Seems its the case in a heck of a lot of places frustratingly
Musician, producer and audio engineer!
Seems its the case in a heck of a lot of places frustratingly
UK.
Everyone’s struggling. I can only speak for shy of 30 years ago (30 years old). But people can’t stay afloat or get started.
Jobs are fucked. They’re either entry level/service/retail jobs that pay nothing. Qualified or technical jobs that are paid less than 25k (I saw jobs requesting experience in coding languages and complex IT functions for around 23k) Then anything that pays more than 28k (still not enough to live on) has “senior” or “managing” in the title, requires experienced or qualifications that could single handedly run a business.
It feels like places are forcing more work onto individual people rather than hiring more people and spreading the work around.
I’m only at 24k and doing administrative work, Web dev, marketing, data management and some more technical stuff relating to the industry. But look at what’s available and I’m not suitably equipped to get anything with a higher salary. Even when I am, the response tends to be a negative despite being quite strong at applying. Presumably the competition is that strong.
Otherwise, collectively with my partner, we have nearly 60k income. We could secure a mortgage, but we can’t scrape together a house deposit. Even then the monthly repayments would be crazy high and inflation would screw us.
Both firm adults and living with parents despite having secure and intensive jobs. Can’t get anywhere even with budgeting so tightly that enjoyment money is very limited. My savings have started being eaten into for the first time as of this past month, so I’m walking into living off negative money.
When I look around I’m actually not in that bad a situation compared to some. But then others are living the dream.
Feels like the lows and the highs are so wide here right now. Where when I was growing up, my dad was a postman then a private courier and my mum a cleaner and we were fine, not well off, but didn’t live that differently to our middle class friends.
Moving on my mum took three menial jobs when we left my dad, but still paid rent and we never went without.
Don’t really understand it all, but it seems that its all going to shit.
That’s interesting! Glad someone can share my confusion hahah
Apparently my eyes go soft when I’m being silly. I enjoyed hearing it but I have no idea what it means
I got told to be careful of soy milk once by a conspiracy theorist buddy. Said it’ll turn me into a woman.
Hundred percent this conspiracy theory has bigoted roots.
It was Blackpool Zoo! Just to finish off our little holiday
Going to the zoo today. So should be a pretty good one!
A friend of mine said that he found looking for streamers on Twitch that stream something you’re interested in with your target language. Cos they most likely have a discord server, and it gives you the opportunity to converse with their community, and you’ll often be welcomed and helped out.
Woodhenge is a bit underwhelming (a few wood stumps in a pattern) but as it’s a good starting point to the free path, it’s a nice landmark to check off!
I got a quick recording job in this week, so I’m a few pounds richer and it’s a rare quiet week at work (so far)!
That’s a real win. My neighbour put my bin out for me, feeling lucky!
We went here a couple years back.
Drove to Woodhenge (a lot less impressive, but cool and you actually get to walk around the henge itself) then took a 40 minute stroll through some fields to get to a public footpath that was about a metre away from the paid stonehenge footpath.
Was really nice, we sat down, had some snacks and admired the henge.
Then later on our trip we passed through Avebury which is essentially a village surrounded by a henge. Massive rocks that you can touch, sit on, whatever.
Few tips for any stonehenge tourists! There’s a lot of history in that area.
I’ve always pined for a Godin Session! Looks a great guitar!
Playing around with different cab IRs was key for me to finding the best tones. Blending multiple IRs can be great too.
I use a pack where the SM57 IR is a bit too harsh and the R121 IR is a bit too boomy. Together they’re beautiful.
Getting the appropriate input level is key too. From there, tweaking EQ can help a good amount.
I’d also recommend, if you’ve not already, trying out the Neural Amp Modeler. It’s a bit like a Kemper Profiler but open source and plugin based. There’s a website called Tonehunt full of captures by the community. There are some great options for tone there!
They built a wall at ours to stop people doing this.
I work in a very office based environment, so I’d actually love to give that a try to see if they’d click!
After our mini heat wave I think we’re going to start getting a bit Autumnal already haha.
Hope the heat stays, got a week in Blackpool coming up in August and I don’t fancy it being drizzly haha
I hope its an alright easing in back to work. Annoying that you have to get back to it before surgery though!
Normal week for me. Nothing special, got some work experience kids in this afternoon so will see how that goes.
Luckily it’s quite sunny here so can keep justifying shorts to the office!
Not seen the movie.
Best friends is up and down. Had one definitive best friend who died around 5 years back and I’ve got a few clusters of friends, such as school pals, people I’ve been in bands with.
Though in the past year a bunch of work pals and old bandmates have come together and formed a new band just to have fun with, cos we’re all getting on a bit and need a hobby I suppose. It’s been really nice seeing them very often, bringing people from one element of my life into the fray with those from another.
I don’t think I’ve felt more friendship than right now in a long time because of this!