What do you do on your day off?
OMG! I finally have a few days off! What do you do on your day off from work?
I described my recent day off to a friend, and he replied, sadly, “Wow, it sounds like you worked on your day off.”
I loved my day off to do work!
You see, there are two types of work for an artist or musician. In How to Be Creative, cartoonist and author Hugh Macleod describes it as the “sex and cash theory.”
The sexy work we love to do (for me writing original songs, recording original songs) is the stuff I get to do on my days off! The cash work is the work that helps pay the bills. (Right now, this is playing covers at bars.)
I enjoy playing my covers gigs, too, but it should be no surprise that really fun moments is writing and performing my original music.
So my days off are the days might sound similar to my days working; but trust me, it’s different.
Driving a few hundred miles to spend 10 hours working on music at Catherine North Studios--yep, that's a great day off!
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