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I DJ for the love of the music, first. Money, second. Need money to buy great music on vinyl.

if u do it for the money ur probably stupid, late hours, weekends traveling. u get better paid in other jobs if u where going to sacrefice so much of your private life.

Yeah, but what if music IS your life?? If you are lucky enough to make a living, as a DJ, you are living the life. You don't mind the late hours and weekends traveling....

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Originally posted by Stormbringer Yeah, but what if music IS your life?? If you are lucky enough to make a living, as a DJ, you are living the life. You don't mind the late hours and weekends traveling....

but ur family and friends might (if u still have)...
it is not a luxurious job people, if u live for music i think producing and live performance is more atractive. more money (not sellign cds but concerts), better and bigger venues, rarely more than two hours performance and alot more interesting places and times + you dont have to do it all the time, u do it with a new album tour or something lol im dreaming hahahha

For the love of music!!!

i'm in college...so for the money lol

but once i get a job it'll be for the music i promise!

im playing my first set in BC on the 29 of nov. from mtl to BC

If i had all the gear i wanted and i didn't have to put up with BS (yeah right no BS... ) I would do it for next to nothing. I would like to break even at the end of the night. When I have to put up with shit, i think of the money and that keeps me thinking positive. If i were to choose one. I would say music though... If you don't have a love for music, you don't have loads of fun, and the motivation to be a good DJ is not there... why DJ. Do something else...

when i dj out in clubs, i usually dj for the fun of it. I mean, i have promoters asking me to dj an hour for fifty bucks (the price of a taxi is 25 to go to and from). So clearly is not a monetary thing. Thats not to say I don't accept high paying gigs, I get $200 an hour (plus equipment rental) from some of my clients.

Ultimately though, there is a great sense of accomplishment when you are making everyone in the club/house party, have a great time because of your djing.

<3 > $

i'm throwing my 4th house party this friday and i'm going to pay for some booze, glowsticks, but each one of the previous 3 parties was labeled "the best party ever" and guess what, i had such a blast DJing, seeing the people dance, scream, go nuts...

i was affiliated with a dj 'club' at my uni, helped them gather people and promote events... what started out to be a 'community of electronic music lovers and djs with no self-promotion' turned out to be exactly what they said they weren't - self-promotion and about money. they're now throwing their parties at a local club (i did a gig there and the atmosphere just wasn't right) with sponsorship and whatnot... i have a bad taste about the whole thing, maybe because they didn't ask me to dj after the first 2 events, maybe because they're doing gigs and i'm not, but it just seems they're selling out and the first two events were fishy (envelopes were passed, entrance fee was charged at a house party where no booze was sold and i never saw any of it but i think the other organizer did)

i'm doing it because music makes me happy and because it can make other people happy. although making some money off of it wouldn't hurt (tracks and equipment aren't free after all...)

love of the music 1st off. I still have a day job so at the moment any extra money i get for djing is a bonus. the logical next step is to find a way to earn enough on djing alone.

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