RE: income (was MySpace Controversy)

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

> 
> For this reason, Warren's statement seemed 
> rather...unbelievable to me, taking into account that Warren 
> is a professional musician and I am not.
> 

Yes, but I'm afraid, as I said, that I can't count myself as a professional
musician, tho' I wish I could (same reason as you and many others here - I
like to have a roof over my head and eat a meal once in a while). Some of 
my
skills are clearly pro level, but that's not the same thing as actually
making a living at it. I've had some excellent worldwide exposure for both
my music-related writing (in Guitar Player, Electronic Musician, etc.) and
software (SlowGold), but none of it has translated into much interest in my
music.

My current plan is to transition to training corporate programmers 2 weeks
each month. I've given up expecting income from music - my goal at this
point is to simply have 1 uninterrupted week each month to devote to
creative endeavors.

Warren