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View Poll Results: What job would you pick?
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Rock Star (lead singer of arena rock back U2 style)
32 16.16% -
Indie Rock Star (Lead singer of mid level indie band i.e. TVOTR)
54 27.27% -
Movie Star
15 7.58% -
Touring Comedian
12 6.06% -
DJ (i.e. Tiesto/Oakenfold/MSTRKRFT)
61 30.81% -
Doctor
7 3.54% -
Lawyer
4 2.02% -
Movie Reviewer (i.e. Roger Ebert)
13 6.57%
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02-16-2009, 08:26 AM #1Member
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02-16-2009, 08:34 AM #2Member
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Seeing as I already party like a rock star......
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02-16-2009, 08:36 AM #3Member
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on a side note....I hung out with a traveling comedian a few weeks ago. I was in this tiny little ski town at a hotel. He did a gig at the hotel I was staying at. The comedian has to drive all over US and Canada on his own dime. He drives to small unknown towns and does comedy each night. Apparently he is on the road majority of the year....
It seemed kinda depressing.New York Ice Cream TV Travel Good Times
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02-16-2009, 08:40 AM #4Member
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Well, the assumption on all of these options was that you would be a leader in your field. So if you were a comedian you would be at the least at a Brian Regan level or higher..
Jim Gaffigan
Dane Cook
Chris Rock.
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02-16-2009, 08:45 AM #5Member
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I would say that Movie Star gives the highest income with the least amount of work.
I was going back and forth between Movie Star and Indie Rock Singer. So I pondered these two options:
Lead singer of Death Cab For Cutie....get to marry Zooey, play shows, probably make 1 million a year.
Will Smith - make 30-50 million a year, work 6 months a year give or take.
TOUGH CHOICE.
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02-16-2009, 08:48 AM #6Coachella Junkie
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Indie rockstar, baby. Best of all worlds.
I'd rather have a hundred people love what I do than have a few million "kinda like" it.
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02-16-2009, 10:51 AM #7Member
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Roger Ebert has a sweet gig
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02-16-2009, 10:56 AM #8old school
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Anyone can be a DJ.
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02-16-2009, 12:26 PM #9old school
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Movie reviewer for sure. Get paid to sit at home and watch people entertain you. Nothing is expected from you either. You are the one that decides whats good or bad, not the other way around.
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02-16-2009, 01:40 PM #10old school
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Indie Rock star...seriously?
Shoot for the basement...Youth, you son of a bitch, where did you go?
Originally Posted by Emma Ocean
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02-16-2009, 01:47 PM #11Coachella Junkie
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Yes. I love all the "earn as much as i can with as little effort as possible" type replies. Way to go!
Originally Posted by JustSteve
Originally Posted by korbinn
Originally Posted by kroqken
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02-16-2009, 01:48 PM #12Coachella Junkie
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Sure. Do whatcha love, but stay small enough not to automatically be considered an asshole. I could live with that. Originally Posted by Cheddar's Cousin
Last edited by MissingPerson; 02-16-2009 at 02:04 PM.
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02-16-2009, 03:23 PM #13old school
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As long as I'm not an asshole...I could live with that.
Youth, you son of a bitch, where did you go?
Originally Posted by Emma Ocean
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werd Originally Posted by MissingPerson
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02-16-2009, 03:30 PM #15Member
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Bear Grylls isn't on the list. what gives?
Originally Posted by woogie846
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02-16-2009, 04:56 PM #16old school
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Couldn't find Director, so next best thing: DJ.
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeeeeeee!
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02-16-2009, 05:22 PM #17Daft Punky Junkie
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I was at a toss for this between Rock Star and Traveling Comedianne...Went for Rock Star thinking I'd end up with a 2 for 1 deal in the end.
Its like the Infinite Monkey Theorem, if you put X amount of monkeys in a room with a typewriter and ask them to give you Shakespeare 99% of them will fling their shit at you while the other 1% will masturbate in the corner.
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02-16-2009, 05:29 PM #18old school
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Henry Rollins or Mick Jagger. Who's funnier?
Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot piiiieeeeeeeee!
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02-16-2009, 05:33 PM #19Pedley Rocks
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nothing that would take me away from my kids/family for long periods of time...so most of those are out, except for movie reviewer.
well, maybe a dj. leave for the weekend and make tens of thousands of dollars and still be home to take the kids to school on monday.
touring fucking sucks.
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02-16-2009, 05:36 PM #20Coachella Junkie
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Yeah, it does, but I'm a nomad soul with a flinty antisocial streak.
Like The Littlest Hobo, but I don't rescue people from seaplanes all the time.
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02-16-2009, 05:47 PM #21Member
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I always wanted to live out my failed dreams as a drummer in a mid level indie band.
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012-2, 2013-1...
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02-16-2009, 06:31 PM #22Judgy McMarco
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I am having a hard time making a choice...
COACHELLA's: 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008. 2009. 2010. 2011. 2012. 2013. 2014. 2015. Originally Posted by TomAz
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02-16-2009, 08:58 PM #23Slave to the Rave
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The Chemical Sisters: featuring Miranda and Feather.
Originally Posted by shaggyduck
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02-16-2009, 11:13 PM #24Coachella Junkie
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I love your avatar Meowsy. Originally Posted by MeowMixer
Originally Posted by insbordnat
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02-16-2009, 11:18 PM #25Coachella Junkie
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I would be in an indie band.
the name of my band: Pigeon Pancake(out of respect for the pigeon i flatten with my car years ago)
the name of our first CD: Monkey Platter
the name of our first single: Freshly squeezedLast edited by Pixiessp; 02-17-2009 at 12:10 AM.
Originally Posted by insbordnat
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02-17-2009, 04:16 PM #26Coachella Junkie
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Pigeon Pancake already sounds like a band Pitchfork would love.
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02-17-2009, 05:42 PM #27Coachella Junkie
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yeah. wouldn't even have to make good music. it's all in the name.
Originally Posted by insbordnat
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02-17-2009, 05:46 PM #28Coachella Junkie
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I absolutely don't care what Natalie Portman's Shaved Head sound like, they're still awesome.
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02-17-2009, 06:09 PM #29Member
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I've done the movie review thing for local and school papers and all you really get is free movie tickets and some spending money. I'd rather make movies but that wasn't a choice, so it would be a tie between indie rockstar and DJ. You get a fan base but won't get recognised as easily on the street.
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02-17-2009, 06:11 PM #30Coachella Junkie
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On the other hand, I'd say people feel a lot more comfortable approaching/ bothering indie types when they do recognise them, because there's a more immediate perception that they're "one of us".
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