From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018050114575897771-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It's been a busy few days.  Family issues, nothing bad, but stuff I need   
   > to participate in.  A lot of me being a taxi :-)   
      
   May not be bad but doesn't sound all that good, or at least fun ;)   
      
   > Had a call yesterday afternoon to do a fill in solo gig in the evening.   
   > Jumped on that.  It went well, was a fun job.   
      
   Just like that, jump on it? That kind of stuff creeps me out.   
      
   > Things are kinda calm just now. No big band panics to worry about. Maybe   
   > my BP will settle down a bit.  Yeah, it's finally dawning on me how our   
   > problems are the result of how the various band members see the gig.   
      
   I see a gig primarily as opportunity to do my very best!   
      
   > To me it's my job.   
      
   I can't see it primarily like that, because there are many jobs that Suck,   
   so this Must be something More, MUCH MORE than that!   
   Rather for me, it's a labor of Love!   
      
   > To some of them it's a weekend hobby, and one they fully intend to treat   
   > as a total " no effort " relaxation affair.   
      
   Many 'hobbies' involve Lots of Hard Work, but this one is clearly based on   
   LAZINESS!   
      
   > That'd be good if all we ever did was play jams.  And, hey, there's   
   > nothing wrong with that, other than it's hard to get paid for jamming.   
      
   There you go again, knocking jamming. Yet you do gigs without rehearsals, or   
   setlists, and all from memory!   
      
   The Fact is it's easy to get paid, and be in Demand ***IF*** it's a QUALITY   
   performance!   
   QUALITY jamming is no different than ANY other kind of QUALITY performing!!!   
      
   Only problem for you, and you've mentioned it so very many times, is that   
   there's a Serious Problem with Quality from Lazy GOOF-OFFS you're so often   
   Stuck playing with.   
      
   > And this is my job, even tho I won't starve without it, I treat it   
   > according to a saying one of my friends uses " a workman is worthy of his   
   > hire " ... which I translate to mean, if you want me to do work for you,   
   > play music, then you should expect to pay me in some manner for that.   
   > Gotta pay the fiddler is another way of saying similar.   
      
   For so very long, I'm so used, often quite literally, to working for either   
   no pay or far too little, to ever again relate one (working) to the other   
   (getting paid).   
   To me, by definition, a job is simply something to be done, nothing more,   
   nothing less.   
   And being paid is to be Conditionally given something on a quid pro quo   
   basis as an exchange for something else, nothing more, nothing less.   
      
   > If you want me to do work, I want paid ... that would be my version.   
      
   That's a somewhat practical idea, insomuch that bills come due, thanks to   
   Satan's Possession of the Terminally Stupid co clearly evidenced by their   
   being into the Root of ALL EVIL, but when it comes to a Labor of Love, and   
   for me, Music definitely is, I Love the  work whether I get paid or not.   
      
   > I can sit home and sing to myself if I just feel the need to sing for free   
   > :-)   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   I Love too SHARE the Music...can't have a Love Vibe without that!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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