/fa/ - Fashion

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musician is obviously very effay, along with other creative jobs to varying extents

however i did the math and to survive COMFORTABLY in sydney, solely as a musician in a 3 piece band, you would need:
- spotify streams in the tens of millions/year
- digital album sales in the tens of thousands/year
- (maybe) vinyl sales in the hundreds/year
- merchandise and shirt sales in the hundreds/year
- weekly shows to crowds of 100+, or multiple shows per weekend

and that would still be scraping the bottom of the barrel, with a lot of downtime monday-thursday.

so i think the next best thing would be to live pretty well-off (hopefully in that sweet $60k+ bracket) with a low-mid income day job and work weekends as a PUP-level indie act. the day job would preferably be non-time intensive, have some decent time off/self-selected hours, allow for long hair/tats, etc

examples include some combination of––
LONG TERM:
- electrician or other trade, especially freelance or project-based
- psychologist/psychiatrist who always wears long sleeves (think robin williams good will hunting)
- recording engineer + bed and breakfast owner (highly unrealistic haha)
- childcare worker

SHORT TERM:
- private music teacher/tutor (i'm getting cert II in music for free, should be able to pair this with a driver's license to get decent work in 2018)
- drug dealer
- busker
- uber driver

i'm currently in my gap year and i need to weigh up some realistic options before heading back to school/training. opinions and suggestions, /fa/? i'm all ears

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