It's totally OT but I'm sooo fed up about my job. I would just want to live on the Alps in a hippie commune with my drummer and keep goats as a livestock and make delicious cheeses and play all day. Why can't we just live like that? 
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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
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You can! You just laid out your goals in that post. Now, sit down and plan out the steps to make that a reality.It's totally OT but I'm sooo fed up about my job. I would just want to live on the Alps in a hippie commune with my drummer and keep goats as a livestock and make delicious cheeses and play all day. Why can't we just live like that?
I have been unemployed (and poor) for such a long period of my life that I dread the idea to abandon the financial security, although little, I have finally reached. But I feel frustrated and out of place and my work days feel so pointless. An utter waste of time.
I admit as tough, draining, and insane of a schedule as my job is. I'm so thankful it's rewarding and I don't hate it. Downside though, I have little free time and like this weekend they got enough operators to run Sunday. So now I work Saturday and Sunday... Can't wait for the shifts to get adjusted. Then no matter how much they wanna run, each shift can only work 5 days a week!
Anyway, I've finally got a couple pickups to try for my 1st model. Now I just need time to put my prototype back together and rewire it to see which is best.
Anyway, I've finally got a couple pickups to try for my 1st model. Now I just need time to put my prototype back together and rewire it to see which is best.
I never said it would be easy to obtain your dreams
i work for myself doing construction/handyman work when i want to. I'm still broke but the only a-hole boss i really have to deal with is myself
frees up time to work on pedals/amps/guitars because that's what is ultimately love to do full time
frees up time to work on pedals/amps/guitars because that's what is ultimately love to do full time
My work schedule is not that heavy, but while I found it interesting at the beginnng, lately I'm feeling it only steals time to the stufd that really matters to me, and I'm not doing anything useful... Actually, I serve a system I despise (I work in the automotive industry) and find stupid and ridiculous.
My drummer has a much heavier work schedule, but he saves lives at least
He can go home tired, but proud of what he's doing. It gives you a totally different motivationMy work schedule is not that heavy, but while I found it interesting at the beginnng, lately I'm feeling it only steals time to the stufd that really matters to me, and I'm not doing anything useful... Actually, I serve a system I despise (I work in the automotive industry) and find stupid and ridiculous.
My drummer has a much heavier work schedule, but he saves lives at least
My grandfather taught me, at a young age, that work is the thing that we must do in order to enable us to do the things that we want to do.
So, my motivations/ rewards for working:
- The ability (money) to feed, house and provide myself and my family with the things that we need in life
- The ability (money) to provide the opportunities to obtain / do the things that we enjoy in life
That's what keeps me going. More amps for the band
Anyways, I find this system/lifestyle MONSTROUS and just sooo wrong.
I’m in the social work field. Specifically elementary and middle school kids. I don’t hate my job, but I’m working on my MBA so I can move out of this field or at least move out of mental health. Lots of my friends say my job is rewarding, but they couldn’t do what I do. I don’t put much on that being true, but I’ll tell you I don’t get paid enough for what I see and hear from these kids and their families. I guess all in all I’m just doing my part to help kiddos, hopefully, end the cycle of violence, poverty, abuse, etc.... for the next generation. So, rewarding? Maybe, but that doesn’t really matter as long as I can make a difference. Even if I don’t ever see it. At least my wife has a good job. Nobody goes in to social work for the money. Lol
Rewarding as a human being, and not feeling you're spending 8 hours every day in something stupid to produce "goods" we don't really need. Like me.
8 hours every day is the f.ing majority of the time we are NOT asleep.
My drummer is a nurse, he is a shift worker, he works on nights too. But I envy him.
Jobs are the big thing we have to do in order to do what we love and to support those who we love. Sometimes i feel like we can get lucky and we find ourselves in fields and careers that we love and that have MAJOR impact on the lives of others or even our whole species. I work in aerospace and I'm pretty lucky some major programs that I've worked on have these massive impacts on the world. GPS is one of the big ones and I love that I've been apart of space science missions that further our species understanding of us, our solar system and the universe.
Those of y'all who can do all the social work, first response, anything that deals with people or society at large... wow. my hat is off to y'all, its so awesome.
I also recorded some crappy pedal demos this morning, I might put em up later if I feel like embarrassing myself with my terrible playing.
Those of y'all who can do all the social work, first response, anything that deals with people or society at large... wow. my hat is off to y'all, its so awesome.
I also recorded some crappy pedal demos this morning, I might put em up later if I feel like embarrassing myself with my terrible playing.
So you can help me with my dream of seeding life onto other planets?
Edit: I just realized that "seeding" might have some connotations I didn't intend. Rest assured, I don't mean it that way.
Scientific research, social work or making delicious cheese is what would make life worth living!
It is def rewarding in its own special way.
Anyways... While I'm awesome at my job and great and building -ish, here's stuff I can't do well.
For your viewing displeasure, here is a video of my terrible musicianship and some cool sounding distortion.
This is mostly the muff, sometimes into my pre-amp, other times bypassed. I also the muff into an X, into the pre-amp, also ran a green rhino into the muff and green rhino into the X. I also run the bass passive and active.
I didn't do a great job of recording settings or what was going on where, but i'm going to try to do that later.
One of the things i've noticed is the muff tends to play better when the bass preamp was bypassed and in passive mode, with the pickup set to single coil instead of series.
This was about all I could get done before the distraction of my partner and the kid being at home and in the same room got to be too much.
Props to anyone who can make it through all 13 minutes of me screwing around on a bass.
For your viewing displeasure, here is a video of my terrible musicianship and some cool sounding distortion.
This is mostly the muff, sometimes into my pre-amp, other times bypassed. I also the muff into an X, into the pre-amp, also ran a green rhino into the muff and green rhino into the X. I also run the bass passive and active.
I didn't do a great job of recording settings or what was going on where, but i'm going to try to do that later.
One of the things i've noticed is the muff tends to play better when the bass preamp was bypassed and in passive mode, with the pickup set to single coil instead of series.
This was about all I could get done before the distraction of my partner and the kid being at home and in the same room got to be too much.
Props to anyone who can make it through all 13 minutes of me screwing around on a bass.
I skipped around a bit, but I liked the tone at ~10:08 best. Though ~12:23 is also badass.
What bass is that?
I'm kinda bummed about some of those high frequency artifacts in there, but on well. I'm not expecting anything good for being half awake and just recording it on my phone.
10:08 was clean into the pre-amp
12:23 was the X into the pre-amp
Ibanez GWB35 with SS rounds in Drop A. It has a bart pup/preamp as well. Its friggen awesome. I just wish my musicianship was up to the potential of it, haha.
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