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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 123933" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Heritage for openers, Headliner preferred SAC SystemBrandon, I appreciate your thoughtfulness in this thread.&nbsp; Previously you have come across as a little bit of a zealot about your gear.This thread and the one on PSW about anklebiters bring to light some of the questions facing those &quot;doing production&quot; at some level.1. Decide whether you are a business or not.2. If yes, Decide what business you are in.&nbsp; If no, do whatever the heck you feel like, because you have a hobby and get to make your own rules.3. Come up with a business plan that offers something the world actually needs at a price where you can stay in business.4. Suck it up when your business/business plan requires making decisions that aren&#039;t your personal first choice.5. If you hold on loosely to your current plans and paradigm, technology can be your friend.These are hard questions - many of us got into this because we enjoy certain aspects of this.&nbsp; What &quot;this&quot; is is different in 2014 than it was in 2004, 1994, 1984, etc.&nbsp; What &quot;this&quot; is in 2014 may not include some of the aspects that we enjoy.I am one of &quot;those people&quot; with a day job in another industry.&nbsp; Because of this, I can use the gear I feel like using, and my economic realities are different than a &quot;real company&quot;.&nbsp; That being said, even I have had to go through a process of figuring out what the heck I am doing, as my world is changing, too.&nbsp; Over the last few years I have learned that what I really love is making events associated with causes that are important to me be excellent.&nbsp; I did a show yesterday that ended up being a 17-hour day, and I am back at work at the day job first thing this morning on 5 hours of sleep.&nbsp; I don&#039;t love the 2 hours of packing up, lifting heavy stuff, mosquitoes while loading the truck, or a few other less fun elements.&nbsp; I do really enjoy producing a really quality product that makes my customers look good, and that I worked up to this level through years of hard work. I also know that if I tried to live the life of a real road dog, I would be miserable, likely broke and/or divorced, etc.&nbsp; At question 1 I bailed, and am enjoying making my own rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 123933, member: 162"] Re: Heritage for openers, Headliner preferred SAC System Brandon, I appreciate your thoughtfulness in this thread. Previously you have come across as a little bit of a zealot about your gear. This thread and the one on PSW about anklebiters bring to light some of the questions facing those "doing production" at some level. 1. Decide whether you are a business or not. 2. If yes, Decide what business you are in. If no, do whatever the heck you feel like, because you have a hobby and get to make your own rules. 3. Come up with a business plan that offers something the world actually needs at a price where you can stay in business. 4. Suck it up when your business/business plan requires making decisions that aren't your personal first choice. 5. If you hold on loosely to your current plans and paradigm, technology can be your friend. These are hard questions - many of us got into this because we enjoy certain aspects of this. What "this" is is different in 2014 than it was in 2004, 1994, 1984, etc. What "this" is in 2014 may not include some of the aspects that we enjoy. I am one of "those people" with a day job in another industry. Because of this, I can use the gear I feel like using, and my economic realities are different than a "real company". That being said, even I have had to go through a process of figuring out what the heck I am doing, as my world is changing, too. Over the last few years I have learned that what I really love is making events associated with causes that are important to me be excellent. I did a show yesterday that ended up being a 17-hour day, and I am back at work at the day job first thing this morning on 5 hours of sleep. I don't love the 2 hours of packing up, lifting heavy stuff, mosquitoes while loading the truck, or a few other less fun elements. I do really enjoy producing a really quality product that makes my customers look good, and that I worked up to this level through years of hard work. I also know that if I tried to live the life of a real road dog, I would be miserable, likely broke and/or divorced, etc. At question 1 I bailed, and am enjoying making my own rules. [/QUOTE]

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