Quote Originally Posted by lagstronaut
Thanks guys. I've been told multiple times now not to mix business and hobbies, so I guess that's a major peice of advice.

Tokudai --- sounds like you've had quite the business experience. I'd ask you more questions but you say you found your niche fast and at the right time, and that's my problem right now. I want to have a career dealing with music in some capacity but I don't want to deal with the overall bullshit that is the Music Industry (it's a load of crap, trust me). I just really cannot find a way to incorporate music into a self-made business that isn't being done by hundreds of people per city already (magazines, recording studios to name a few). It's killing me, college applications are due in 3 weeks and I have no idea if that is the route to take anymore.

Ericwt --- may I ask what your original business was dealing with? Not specifically if you don't want to answer, but the area you expertised in. Was it something you liked so you started it? Was the market ready for something like this so you took advantage? I'm not sure if I should try to incorporate something I like into my business to make it a passion or just find what the market is looking for right now and get on the gravy train. The problem with the gravy train though is, if it turns out to be a fad and ends, where does that leave me?
(ok, i know im going to sound like mechanics is my life, and that i do nothing but smoke pot, work on cars, and sit on the internet... but it basicaly is my life)

but dude, auto mechanics, the gravy train, theres no end in the near futcher... i mean, if you own a car from 2000 or above, i want you to walk out their and tell me you can open the hood of that car, and fix anything that gose wrong with it... ive been around cars all of my life, and not even i can do that...theres to much electrical... plus, even with older cars, teens are buying them, and when they break down, they dont know shit about cars... so were do they bring their cars... a shop... ok, your moms driving down the road, and all of a sudden, her car starts making a funny noise, so she drives it home, and asks the man of the house to take a look at it... and opens the hood, and after mumbling about the wires, in new cars, and how crapy this jap car is, for dad ends up kicking it a half a million times, a neabhor calls the cops, and hes arrested for insurance fruad... so your mom brings the car to the closest garge... and they hook a coumputer up to the damn thing... and while thats running, they go out back, smoke a joint and then come back in, and everything wrong with the car, is displayed on a coumputer....then they get to work...

theres always gonna be some kool aid in the pitcher of car mechanics... cause the cars are just getting newer, smaller and to many damn wires for the average home mechanic to fix it...plus, someday, theres all those hybrid things, and bio diesel things comming out...

about the time that the last of the kool aid comes out of the pitcher, is when everyone is driving a hybrid... but come on... no were in the near futcher is that gonna happen, because theres people like me... american slobs, who love our smog producing cars...

(im thinking i may be a giant walking bilbord for car mechincs)