Living off music is everyone’s dream. Lately, I’ve had this idea stuck in my head: it’s getting harder and harder to make a living from your music project. Merch is tough to sell, streams don’t bring in much unless you’re hitting billions, and live shows at least in my city only draw crowds if the artist has invested a ton of money in their project. There’s so much going on that, in the end, nothing is left.
How do you manage your finances? Are there any best practices we can follow to improve the economy of the music scene? It feels like everyone in the industry is thriving except for the artists.
Bought a stock 2010 Cummins and just installed a switch on the fly 5 position custom tune with easylink. On the first test drive I noticed that when the exhaust brake would engage upon deceleration it seems to surge a little bit at the beginning. Like the exhaust brake will spool up all the way close a little bit so the pitch drops and then spool back all the way and stay like that. It doesn't happen every time and it's kind of hard to catch on video. Additionally it only seems to do this in automatic and when you shift it down into any gear it doesn't surge at all. From the research I've done after work today I'm going to clean the pressure sensor coming from the manifold as well as that tube and the maf sensor. do you think that will take care of my issue or do you think my actuator is going out?
For the past few years every time I go home the house I grew up in seems to be in worse and worse condition. My parents seem to have just decided that maintenance is too much work and they're too tired to bother. They're older and they've worked demanding jobs so they're both at a hard 60s, they can barely move after putting in 8 hours so I'm not here to judge them on that front but the fact of the matter is they live in absolute squalor.
I've been trying to decide if I want to move back home for a bit to try and supervise some work I'd like to get done to the home to make it more comfortable for them. I fully expect to never see the money again. Cleaning out the borderline horde situation, hire some contractors to add some new insulation to the exterior of the building so it's survivable in the desert heat.
There's just a lot of what ifs here that are making me hesitant. What if I try to get an estimate for the work and it's way outside of what I could reasonably pay? What if they're booked out until next year?
I've basically never done any of this but I'm also the only one in a position to even attempt it.
I know I know who complains about not having enough work but hear me out! Without giving too much detail I am currently in a rotational program for work where we spend about a year with a team before being rotated to a new team in a different area of the company for a total of 3 rotations. I am currently on my first one and this team simply does not have enough work for me to do. I have asked for more and my manager keeps saying she will ask around and see what she can find....doesn't really find much. I have a set amount of daily tasks that I do where if I am intentional about being really slow about it I can drag it out to taking an hour and a half (these things do not take that long I simply have found I have to make them take that long or I will go mad) and same thing with my afternoon tasks....I occasionally have a few random tasks that pop up but they vary and also do not take that much time up and it is all very repetitive and the same thing every. Single. Day.
My team sits in a few different states from me so I do not actually sit with them IO on the days I have to go IO I have formed some work relationships with people I sit by and talk with them. One of them (who I don't even work with) has found some random tasks/work that I can help her with to give me something to do.
My problem- I want to learn. I so badly just want to learn. I look at the job market and I feel so stressed about getting transferable and desirable skills. I have no problem working 8 hours a day but where I feel myself going mad is having to look fake busy and doing the same repetitive tasks every day that take zero brain power. It seems that other people on other teams for the rotational either have a lot of work or also are bored but I think I have the least amount/the most repetitive. I feel like I can't leave as this is my first job out of undergrad and the team they put me on isn't even what I want to do/am interested in at all (I was not told I was going on this team when hired) and the pay is pretty good for what I do. I want to stick it out for my next rotation but I am only a little over halfway through on this one.
My question--
We have meetings occasionally with an HR rep to talk about how the rotation is going but how honest can I be? Is there a professional way to word it that the job description they told me does not fit what I am currently doing and I am going mad? I was more busy as an intern. My team is all really nice and I don't wanna throw any of them under the bus. One of the people I sit with (but don't work with) told me my manager isn't going to want the hire ups to know they don't have enough work for me on their team. So how do I go about expressing a desire to want to stay at the company but I want to go to a different role/team with more engagement? Do I just grind it out and finish this one? When they ask me how it is going do I just keep lying and saying that it is fine or can I say I have found that my workload has decreased and I need more?
I swear someday I’ll post this before the day of the show. Not this day though. Join us as we celebrate our first anniversary and say farewell to one of our founding producers who has been extremely generous with his time and energy and needs to refocus. Our feature is Alix Klingenberg. Doors open at 6:30, show is done at 8pm sharp followed by fraternizing at Pearl St.
I have seen many people make posts about these loot nerfs, but not for all of them combined, which imo shows a much better picture of how redicilous Riot has gotten this season. So before this season there were two ways of getting skins for free (not counting victorious skins), namely from hextech chests or through mythic essence:
\- one hextech chest each by completing milestone 1 and/or 3 in any champion mastery -> removed
\- one masterwork chest by completing a total of 12 milestones from all champion mastery combined -> removed
\- you would occasionally get a key fragment from the honor system after logging in -> removed
\- 10 Mythic Essence granted every 50 levels starting at 150 through the leveling system -> removed
\- instead of a free orb from the event pass you now only get one of the event skins (which is arguably just a glorified chroma), meaning that before you would get a free skin + the option for other stuff (orange essence, mythic essence etc.) instead of now only a skin
\- mythic essence from masterwork milestones -> removed
All in all this means that every possibility to get any chest as a f2p player was completely removed, which at the same time removes the ability to get mythic essence. You can now only get ME through the sanctum (XD). THE ONLY SKINS YOU CAN NOW GET FOR FREE IS ONE EVENT SKIN PER EVENT PASS (SO 3 PER YEAR!!!!), WHEREAS BEFORE YOU WOULD GET DOZENS OF CHESTS FOR FREE! Let that sink in. (Except victorious skins, but not a single one of them looks good imo)
At the same time even the PAID rewards were nerfed, with a heavy nerf to the event pass. There are 7 orbs in it (same as before) but you cant get battle pass tokens any more, which would give you at least another 7 orbs, with the possibility of a lot more, depending on how much you played.
Welcome to Season 2025!
The amount of calls that went the Chiefs way yesterday was ridiculous. Eagles got lots of favorable calls as well. I’m trying to believe it isn’t but it really seemed like the NFL had a certain matchup in mind.
Hi, single male seeking a SB in Greater Toronto.
I am 5'8", average build, i look like in 30s, casual and sweet personality.
I have had one arrangement before and looking to get back in the lifestyle. I’m looking for someone with whom I can hit it off naturally. I’ve lived in Toronto for a decade and came here as immigrant. I’m a person of color. I’m kind and generous.
I’m looking for someone who is in Greater Toronto area only. Not interested in anything online or long distance. I have preference for white and asian.
If this interests you, feel free to DM me. Let’s see if we connect.
We have an old iPhone 12 that’s partially working.
Want to use it as a music player, YouTube watching, and for video games.
Mostly for the kids, so I don’t want access to phone calls, FaceTime, texting, etc.
How do I set it up?
I know it's not in any way shape or form a common problem but it's something I'm struggling with since the update: I can no longer tell the difference between INT and AGL orbs along with PHYS AND TECH orbs. Side by side they look the same to me. In this update they changed the color hue slightly and it's making it difficult to get the needed orbs. Yes I've tried turning off Enhanced Color mode.
I am colourblind, incase that was necessary.
So I used to have a clothing addiction. I have so much clothes that I never have to buy clothes for the rest of my life (that's how bad it is). Anyways, I'm trying to get some of my money wasted back. And trying to be more minimal now.