These are all great responses. I’m almost 30 and have been in the entertainment industry since I graduated High School. I’m thinking of making a transition. Initially all the excitement around this sector was cool. I certainly learned a lot. I feel now that it has lost it’s luster and the only reason I’m still in the industry is because I know it. I would like to explore other options though. I don’t care about the same things I used to like money, status and validation from others. Now I don’t give a shit at all. I feel like a lot of the realities of the industry are in conflict with who I am as a person. Principally in the area of being an artist. What I see in the music industry isn’t really art to me. It’s product. Product that is socially acceptable and saleable. There has to be a three verses and a bridge in the song. Why does there have to be?

I would say you need to follow your gut. All we really want is to love and be loved. Money and status don’t matter. Don’t put yourself through 5 years of being a PA in hopes of something that may never come. Not unless you believe in it and don’t care about the outcome.

I don’t know what I’m going to do if I make a transition, because I don’t really have dreams anymore other than to be happy. Which when I reflect on it, is very sad. Everything is so predictable and scripted for me. It’s soulstripping. I have come so far and accomplished so much – on paper. I have learned a lot about myself. At the same time I feel that I have learned nothing. I have achieved great successes, yet I am emotionally and spiritually bankrupt.

I don’t think this is the end of my artistic career. I just think it will take on a new form, one that is more fulfilling and not dictated by the market. Maybe this will happen for you as well. You don’t have to be in entertainment, you can write cook books and start a family. You being happy and doing that is the greatest thing anyone could ever do for the universe.

I wish you the best in your next steps!