Strange prob
 

hey guyz, i have a really strange problem....

all i wanna be a guitarist

but my parents see my future as a programmer....

and wat the irony is that i m not able to oppose them, coz i have commited so much mistakes, failed them so many times at so many occasions that right now, wat they think of me is a targetless person, a person who doesn't know wat to do with his/her life, i have not succeeded them at any point in my whole life...

today...

I am a graduate (B.A.) without a target....

all they want me to do is earn, do a job, or something productive....

but i never felt the urge for those things in my whole life....

anything that doesn't seem to provide earning in my case, is just meaningless for them...

but what i have discovered so far, i wanna get into music....i m not the guy who goes to the office 26 days a month, waits for his paycheck, begs for holidays and doesn't know wat the hell is personal life...i wanna b free in my life...i m not a job guy...please help me at this point that what should I do to get started? coz if things go this way, i dnt think i will ever get to be wat i really wanna be...

Welcome to Music Banter, jordan. http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/r...999/drinks.gif

Hey Jordan. Can't you just get a job and do music on the side? I know it's a lot easier to support yourself economically here as a programmer than it is as a musician.

hey tore, i know that u r giving a very reasonable answer from your point of view...

but why should we live for others, than ourselves? its our life...

and even if we leave that point, a person is only well suited in the places that are of his interest...

thanx bro...but i was looking for a solution for my prob...posting something more useful as tore did would have made me quite happy....

Actually, no man is an island. You rely on other people in most aspects of your life, from the people who make the food you eat for breakfast to the people who sew the clothes you wear or the guys who made the house you live in.

Why should you stand outside the big give & take and only be a taker? If you don't work, you don't get the money which enables you to enjoy the work everyone else does.

Unless of course you can inherit a fortune or win a cash lottery.

very true tore, but wat to do if one cannot get his head into the work he doesn't want to do...

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Crap. My greeting falls short of tore's useful advice. http://i485.photobucket.com/albums/r...9/facepalm.gif

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Then find some other line of work you don't mind doing and use it to support your musical pursuits.

Develop a programming language that is written using different frequencies, and become famous for your "Guitar Jam Coding" technique.

very ****ing funny...don't make fun if u ain't got brains that can help./.

some ideas? buddy they want me 2 make my ****ing career in programming...and i just dnt want that....:(

You've got about one more post to convince me that you're here for more than solving a ridiculously childish problem you seem to actually have no interest in solving.

I'm just some random guy on the internet, I'm sure you have much better ideas about what might interest you than I do. Just keep in mind that there are thousands if not millions of of careers out there. Find one you like and make music in your spare time.

better yet, write a program that can make oscillatory algorithm soundwaves exactly sounding like a guitar

(no synth can do that yet)

i dnt know if u have any kinda interest in helping others ....all u want is to increase the post count below ur damned name... and stop s-u-c-k-i-n-g if u can...

dude...u ain't gettin my point...

they want me to just break the keyboard keys and nothing...they just dont get anything other than that in their old generation head....:confused:

t-r-o-l-l alert

cmon man,

someone who wants to be a musician would take the first advice from a musician community....

u could give some good ideas,

look, dude, it isn't that "strange" a problem

my first priority was being a musician but i ended up a lawyer - it remains a regret, but yet, i've seen a lot of musical failures, such as a fren of my father who used to play saxophone, but now drives cabs

add to that, people in Malaysia aren't enlightened towards music, they ain't gonna buy my stuff

so i advise just do it part-time, i record stuff part-time as well, and put it on the Net

jordan, I agree with Duce in that your problem is not a strange one at all.

I know several professional musicians and they all have jobs on the side. They don't make much money from album sales and certainly not from services like Spotify. In the end, they end up spending more money than they make and they have to support it financially. Unless you're doing something very commercial, that's the way it is. I'm sure many of them would like to just be full time musicians if it was a valid option. So, get a job you can stand doing and be a musician on the side.

Also; a tip. You probably won't stick around here long if you keep insulting the moderators and other members.

I guess you're doomed then. Bummer.

Just from the grammar alone, I'm thinking you are probably a pretty ****ty programmer. Those guys are usually well organized and anal. At the very least they capitalize properly.

So what is the deal? You don't want to program, so don't do it. Two things will happen...your parents will understand and allow you to keep mooching off of them or they won't understand, kick you out of the house, and you'll see you need to get a real job anyway. Or you will make it in the music industry, who knows.

What? It's entirely possible. Just take the base of an existing compiler (C, Java, something Object Oriented would probably be better), and write an interface between some sort of sound processing software and the compiler. You could even use something low-lever like C++ as the base code entirely, and just write translation software that analyzes the music you're playing and translates it into C code. It isn't the most... efficient way to write code, but it's certainly novel and it might make you a few bob :P

If you're comfortable living in a small cardboard box in the street and can go without eating for weeks on end you are right, you don't need a job and you'll be free to play music as often as you like.

May I suggest getting a dog too, the animal lovers will give you more money.

Is that cost-effective though? You'd need to spend money on the dog as well.

This thread's ridiculous, grow the fuck up.

I don't think that anyone really wants to work. I often feel depressed when I realize that after I'm done with college, my whole existence is gonna be, for the most part, work. Still, you gotta do it cause chances are you're not gonna make it big in the music world. However, you could get a job that involves music if you put some effort into it. You could be a sound engineer or a roadie or something. Just try to be realistic.

I used to feel the exact same way, but it's not really that bad once you get out there. I do still miss summer vacation though.

I'm kinda looking forward to work tbh. I'm looking to get involved with a bunch of graduate schemes for problem solving based companies. If I can solve problems as a career, I'm pretty sure I'll be fairly happy!

get a rabbit, then - you can eat it after it dies

You failed. Goodbye.

Generating code like that can be very difficult. One of my former classmates though wrote a program in Java that compares two guitar waveforms and calculates the difference between the two as a percentage. He turned it into a game like guitar hero with a real guitar.

Hmm, interesting. I would imagine it's not an area that's well traveled, there are potentially a whole range of interesting combinations that can be made!

oh dear, looks like someone hasn't learned about life yet :(