<story><title>Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student</title><url>https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softfalcon</author><text>Yeah, similar situation with:&lt;p&gt;- My brother who is a writer while his wife works at an industrial job that pays exceedingly well&lt;p&gt;- My friend who is an artist, whose husband owns an engineering firm with big medical device contracts&lt;p&gt;- My other friend who is a nature photographer, whose husband works in tech&lt;p&gt;- Yet another friend who is a musician, whose wife works in tech&lt;p&gt;- Another friend who runs a dog shelter, whose husband is a high paid engineer&lt;p&gt;- My other friend who is a writer, whose girlfriend is a real estate investment manager at a large bank&lt;p&gt;- My friend who is a social worker helping at-risk youth, whose husband is an oil and gas executive&lt;p&gt;- And yet another friend who makes jewelry and sews bags, whose wife owns an investment management firm&lt;p&gt;- Finally, a friend who volunteers to catalogue deer populations for conservation, whose boyfriend just happens to be a big wig executive for the city&lt;p&gt;I could go on, I see this phenomenon everywhere. There are no free lunches in life, someone is always footing the bill... just follow the money.</text></item><item><author>ipsi</author><text>Reminds me of a couple of married friends of mine. The wife played a classical musical instrument (e.g., not an electric guitar) and had her sights set on being a professional. While working towards that she did a lot of teaching&amp;#x2F;practising&amp;#x2F;etc, and her students would often say something along the lines of &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m so envious of all this time you have to practice music! How are you able to do it?!&amp;quot; and her reply was always a bit of a let-down&amp;#x2F;reality check for them: &amp;quot;my husband works in tech.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not quite independently wealthy, but I imagine there&amp;#x27;s a fair few artists out there in a similar position.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeyLaughingBoy</author><text>&amp;quot;What do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Homeless.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lifers, Dayjobbers, and the Independently Wealthy: A Letter to a Former Student</title><url>https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>softfalcon</author><text>Yeah, similar situation with:&lt;p&gt;- My brother who is a writer while his wife works at an industrial job that pays exceedingly well&lt;p&gt;- My friend who is an artist, whose husband owns an engineering firm with big medical device contracts&lt;p&gt;- My other friend who is a nature photographer, whose husband works in tech&lt;p&gt;- Yet another friend who is a musician, whose wife works in tech&lt;p&gt;- Another friend who runs a dog shelter, whose husband is a high paid engineer&lt;p&gt;- My other friend who is a writer, whose girlfriend is a real estate investment manager at a large bank&lt;p&gt;- My friend who is a social worker helping at-risk youth, whose husband is an oil and gas executive&lt;p&gt;- And yet another friend who makes jewelry and sews bags, whose wife owns an investment management firm&lt;p&gt;- Finally, a friend who volunteers to catalogue deer populations for conservation, whose boyfriend just happens to be a big wig executive for the city&lt;p&gt;I could go on, I see this phenomenon everywhere. There are no free lunches in life, someone is always footing the bill... just follow the money.</text></item><item><author>ipsi</author><text>Reminds me of a couple of married friends of mine. The wife played a classical musical instrument (e.g., not an electric guitar) and had her sights set on being a professional. While working towards that she did a lot of teaching&amp;#x2F;practising&amp;#x2F;etc, and her students would often say something along the lines of &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m so envious of all this time you have to practice music! How are you able to do it?!&amp;quot; and her reply was always a bit of a let-down&amp;#x2F;reality check for them: &amp;quot;my husband works in tech.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not quite independently wealthy, but I imagine there&amp;#x27;s a fair few artists out there in a similar position.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see a list of jobs for which:&lt;p&gt;1. We generally value as a society&lt;p&gt;2. Two people both working the job and married to each other cannot afford to raise two children.&lt;p&gt;There are some jobs which we romanticize as being this way (musicians and other artists being a big example), but are we okay with e.g. social workers all either starving, or from wealthy backgrounds?</text></comment>