changing that to "voluntary RESTRAINTS" adds a whole different dimension . . .
If I were ever to go the "tiny house" route I'd probably get a divorce.
that’s pretty insane... the way aus politics is trying to mimic USA I don’t think we will be too far behind that sort of stuff. We are lucky in that they got rid of a lot of dodgy providers though - I did a diploma of IT that was originally 10k... halfway through the course they got shut down as the course was actually meant to cost 3k! New provider only recognised some of the units so had to pretty much start from scratch.. still came out ahead compared to the original provider though...
I’m happy to keep studying short courses and bits but don’t think I’d ever get to a bachelor that costs 40k or more to pay back...
that’s pretty insane... the way aus politics is trying to mimic USA I don’t think we will be too far behind that sort of stuff. We are lucky in that they got rid of a lot of dodgy providers though - I did a diploma of IT that was originally 10k... halfway through the course they got shut down as the course was actually meant to cost 3k! New provider only recognised some of the units so had to pretty much start from scratch.. still came out ahead compared to the original provider though...
I’m happy to keep studying short courses and bits but don’t think I’d ever get to a bachelor that costs 40k or more to pay back...
Let's do some overly simplified math.
Let's say, based in part on my anecdotal commentary, the four year degree cost I mentioned was ~$80,000 USD in 2000. Googling college salary data for 2000 is a tad tricky, so let's use the $42k average US salary in 2000 (from US Census). That means the degree was about 2 years of your salary. ZipRecruiter says CA pays about $55k for a Bachelor Degree job, which means about 6 years of salary for the $320k degree cost I mentioned. Obviously, there are tons of variables I'm ignoring, but that looks much worse to me.
Still, it is looking things like this that pushed me toward getting a degree and a desk job over pursuing music as a profession. It seemed more manageable in 2000 to get a degree which would allow me to have a more comfortable career path and continue enjoying music as a hobby. Now, I'm not sure what I'd do if I had to put myself back in that decision position. I used to hope that I'd be able to get a job at a place like Gibson or Fender (or any other bigger music company) on the corporate side of things. That landscape looks totally different now. Back in my college years I hated accounting classes and real estate, but I've spent most of my life doing financial analysis for a real estate company
... I guess it makes just as much sense that I started off as a metal-head and have ended up chasing synths and ambient sounds
One of the things I love about teaching university here is that tuition is low. People don’t have to go into debt for an education. Everywhere I’d been before that (all in the US), starting with my own undergrad, tuition kept going up, and I was a public school kid all the way.
Between the rising cost of education and the rising cost of housing many places (rent or own), it’s completely oppressive.
The ideal is to live below your means, but that’s really hard for most people.
Between the rising cost of education and the rising cost of housing many places (rent or own), it’s completely oppressive.
The ideal is to live below your means, but that’s really hard for most people.
I wasn't even able to finish school. Too expensive. I mean...where's the ceiling, man?!?!? What a disaster that so many people in the US can't afford to go to school. I believe in this country less every day. Completely backwards country in so many ways.
