I agree with Eddie's view of a sellout.

I played in wedding bands virtually all of my adult life, a weekend warrior. Although there were some songs that I hated to play I did enjoy the gigs. Some people called me a sellout because I played in wedding bands for the money, you can make a lot more money per weekend playing weddings than bars. BUT I did enjoy playing most all of the songs and more importantly making my customers happy.

Like Josie I was making a lot of money in regular job. I was happy in my research job for about 30 of the 39 years of employment so by Eddie's definition I sold out for the last nine years. However I had a family to feed, and a mortgage to pay so I guess I sold out for my family and that to me was more important than music, in fact it still is more important than music.

This is just me and your situations may be different.


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