What is your day job? (If any)

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Originally Posted by DaveSkinz

In my experience the more you can offer ppl the better your chances of success. During the day i run a DJ Store and School called DJ Mix Club, i write technical reviews for some local mags every couple weeks, i'm a 8 year resident DJ at a club and produce my own stuff and a band i play bass and keys in.

Wasn't it Einstein who said "If you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life." great motto to live by :-)

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Hey Dave, welcome to DJTT! :)

I read BPM every month man, awesome mag! I'm out of the country at present so I normally read up online.

Nice to see one of SA's big names coming over and chatting, hope to see you around here more often! There quite a few other SA guys on this forum, I'm sure you'll meet them soon! ;)

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Originally Posted by DaveSkinz

In my experience the more you can offer ppl the better your chances of success. During the day i run a DJ Store and School called DJ Mix Club, i write technical reviews for some local mags every couple weeks, i'm a 8 year resident DJ at a club and produce my own stuff and a band i play bass and keys in.

Wasn't it Einstein who said "If you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life." great motto to live by :-)

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Welcome boet - details please. Facebook page? Website?

I'm Network Engineer for the Dept Of Defense for the past 10 years. Shhhhhh.

Hours are great. I work from 12pm - 8pm.

Some advice to aspiring DJ's. Don't kill your education over DJ'ing. Cause only a small percentage make it big. The route I choose to go is to get my education. Make DJ'ing a hobby. Start my career and have my career fund my DJ'ing. It's easier to get gigs if your a backer for a promotion team or club. While most struggle to get equipment or what not. I fund my own stuff.

Mind you just cause you backing people doesn't mean you can slack off. If fact you work harder. Cause they will always be critics. ;)

Much <3 and do what you have to do to keep your life balanced and as rewarding as possbile.

for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart

"Quote Steve Jobs"

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Originally Posted by JonathanBlake

Welcome boet - details please. Facebook page? Website?

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Well the mag I'm referring to is BPM Life, you can find the online edition here..

http://bpmlife.co.za/

I dunno about his FB page, lets hope he stays around. ;)

I'm a Process tech working on a natural gas platform offshore Sarawak waters, Malaysia.
Working on 2 weeks on/off basis. sometimes the work was tough, less sleep but nevertheless shit tons of overtime!
On my free time when the plant is smooth it'll get boring & that's the time for loitering around forums & ebay looking for news about gear & hunting for more gears :D
Normal routine would be babysitting the Control Room, monitoring the platform status...
The platform is not too shabby too, we have a gym room full of jamming gears & a decent PA setup, where i used to bring my controller & laptop up there & starts mixing when i'm off shift..

A pretty rewarding job I say, been on this industry for more than 6 years now & have a decent living out of it :)

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Originally Posted by Dustin V

Well the mag I'm referring to is BPM Life, you can find the online edition here.
http://bpmlife.co.za/
I dunno about his FB page, lets hope he stays around. ;)

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Thanks DV - at last, what seems like a decent SA blog!

Aerospace Engineer. My job is boring as shit and I work with a bunch of nerds and people on the autism spectrum.

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Originally Posted by DaveSkinz

In my experience the more you can offer ppl the better your chances of success. During the day i run a DJ Store and School called DJ Mix Club, i write technical reviews for some local mags every couple weeks, i'm a 8 year resident DJ at a club and produce my own stuff and a band i play bass and keys in.

Wasn't it Einstein who said "If you love what you do, you won't work a day in your life." great motto to live by :-)

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Hey Dave!

I am a Saffer too! Only heard good things about you and your store!

Welcome to DJTT!

:)

I'm a structural engineer - I design water towers for a living (my specialty being in the ones with concrete pedestals with steel containers on top).

I'm working in a hotel in the Bar/Kitchen on a Casual Contract which allows me to take what I want when I want and they don't really question it or be too mad at me for not doing enough hours. Thing with this is, is that they allow me to take hours when other people don't really want to work, so I can take most of the later night shifts. It's a good little job. Just a draw back is that they don't give me enough work some weeks which is a draw back.
This also means I can cut back the hours and/or turn down the days when I DJ, which to be fair is every other week. Nothing too much, but it's a start.