For Love or Money

**djnotapplicable** · 10-25-2018, 06:19 AM

I don't play in clubs anymore - I am too old. But I also have had both.

The money I make from mobile djing gets the money, but playing on radio is what I do now for free and I love it. There is no reaction from the crowd. Maybe a bit of chat room blurbs, but I still like to know that I am playing live. Maybe not to a lot of heads, but I enjoy it. It satiates my club cravings.

**DJ Bobcat** · 10-25-2018, 07:12 AM

Well... I guess I DJ for the love of it, because I’m NOT really makin’ a ton of money doing it.😄 My situation is probably a little more unusual than most of the members here... I was already OLD before I even started DJing. I started my mobile DJ business after I retired in order to have something to keep me physically and mentally active. Now, four years later, I’m REALLY OLD.😄 The performance part is still enjoyable, if not exactly fun, but the load in/out part is no fun at all. It’s not about the money for me. I make enough from DJing to buy more cool DJ toys, and I’m fine with that. I’m not sure what I’ll do when I can’t handle the physical part anymore. Actually, the mental part may go first.😄

**light-o-matic** · 10-25-2018, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Dix

I am old & cantankerous & for the most part, I just as soon stay home as go out to someone else's party till 11 or 12:00 at night.

I'm getting on toward old and cantankerous and 11-12 at night is when most of the parties I work on are just filling up!
Tomorrow night I'm playing @ 11:30pm and had to get different music to play because it's too early for most of what I play right now.

**KLH** · 10-25-2018, 12:01 PM

All about the music... and the way it makes me feel. And the crowdgasms are awesome too!

**dlove** · 10-26-2018, 04:03 AM

that's all great til you're stuck in a field in the middle of nowhere with a couple of drinks tokens and no 'free' way of getting home

**Rek_Aviles** · 10-26-2018, 10:42 AM

the love of mixing, definitely.

the money I made off of DJing usually went straight to vinyl and equipment and the occasional payout to friend who helped carry crates (I stopped before software became the norm)

**residuum** · 10-26-2018, 11:09 AM

its pretty simple

do it with love and passion, you will then become great

do it for money and become a sheep

**Daniel S** · 10-26-2018, 12:03 PM

For the love...

**Spy** · 10-26-2018, 12:04 PM

I've received payment for my services (ooh, er missus, etc.) but I've never made money from DJ'ing once the costs of buying music (mostly still buy/play vinyl), equipment and transport are taken into account, so by default I must be in it for the love...

BTW, I played my strangest 'gig' just today; I was compering at a care leavers' forum during which I played snatches of tracks for introducing the different speakers (as in orators, not monitors) and did a few small mixes in the breaks (as in pauses between orators, not funky drum solos). I was and wasn't paid for my performance in that it was at work (my actual, paid occupation), which is the 'strange' bit I was referring to earlier.