Here's a little pickme up for you aspiring young people

[Exgeneral]

"When I was younger, my attitude was 'Never give in,'" Seversen said. "Nowadays, my attitude is 'Get real, dumbass.' If I have any advice for all the young aspiring painters, novelists, and rock musicians out there, it's probably that they should quit following their dreams before they rack up a lot of credit-card debt. The sooner you accept your real job, the sooner you can start to build up seniority and get on board with the pension plan."

Experts familiar with the "day job/real job" paradigm shift agree.

"Seversen has just made the most important decision of a non-artist's life," said Gregory Gund, author of Aw, Who'm I Kidding Here? and Learning To Let Go Of The Things That Sustain You. "We all have to face the music sooner or later. You think I wanted to write crappy self-help novels and speak about them at low-rent seminars in the conference rooms of cheap chain hotels?"

Gund continued: "I'll never forget the day I traded in my bass amp for a dot-matrix printer. I sat in the bathtub for about two hours that day, staring at the reflection of my receding hairline in the cold water. Sometimes, I wish I'd plugged that amp in and hauled it into the tub with me. But, hey, we can't all be the next Geddy Lee, right?"

[el_gato]

1. that's funny because

I sold my computer and bought this bad-ass bass amp.
And I didn't sit in the tub and cry about it either.
he he

[Exgeneral]

4. but what about the printer?

did you get an effects pedal for that?

[camero]

2. I don't know about me being a youngun

But "Never give in" has now become a survival mechanism. It's not a bad thing to have really.

Edit: from a poster that has that receding hairline.

[1monster]

3. Wow! I am soo inspired...

Maybe I'll go play with a box of matches in the middle of I-95...
:(

[LastKnight]

5. i adopted the 'get real dumbass' attitude at 14...

hasnt failed me yet.

-LK