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How many of you guys have a full time job? Posted on: 30.11.2011 by Jenni Philippsen Hey Guys, I was just wondering how many of you's have full time jobs, and how do you maintain time for both your full time job, and Djing? Just curious, because I finally got called back into work. I am an apprentice electrician, but unfortunately way up here in the north, winter time hits hard, and pretty much kills construction, so I get laid off on winters. I start Monday, and a normal week is 50+ hours. This will be the first year, Djing, and not to sure how it is going to work out. Weekends and maybe an hour or two each day if I am lucky. Just curious. So post up! | |
| Erich Vallabhaneni 15.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by VanGogo
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| Joie Cantillon 04.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Ando
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| Ashley Bernhoft 04.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by bigheadmikelove
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| Jenni Philippsen 03.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Dj_4-$hure
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| Reed Kempisty 28.12.2011 | i play music for drunks |
| Breanne Penge 28.12.2011 | I work a full time job as a programmer. I get every second Friday off (flex schedule) which is nice having lots of long weekends. I usually cycle in and out of work (15 km each way). I get out DJing a couple times a month, more so in the summer. Evenings and most weekends I am practicing at home, (scratching / mixing / digging for tunes), and producing tracks. |
| Brinda Tidrick 28.12.2011 | Yup. Manage a bar. Pretty full on, especially this time of year. Still, it's all good fun for the most part |
| Valentin Doong 19.12.2011 | I'm 20 years old and work 2 jobs. I'm an Audio Technician at both of my jobs. Having two jobs keeps me somewhat busy throughout most of the week. I take off days from my job when I have to do weekday gigs, like on Wensday evening
or Tuesday evening
. I usually always have a gig on Friday or Saturday, so Sunday is my day too just chill and relax. I don't really have much else too spend my money on besides rent, car, and djing. I come home and i usually just want too smoke and play a couple tracks or practice for the next event i have coming up. I also build my set lists on the downtime at some of my jobs. I also do a decent job of promoting my events around town, not just digitally. So that takes a little bit of time too, but having a crew makes it a lot easier!! So yeah, Im pretty tired by Sunday lol. |
| Audrey Pinda 19.12.2011 | I work full time. Set schedule is 40 hours a week, Tuesday-Saturday. Which leaves me Sunday/Monday off, which I honestly really like. I work as a vendor for the commissary in corrections. Though, I like to keep myself busy. I had a second job (Sat/Sun second shift) for awhile, and then was able to go back to school. I currently keep 9 credit hours (3 classes) in the evenings on top of working full time. I generally go out every Wednesday evening , Sunday evening , and about 2 times a month on Sunday evening s (for weekly events). I then use Friday/Saturday to go out to the bigger shows. As a musical consumer, not a DJ, though it has inspired me. Life is busy, but I like it like that. When I don't have anything going on, I go crazy. The only thing I wish I had more time for is going to the gym. |
| Althea Pichoff 19.12.2011 | i average between 40-60 hrs a week as a web developer. i make sure to get in the studio at least twice during the week and at least one evening under headphones working in ableton. weekends i spend a lot more time in the studio depending on what i have to do. some weekends i'm in there for most of it. the day job does have some serious impact to my mood though at times, but it pays well enough that i'll take the days that i just want to crash in front of the boob tube for what it affords me. i am fortunate though. my dogs come in the studio with me and my wife has no issues with me spending hours in there. in fact she encourages it since its my creative outlet and it makes me happy. |
| Loreta Tessay 17.12.2011 | I have 50+ hours a week for my job and The big secret for that is time management |
| Janyce Henningson 16.12.2011 | Rent boy |
| Odis Stirewalt 16.12.2011 | < fulltime job IT Sysadmin / mo - fr from 07:00 to 16:00 the rest of all my time, energy and money flows directly into Psychedelic Trance Music. (DJ + Producer) And i wished to have more time for my passion but then i would have not enough money so this is all i can get ;o) |
| Josefina Schutten 16.12.2011 | Mon to Friday wake up at 6.30 train at 7.20 to university in Milan to start lessons at 8.30 5-6 hours of lesson (engineering) at day, sometimes with laboratory also 7-8 hours finish at 4.30 at Milan and go back to home for 17.30-18.00 from tuesday to sunday going to work at 19.00 till 21.30 in order to earn some money for djing at home at 22.00 eat a sandwich, go bed and repeat P.S. (ah sometimes i can found time for my girlfriend and for some dj-set) |
| Laure Derocha 16.12.2011 | Just a dirty plumber / steam fitter here! |
| Erich Vallabhaneni 15.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by VanGogo
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| Hipolito Koncz 15.12.2011 | Hmm let's see where do I start 1. Mon - Fri High school culinary instructor 2. On call catering and starting own personal chef business (will be incorporating the music scene into it, "Making music with food" is my slogan.) 3. On the leadership team for my singles group 4. Getting ready to become a board member of a local cultural youth prevention organization 5. Sound and light engineer at church 6. Most importantly I have a special needs daughter who lives on her own but needs assistance 7. Ahh and Oh yes working on becoming a proficient DJ with the time I have left Hmm what was the question again? Oh well hope I answered it. |
| Ninfa Larranaga 04.12.2011 | right hurr |
| Joie Cantillon 04.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Ando
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| Ashley Bernhoft 04.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by bigheadmikelove
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| Joie Cantillon 04.12.2011 | I run an oilfield construction company. I work a crap ton of hours... I try to practice or record a mix at least one or two times a week. Really I spend more time on Beatport looking for music than any sort of mixing, but I have a good time with the most expensive hobby ever |
| Jenni Philippsen 03.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Dj_4-$hure
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| Belle Tufnell 03.12.2011 | I work in the construction biz. Currently metal stud framing (30 ft walls) but I work in other trades also like, Tile,drywall,painting,and some electrician work. I dj as a hobby (passion). I have three kids 6,5,and 6 month old. Right now i wake up around 4 or 5 am, and don't get home until, 4 or 5 pm. So after I spend time with the fam, I put my headphones on and go to work on my turntables, if i'm not dead beat by the end of the evening , and if I am, I still manage to spin (I'm riding this mo-fo ti'll the wheels fall off!) Hopefully hard work will pay off, and if it doesn't I'm ok with that too, as long as I enjoy what I do. |
| Emely Metz 01.12.2011 | I have a 2 weeks on/off schedule every month. Really good if i'm about to do freelance job during my week off. but i choose to stay at home & basically doing nothing...djing & music is a hobby for quite some time already. never have the intention to play out at all, since i play genres that people wont listen to, or probably hated anyway. it's getting hard to mix 'loudly' nowadays since the opportunity of being alone in the house is getting lesser...have to be considerate for my cousin who worked odd shifts so that she could get some sleep, and there are kids too apart from that, i spent more time playing online games & chat rather than actually playing all my musical gears. but that does not stop me from buying more gears LOL. :P |
| Bob Padia 01.12.2011 | I'm a consultant for an exhibit company full time. I also own a graphics business on the side. Then comes DJ'ing after that. Not to mention my other stupid hobbies like video games, working on Supra motors, and general maintenance around my house. |
| Jenni Philippsen 01.12.2011 | Woah seems like allot of us have a plate full! Nice to see people still having time to Dj and enjoy they're hobby! I actually just got called back to work on Monday so I will see how it goes. Usually work 6am-5pm Unfortunately though most jobs we get pushed so we land up working retarded hours, I remember working on a government building, working 3am-8pm for 2 weeks.. Ha not fun, And being a construction and maintenance electrician, kills you, all the ladders, lifts, heavy lifting, wire pulling, countless numbers of injuries and cuts on your hand,! My hand,s turn into sandpaper pretty much! |
| Tillie Sliman 01.12.2011 | I've got a 7:30-4:00 M-F job as an aerospace designer. I do a couple bar gigs a month in a small town where I used to live and have a lot of connections and get paid for those, but breaking into the club scene in a larger city is almost impossible for someone that has to be up at 6am every day. I did pretty well when I was unemployed and will be quitting my job to go back to school in the new year so hopefully that will enable me to get back up in the scene a little more. The other problem is image, I'm a pretty clean cut guy and all the well known DJ's in Portland are filthy looking hipsters. It's gonna be a challenge to convince booking peeps who don't know me to put me on stage even though I can mix as well or better than the regulars and I'm a helluva lot more professional. |
| Teresia Janusch 01.12.2011 | im a broadcast engineer, dj every fri evening too and the odd saturday guest spot around the country |
| Teodoro Woolever 01.12.2011 | I trade bonds for an investment firm, so my hours are pretty set. 7AM - 4PM. I typically just do weekend gigs. I have a 3 evening s a month at a club and also do 1-2 evening s at a sushi bar as well as picking up a mobile gig here and there. All of which are Fri/Sat and some Sun. |
| Queen Sichel 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Liambo
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| Kristofer Krauel 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Liambo
I'm a full time financial adviser by day!! But I also work 2 miles from home and DJing for me is now more of a hobbie. Although I have just this second found out that I may have secured my first gig for 8 years at a city centre bar in January!! Without actually looking for one!! |
| Julianna Riecken 01.12.2011 | I work Monday to Friday and practice in the evenings if I can be bothered, I work as an Apple technician for service provider so it's a pretty cushty number, I've got some gigs on friday evening s at the minute, there was a time when I had this job and had gigs, thursday, friday and saturday, damn the recession! |
| Leeanna Ayla 01.12.2011 | I'm a photojournalist with a lot of hurry up and wait time which explains my silly post count. I post and dig for music with my iPhone quite a bit. If NI ever came out with an iphone app that would let me grid and set loops and cues I would need nothing else. |
| May Artman 01.12.2011 | If you've got a job with a set schedule its easy enough to schedule gigs around that. I can imagine it would be a pain for someone that works odd flex hours though. |
| Palma Hanslip 01.12.2011 | I work a 40 hour week standard but that rarely happens as i have at least 20 hours overtime every week.. I have seen myself with over 100 hours overtime in a month and not a single day off in that month. But i DJ every Friday and every second Saturday unless i'm away working. Doesn't really effect me as my gig is 2 miles from my home and my work is 3 miles. Oh and i'm on call 24 hours a day 7 days a week. |
| Jenni Philippsen 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by VanGogo
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| Charline Dye 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Zaniac
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| Charline Dye 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by Kayzee;
Been doing it 11yrs I did away with Sup Air field last year as tournament players have almost disappeared the last 3 years. Still have a hyperball field for some speedball. Also have a 2 woods fields and a trench field. Since the economy tanked and the oil spill on top of that it has been very hard to make a living at it. Still do lots of parties and private groups, but there are fewer players with their own gear who play walkon. It is also seasonal which makes it even more difficult. But I do love what I do (even though I don't play anymore). Probably going to get a regular job in the summer (when it's slow here because of the heat) and still run the field on the weekends. And this isn't a duplicate of the other thread so no worries. Thought you might have missed the other one. |
| Deeann Cheron 01.12.2011 | I also work a full time office Job a despatch manager for a scaffold company, so although my hours are down as 7am till 4.30 its more often the case that a day can range anywhere from 5am when my phone starts, till 6pm as shit often goes pear shaped in the afternoon and I have to re-organise the following day. The joys of being in charge of 40-50 scaffolders and 4 trucks drivers and & yard staff. Most of the time I feel like a councillor as people like to bitch and moan lol. I'm also Married and Have a dog at Home (no kids yet, having fun trying) so by the time I get home walk the dog, spend some time with the wife there is not much time left to indulge in music and half the time I am to tired by the time I load up for a jam. long story short, DJing is more of a hobby for me and I'm not really pursuing any evening club gigs (mainly due to above) although not ruling it out one day. Still waiting to win the lotteries then life will be different For now I am happy playing private parties and the odd Wedding whilst building my music collection |
| Jenni Philippsen 01.12.2011 |
Originally Posted by VanGogo
Hmm yeah that must suck using headphones all the time, I also imagine it would be rough on the ears to! Sounds like you have a plate full holy! Paintball field where at?! I used to be real big into paintball, played CXBL in canada. Do you only run woodsball or do you also have speedball fields? My close friend owns a field here where I live/ small town. Tough business to profit from. |
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