Aspiring dj in need of assistance

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Originally Posted by SpeshulEd

You're 18, have a job at a grocery store and go to college. Do you still live at home?

Growing up is a bitch, let me just start out with that.

If you don't live at home, it's time to cut the chord and start growing up. Open your own bank account, most colleges provide you with access to a credit union or a small local bank with less fees. Set up direct deposit so your check from your job gets deposited there. Your parents no longer control your money.

Now make a budget - make sure you can cover your rent, food, school supplies, fun money, and money to put away for things you want to buy. It probably wouldn't hurt to start planning for your future, but you're only 18, so investing probably isn't high on your to do list.

So after all of that, you'll be independent and will one day be able to buy some DJ toys.

If you still live at home, you've got a lot more work to do. Unfortunately, you still live under their rules. You're old enough to make a change, just depends how far in debt you want to go.

When I was 18, I chose to stay at home, go to community college and work my ass off. I had lots of cash for fun things...then I went to an expensive college to finish and was flat broke for a long time. But now I have a decent job that allows me to buy a lot of toys. I just needed to be patient.

Marrying into money and not having any kids helps with the toy aspect as well.

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Trust me bro, I understand completely. I live at home so ya their rules. And I plan on managing my own money now, and imma leave a grand for food, gas, emergency funds, etc.

Seriously sounds like you're one of those kids doing it for title and attention. Quit while you're ahead - cause "if" you really are unhappy with the situation, human nature is to revolt/change it. So the sob story isn't really working. And if you honestly had money, go spend it. If your money isn't in your own account, that's your issue. You should have thought about that in the beginning.

^^This. What did you expect us to do about it?

If you are going to get around $200 for Christmas get a copy of Traktor, a copy of Traktor Bible and a headphone splitter cable. Use your qwerty keyboard as the controller and put up with the fact that you are going to be using mono for a while. Learn everything there is to learn (most of the skills you need are not based on a particular controller. Keep on working, add a controller, upgrade Traktor to Pro and build up. Problem solved, you dont have to ask your Dad shit. In fact you could "show" him you are serious by asking him for the Traktor Bible book for Christmas and telling him you will invest in the controller "when you are ready".

I am not even going to charge you for this advice.

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Originally Posted by ChadimusMaximus

Well to make this more clear my dad is really against the arts. He deleted numerous songs I created in fl studio (demo). He knows what fl studio is, he sells software at HP(yes HP as in Hewlett Packered)

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Dude, you're old enough to move out, get a job, buy a pack a cigarettes and die for your country. Perhaps you're old enough to have different tastes than your dad. It sounds like you're looking to this forum to give you the permission and support that your father won't. In reality you don't need permission from anybody except yourself.

If you're going to be a DJ it will be because you found away to do it and not because your father let you (or a bunch of dudes on some website told you to).

When I was 18 I got kicked out of home and had to go from California all the way across the country an hour away from washington D.C. I always dreamed of being a dj since I was 13, I asked my parents parents for TT's, but no lie one christmas I got a pair of socks. So I would just stare at an old record player wishing it worked and could scratch on it. Always had bad luck and a hard life. It wasn't till I was 25 till I finally had the chance to get turntables, and I had to trade my PS3 for it. It's been a year from now when I finally got TT's and TSP1 and 2, but moral of the story is if you work hard and have patience you will get there, that's if you want it that bad. So please don't give us that crap dude, maybe your dad knows you and thinks it's a joke for you to be a dj. I didn't choose to dj, it was in my soul, and it chose me.


Just Be happy that Daddy is paying for college!!!