Funny the way society values things, eh? I recall about 4 or 5 years ago, reading in a cycling magazine that the average professional bike racer in the US makes $7000US per year. No wonder they need day jobs!
Many years ago, when I was a student, I worked at Canada's largest music store in Montreal. Other than me, virtually every employee was a musican "between gigs" - although the gap between gigs seemed to often stretch into years <g>. I know bike couriers in Toronto right now who are musicians, writers, dancer/choreographers, visual artists (for lack of a better term <g>), video artists, photographers, and the list goes on. It seems that society doesn't put much value in "the arts", and other than those fortunate few who have "made it", most toil evenings and weekends, hoping for "that big break" (which most often never happens). Or, they just do it for the love of what they're doing, in the knowledge that they'll never be able to make a living at it. It's kind of sad... regards, frank "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." wrote: It's a lot like the "real musicians have day jobs" bumper stickers > I've seen. (Come to think of it, one of those recently appeared > on the bumper of the car belonging to the leader of The Homespun > Ceilidh Band (he's a lawyer).) > > I don't expect photography to make me rich, but it'd be really > cool if it could someday pay for itself. (I'm not counting on > it.) > > -- Glenn -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
