Dear Dude:

The topic of your thread is “Am I just wasting my time?” I am now ready to give you my answer:

Depending on your goal:

If your goal is to be rich and famous based on your talent as a musician, your chances are slim, very small. Your chances are very small whether you have talent or not so I don’t need to listen to your recordings to know that.

If your goal is to make an adequate living out of being a musician, pay for necessities of shelter, food, health, at the least, then your chances are higher but still very small. Here I am assuming your talent is not exceptional (based on others’ responses here after hearing you and based on the lack of online feedback you attest to (“I put things out there, online but rarely get feedback.”)

If your goal is to have fun, then as long as you are having fun creating music, you are not wasting your time. If your goal is to improve your performance as a musician, then you are not wasting your time because I am sure you can improve.

If your goal… etc. etc. Depending on your goal.

You have a position on having children and I encourage you to honor it and not have children.

Depending on your goals. Just because society is based on the socially accepted and admired goal of improving one’s standard of living, that is buying things, owning things, it doesn’t mean you have to submit to it. Not at all. You decide what your values are, that is, what is important to you and then you look at what is and what you can do about it.

anita