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Will · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2008, 02:09:53 PM »

Quote from: Johnny Mac

Why? Is it that students just keep lecturers in employment?
you also have to be realistic and learn something that is essential.

The idea that modern governments have installed in us... you can be whatever you want.
Which also keeps a lot of chavs in council houses because they all want to be pro footballers.

well thats my guess anyway

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2008, 02:14:35 PM »

Quote from: Will

Quote from: Johnny Mac
Why? Is it that students just keep lecturers in employment?
you also have to be realistic and learn something that is essential.

The idea that modern governments have installed in us... you can be whatever you want.
Which also keeps a lot of chavs in council houses because they all want to be pro footballers.

well thats my guess anyway

Good point :) Someone should also tell them they need to get up early and train and stay of the spliffs.

_tom_ · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2008, 02:21:43 PM »

The purpose of uni is to come and get pissed a lot and generally have fun :lol: Oh and you get a degree. I just hope mines going to be useful and wasnt a waste of money.

Antag · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2008, 02:42:02 PM »

36, married (3 years) with a 1 year old son. I have a good job with a good company that has employed me for the past 15 years.

FWIW, I've been very lucky in life. Left school with middling-average grades (7 GCSEs, 2 A-Levels), managed to get to Uni (a fourth-tier dump unworthy of the name :roll:) but hated it & dropped out after 1½ terms.

Got myself some rented digs, had a few mundane jobs, then managed to get my foot in the door of my current employer through a temping agency & kinda worked my way up the food chain from there. Had a few very hard years where I saveed almost every penny I earned & had hardly any nice things, but it paid off in the end - was able to buy my home for a steal when the property market was at its lowest ebb. I wouldn't class myself as rich, but I live comfortably, have hardly any debt & a smaller mortgage than most people my age...

Jonny · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2008, 02:47:47 PM »

I plan to do Business Management at Uni - so in the hypothetical future, I'd open my own retail shop. I don't see why you should study a course and then work in a corner shop. It's just following the other fishies but somehow you got "caught", if you can say, and the other kept moving without you.

I don't think I'll get into Uni though.. failing grades haunt me. :(

EDIT: A lot of you want to be in bands for covers and original stuff, why's that? Stupid question as you all play guitar and what not, but what makes you so determined that you want to get to that stage?

I don't see myself in a band because I generally lack the skill, lol..

_tom_ · « **Reply #20 on:** February 23, 2008, 03:20:25 PM »

I want to be in an original band because I hate playing by myself in my room all the time :P Also, programming drums is so dull, would rather be writing original stuff with a full band so I dont have to program everything :lol: I was in a cover band which was fun for a bit but so boring once the novelty wore off, the last few gigs I did I wasnt even enjoying myself.

Someone in my flat was doing business management but decided to drop out and join the police :?

Jonny · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2008, 03:48:20 PM »

Quote from: _tom_

Someone in my flat was doing business management but decided to drop out and join the police :?

lol.. that's not random at all.

Adam.M · « **Reply #22 on:** February 23, 2008, 04:07:22 PM »

I would've done well at school, shame i wasnt interested.

So now i'm 22, nearly 23. Was a music photographer for a short while and im starting to get back into it, but what Johnny Mac has said is very true, it's too easy to be good at this game. But the same thing count's for a lot of other industry's including music, where people would be happy enough to do it for free, thus people stop paying photographers and start expecting you to do it for free!

I've been told it takes 10 years to get anywhere in this industry, and i damned well belive it now. Seriously thinking about doing weddings instead...

I do feel though that i should go to uni, i've spent the last 3 years thinking of a degree which would actually be useful in the real world and that i'd actually be interested in.

So yeah, 22, unemployed and no idea what i want to do. fun ;)

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #23 on:** February 23, 2008, 04:25:31 PM »

Quote from: _tom_

Someone in my flat was doing business management but decided to drop out and join the police :?

PMSL!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #24 on:** February 23, 2008, 04:38:40 PM »

Quote from: Adam.M

I would've done well at school, shame i wasnt interested.

So now i'm 22, nearly 23. Was a music photographer for a short while and im starting to get back into it, but what Johnny Mac has said is very true, it's too easy to be good at this game. But the same thing count's for a lot of other industry's including music, where people would be happy enough to do it for free, thus people stop paying photographers and start expecting you to do it for free!

I've been told it takes 10 years to get anywhere in this industry, and i damned well belive it now. Seriously thinking about doing weddings instead...

Have you seen what happened to all the pic agencys? Most got bought out by Getty Images and they pay their smudgers peanuts now. The corporate machine, it's just bloody horrible really. I've just had a dispute over money that was owed to me from a regular event that I used to cover. I could feel the guys voice suggesting that I should be grateful that I'm chosen to do it and not invoice him for the agreed amount. So I'm not even going to bother any more, unless I get it up front or at least 50% of it. I even got an email from some bird who wanted pics on a DVD from a previous event. Obviously the new snapper. Bleeding cheek! I've done a few weddings and been paid for them but those brides mums are hormonal maniacs on their little girls big day and would rather just do an extra shift at work than put up with all that poxy clucking to be honest! :lol:

jt · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2008, 05:23:13 PM »

:D Not wishing to piss on anybodys parade here but: BROW, Johnny Mac and everyone else for that matter. Writing as a cover band mergant i`m shure 38th will back me up here. The tribute band stuff has been very over done and theres nowhere near the kind of money in it there used to be. You need to be very very convincing indeed and thats very difficult. You`ll also need some very dedicated fellow band members as well and believe me there very difficult to find. As for the material if i had a pound for every guitar player that thinks playing Bryan Adams Summer of 69 or G`n`R Sweet Child Of Mine etc i`d be a rich man. The problem is you cant go to obscure noone will get it and you cant go to cheesy as its been done to death. The list of numbers that falls into this catogary is quite large. Theres is allways room for a good covers band/duos,trios etc but be certain you can get an audience.

:D 8)

Crazy_Joe · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2008, 05:31:18 PM »

17, nearly 18 (can't wait!) Failed miserably (like Brow) in my AS levels because i didn't work hard enough, but now i'm in College doing a BTEC National Diploma in Popular Music (again like Brow lol!) and it's going much better. Hopefully after this course i will have developed in my playing (or at least in some musical area) enough to make a living in music, might go to Uni but i very much doubt it haha.

Jonny · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2008, 06:25:23 PM »

It seems to be that everyone would go to school, go to Uni, get a job and presto- a simple life faster than instant coffee.

But I don't know (still) if Uni is for me, let alone getting grades but I guess I need some points on both sides.

Why Uni?
Why not Uni? What's over the wall from education?

Plus I couldn't get to where I want to be without it, or is that a total farce?

Scotty477 · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2008, 07:03:07 PM »

My turn.

Let's see ... I'm 43, married, 2 daughters, 2 cars, 2 cats .... um too many 2's there :D

I left school at 18, joined the forces, left at 27 and went elsewhere to do a job that's been mentioned already in this thread.

I've played guitar since I was 11 and I've been playing live since 1995, without a break. I'm currently in a covers band doing weddings, parties etc but that will come to an end at the end of June and I'm taking a rest :D

As I get older I find myself playing more and more Blues. I figure at the present rate, in 2 years, I'll be the size of a house and playing a guitar called .. 'Lucille'.

I currently have 7 guitars (5 elec and 2 acoustic) which i really need to thin out a bit .... unless I see any more I like first

Johnny Mac · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2008, 07:03:09 PM »

Quote from: jt

:D Not wishing to piss on anybodys parade here but: BROW, Johnny Mac and everyone else for that matter. Writing as a cover band mergant i`m shure 38th will back me up here. The tribute band stuff has been very over done and theres nowhere near the kind of money in it there used to be. You need to be very very convincing indeed and thats very difficult. You`ll also need some very dedicated fellow band members as well and believe me there very difficult to find. As for the material if i had a pound for every guitar player that thinks playing Bryan Adams Summer of 69 or G`n`R Sweet Child Of Mine etc i`d be a rich man. The problem is you cant go to obscure noone will get it and you cant go to cheesy as its been done to death. The list of numbers that falls into this catogary is quite large. Theres is allways room for a good covers band/duos,trios etc but be certain you can get an audience.

:D 8)

Good point jt! I like watching bands with a quirky slant to them if I'm out and about.