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koreasilver
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:51 Carthac wrote: You are not looking for advice, as I am sure you are not stupid. Sounds like you just want a little sympathy to me. Suck it up, budget your money wisely, and stop acting like you are in high school. Bingo | ||
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d3_crescentia
United States4054 Posts
normally I'd agree with you but some music performance majors have it rough; so I'd say 80% bullshit? I dunno | ||
Kau
Canada3500 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:48 Eiserne wrote: You can call bullshit on whatever you want but when you're in a performing ensemble 4 hours a day, class 6 hours a day, private practice 5 hours a day, lesson 10 hours a week, chamber music 20 hours a week, you can tell me how much time I have to get a job. Seriously, where do people get off assuming they know everything about someone's life? I shouldn't have even bothered asking anything of people on this website. Please close this/delete this asap. Performing ensemble - 4 hours/day Class - 6 hours/day Private Practice - 5 hours/day Lessons - 10 hours / week = ~1 hour/day Chamber music - 20 hours / week = ~3 hours/day Total = ~19 hours a day Now including time to eat, travel, talk/text on your expensive iphone, complain on teamliquid, and all those little things in life, I'd say you're getting less than 4 hours of sleep a day. I think you should slow things down a bit before considering getting a job. | ||
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:55 FragKrag wrote: Don't know how demanding a music major is, but I'm pretty sure you can work. Finding a job might be difficult, but if you are truly strapped for money working is never not an option. It's not that I'm strapped for money, which seems to be the major misunderstanding here. I always have -enough- money to last me month-to-month. That's all well. But I'd like to be able to spend less, put money aside, pay off my credit card bill faster, start saving money for important professional things like a new cello. People in this thread may think I'm net negative, which isn't true at all. I just want to eliminate from my spending, the more useless shit, like fast food and video game subscriptions. But I always make this valiant effort to do so... which lasts maybe a week or two. Then it's back to, this is so much easier/takes less time/seems cheaper, so I shouldn't worry about it. It's so easy to fall back into that bad habit. | ||
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:59 Kau wrote: Performing ensemble - 4 hours/day Class - 6 hours/day Private Practice - 5 hours/day Lessons - 10 hours / week = ~1 hour/day Chamber music - 20 hours / week = ~3 hours/day Total = ~19 hours a day Now including time to eat, travel, talk/text on your expensive iphone, complain on teamliquid, and all those little things in life, I'd say you're getting less than 4 hours of sleep a day. I think you should slow things down a bit before considering getting a job. The first thing to go in my schedule is obviously private practice time, which gets bumped to closer to 3 hours a day. But yeah. Usually 5-6 hours of sleep a day, which so far has done me well but I'm sure has long term problems. And lessons is actually 8 hours a week, 4 2 hour lessons per week. In any case. That's my major. | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:59 Eiserne wrote: It's not that I'm strapped for money, which seems to be the major misunderstanding here. I always have -enough- money to last me month-to-month. That's all well. But I'd like to be able to spend less, put money aside, pay off my credit card bill faster, start saving money for important professional things like a new cello. People in this thread may think I'm net negative, which isn't true at all. You're living mostly off of loans. LOANS. NOT YOUR MONEY. For god's sake you say that you want to save money for a new cello, which will rape your wallet up while also saying that you're not going to give up frivolous things like an iPhone? Are you even listening to yourself? | ||
IntoTheWow
is awesome32274 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:59 Kau wrote: Performing ensemble - 4 hours/day Class - 6 hours/day Private Practice - 5 hours/day Lessons - 10 hours / week = ~1 hour/day Chamber music - 20 hours / week = ~3 hours/day Total = ~19 hours a day Now including time to eat, travel, talk/text on your expensive iphone, complain on teamliquid, and all those little things in life, I'd say you're getting less than 4 hours of sleep a day. I think you should slow things down a bit before considering getting a job. When you play music fast, time bends. | ||
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32274 Posts
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:57 d3_crescentia wrote: use a budget and start teaching kids for cash normally I'd agree with you but some music performance majors have it rough; so I'd say 80% bullshit? I dunno I used to have two students. They showed up for two lessons each and never came back. That's in the last few months though. Before I moved here to Denton (transferred to UNT, one of the major music schools in the USA) I had several students. It was easier living there, financially, but I was also paying twice as much for school for half the quality of the education so it was a no-brainer on what I needed to do. | ||
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So no fek
United States3001 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:55 Eiserne wrote: why don't you offer advice to the question I proposed. Then I'll consider your advice. Until then please stop posting. I'm not going to ban you, in hopes that you might even have a real solution. That's what you're not understanding, man. There's no secret way of learning self control. It's either something you eventually learn, or you don't. Maybe you'll learn to stop spending money on all the fast food/WoW/etc. if your car dies and you don't have the money to repair it (and thus have to walk everywhere) because you spent all your money elsewhere. Short of that, there really isn't a magical way. Maybe you should cut off your internet, or if you need it for school (and don't have access to a library where you can do the necessities) uninstall WoW/whatever other programs you waste your time/money on. | ||
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 16:01 IntoTheWow wrote: Or you bullshit people on blogs, you pick one! i don't know what you do for a living, but it's easy for you to say that when you have no experience of it. Talk to the music performance majors you know, if you know any. When every job out there is a competition with the person next to you... when there are on average 6-8 university teaching job openings every year and 10-12 major symphony openings every year... and thousands of students graduating every year in cello performance... the competition demands the schedule. | ||
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BroOd
Austin10831 Posts
Stand tall, Eiserne. You may be a music major, but you have an iPhone now, and they can never take that away from you. (unless you stop using your student loans to pay the monthly bill, I guess then they can take it away from you) | ||
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ShadeR
Australia7535 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:46 Eiserne wrote: You're still not even thinking. You're not reading, you're not thinking, you're still posting the same basic crap you started posting when it's not what I asked at all. It'd be like if someone posted a blog saying, what's 2+2? and I went in and told them that it's spelled e-l-e-p-h-a-n-t. Totally irrelevant. They are not thinking? lulz | ||
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koreasilver
9109 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32274 Posts
On June 26 2010 16:03 Eiserne wrote: i don't know what you do for a living, but it's easy for you to say that when you have no experience of it. Talk to the music performance majors you know, if you know any. When every job out there is a competition with the person next to you... when there are on average 6-8 university teaching job openings every year and 10-12 major symphony openings every year... and thousands of students graduating every year in cello performance... the competition demands the schedule. So now it's a dick measuring contest? alrighty... *unzips* _YOUR_ turn now. | ||
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 16:03 BroOd wrote: TBH I think this thread is just full of Microsoft fanboys. What sane man WOULDN'T drop a few Benjamins on Apple's® latest pièce de résistance? I got an extra job doing medical testing at the local community college to afford one. Who cares if I'm bald and spermless when I'm 40? I have an iPhone now, and that makes it all ok. Stand tall, Eiserne. You may be a music major, but you have an iPhone now, and they can never take that away from you. (unless you stop using your student loans to pay the monthly bill, I guess then they can take it away from you) I laughed out loud in my chair. A work of art in text, haha. Well spoken. | ||
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Coca Cola Classic
266 Posts
MWF 8-12 classes. 2-6 lab class 6-10 work 12-2 study TR 9-12 study 12-5 work 5-8 freetime 8-12 study honestly, been there done that. also, i didn't think you were in the negative, just horrendous planning/management/reasoning skills. | ||
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Eiserne
United States340 Posts
On June 26 2010 16:04 IntoTheWow wrote: So now it's a dick measuring contest? alrighty... *unzips* _YOUR_ turn now. Uhm, it has nothing to do with any ego here. You're making it into an ego contest. I said nothing of the sort and wasn't trying to compare myself to you at all. I was just trying to explain to you why my schedule is so demanding. I can't comprehend your response at all. | ||
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Carthac
United States393 Posts
On June 26 2010 15:59 Eiserne wrote: People in this thread may think I'm net negative, which isn't true at all. I just want to eliminate from my spending, the more useless shit, like fast food and video game subscriptions. But I always make this valiant effort to do so... which lasts maybe a week or two. Then it's back to, this is so much easier/takes less time/seems cheaper, so I shouldn't worry about it. It's so easy to fall back into that bad habit. Once again, you know the answer. There is no special technique everyone uses or some special pill we take to have enough will power to not spend our money on frivolous things. You just need to control yourself, think as you are buying whether you can afford it or not given your financial situation, and ponder if there is any better way you can be spending that money. Honestly, you need to stop posting as well. You are most likely in a bad mood and trying to vent here on your blog. Whether you are or not, you are coming off as pretty childish | ||
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