I'm in a similar boat only substitute full time girlfriend for full time rock band. I went back to school to accomplish a personal goal. I didn't do it to earn more money, that's not often a problem if you're worth anything in the IT field. I did it for me, it's one thing to say you can do it and another to do it.
I'm one year in now and have one to go. Even though it can be a challenge to juggle work, band, school, and occasional girlfriend, I'm happy everyday that I just made the decision to get back in school.
While it's not for everyone, if you think you can handle maintaining the balance, just do it and stop thinking about it...you won't regret it.
Plus, as a bonus...after you're in school you can justify all those countless hours you spend watching Meet The Parents for the 50th time. How can someone call you lazy if you work full time and are in school...not to mention other activities.
They always say 'it's not fair to the artist' it's the record companies that get the majority of the money from album sales. that's what this is really about. the poor artist only get's about a dollar for each cd if that. the artist makes all their money from merch sales and from playing live. if an artist is 'fortunate' enough to get a 'big time' record deal then they want as many people as possible to have and like their music. i don't speak for all artists obviously but the more people that have and love the music the better chance the artist has of them coming to their concert and buying their merch. the more people that come to concerts, the bigger venues the artist must play. the bigger the venue the more money the artist makes. i know this article was about the technology but i'm sick of the artist being blamed indirectly for this crap. it's the evil record companies that are to blame ultimately i believe. yes, i'm in a band that does not have a major record deal...am i bitter, yes...i can deal with it. my point was that this is all about money...but not for the artist, for the record companies. let's not forget that.
It gets worse...check out: http://www.digitalconvergence.com
I work for a TV station and we were pitched this a few months back. You hook your computer to tv and while commercials play a sound signals your computer to go to a web page specifically to order what they were advertised. This company also talked about these free 'Cats' that Radio Shack would give free so people can eventually scan newspaper and magazine adds to be taken directly to that product on the webpage.
Will the 'public' buy it?
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I'm in a similar boat only substitute full time girlfriend for full time rock band. I went back to school to accomplish a personal goal. I didn't do it to earn more money, that's not often a problem if you're worth anything in the IT field. I did it for me, it's one thing to say you can do it and another to do it.
I'm one year in now and have one to go. Even though it can be a challenge to juggle work, band, school, and occasional girlfriend, I'm happy everyday that I just made the decision to get back in school.
While it's not for everyone, if you think you can handle maintaining the balance, just do it and stop thinking about it...you won't regret it.
Plus, as a bonus...after you're in school you can justify all those countless hours you spend watching Meet The Parents for the 50th time. How can someone call you lazy if you work full time and are in school...not to mention other activities.
"...it's certainly not fair to the artist."
They always say 'it's not fair to the artist' it's the record companies that get the majority of the money from album sales. that's what this is really about. the poor artist only get's about a dollar for each cd if that. the artist makes all their money from merch sales and from playing live. if an artist is 'fortunate' enough to get a 'big time' record deal then they want as many people as possible to have and like their music. i don't speak for all artists obviously but the more people that have and love the music the better chance the artist has of them coming to their concert and buying their merch. the more people that come to concerts, the bigger venues the artist must play. the bigger the venue the more money the artist makes. i know this article was about the technology but i'm sick of the artist being blamed indirectly for this crap. it's the evil record companies that are to blame ultimately i believe. yes, i'm in a band that does not have a major record deal...am i bitter, yes...i can deal with it. my point was that this is all about money...but not for the artist, for the record companies. let's not forget that.
It gets worse...check out: http://www.digitalconvergence.com I work for a TV station and we were pitched this a few months back. You hook your computer to tv and while commercials play a sound signals your computer to go to a web page specifically to order what they were advertised. This company also talked about these free 'Cats' that Radio Shack would give free so people can eventually scan newspaper and magazine adds to be taken directly to that product on the webpage. Will the 'public' buy it?