I work at the guitar shop while studying electrical engineering; I figured I could build my own house and design my studio with the big money and also learn interesting stuff about electricity that translate into music and gears like hertz stuff, analog gears and like design my guitar pedals and amps and that kind of stuff. Oh I had my share of peanut butter, have nothing to eat, play in various bands, believed utopias like living because of my music. But still, I play in a death metal band and we're guys with other jobs like one is gonna be teacher in like politics or something, one dude is boss for a construction company, another works at shows doing the sound for the artists and another one is about to become some kind of "metal" engineer (while being a metal head with long hair, it wasn't metal enough he went study minerals). We gonna play in a 2-days "brutal" metal fest in a few weeks and we have no idea if we'll get paid more than simply "free beers"... but like, that's why we do it, right ? For the fun and the people head-banging I guess, not so much for the big income. I know a lot of great and well known bands that don't rely on their music to eat but rather take their vacations according to their Tours and have a real job the rest of the year, they just don't tell you in interviews and stuff (and interviewers never ask lol). And I know that with a little bit of courage and perseverance in school wil get you a lot more money than what you would do even in a successful band. I wish I had realized much earlier that in order to get alllll the stuff you need you need a good job and a lot of money. Because you do need a lot of money if you want to have a real studio of your own. Sorry for the roman.