RE: Navigating the Freelance Musician Minefields
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I'm always faintly weirded out by the way that people behave differently in private, and then to each other in public
While I always try to be civil regardless of how I feel I'm always HOW CAN I (or anyone else for that matter) TRUST YOU if I encounter this (I try very hard not to encounter it these days).
I think people do appreciate when you just do your thing and stay aloof from the molasses, but that will also get you in trouble by people lacking the imagination to not play that game or who are just straight up control freaks desperate for everyone to validate their narrow minded views XD But that's the joys of everything.
I've done freelancing before, not music, but it seems to be literally everywhere, even encountered in homeschool groups when I wasn't working, like seriously?!
Keep on trying to stick to what makes you happiest and realest :)
Yeah, I think that that is the best way to go... if people are happy playing that game and are okay with it, then they can go and do that. But it sort of makes me a bit sick, so I won't do it... but I do realise that I'm in a special position (at the moment at least...) of not needing to!
I don't think anyone ever needs to act like that and the danger is when people pretend that they "have" to play that game to "succeed" I guess because refusing to play gives the delusion of hard mode.