Why Most Musicians You Actually Like Still Have a Day JOB. 🎸

okay.....

so this convo stuck with me for weeks. someone brought up how their fav guitarist from a metal band still had a regular job between tours and my brain just kinda broke a little

like growing up I genuinely thought if you were good enough and people actually knew your music you were set. turns out that's just... not true for like 90% of musicians even ones with real fans and real albums out

Apparently a lot of them are quietly working cruise ships, doing wedding gigs if they play piano or strings, some are literally washing dishes between tour dates. no one puts that in their bio obviously but it's way more common than i thought

and streaming was supposed to fix all this and honestly just made it worse. merch and live shows are basically carrying the whole thing now, and even that only works if you're not getting screwed over by venues taking half your cut before you even see it

Kinda changed how i think about the whole thing. making music and actually surviving off music turned into two completely different jobs and you need to be decent at both or you're back to a day job no matter how good your stuff actually is

anyone else notice this with artists they look up to?

Like people you assumed were "made it" musicians who are still grinding a normal job on the side...

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