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Are you really doing this for $50? How T F in 2020, and even with a Pandemic going are these bar owners/managers still able to get somebody to show up and do a 4 hour karaoke show for fifty bucks...THAT AMAZES ME.
There really is an endless number of desperate bone heads out there. (No offense to the op...)
My son got $100 for a 2 hour 5 year old birthday party, and he was 10 when that happened, and it was his 2nd time ever deejaying anything.
There really is an endless number of desperate bone heads out there. (No offense to the op...)
My son got $100 for a 2 hour 5 year old birthday party, and he was 10 when that happened, and it was his 2nd time ever deejaying anything.
Sir there are cheap people everywhere. Cheap bar owners, cheap clients on and on. You wouldn't do it for $50 because you don't have to. You can easily get a job paying well over 10x that much. I wouldn't do it either because I don't need money that bad.
I love how people harp on the $50 a night. I see more and more people complaining about going under because there is no work. How they don't know how they will make ends meet because there are no jobs. Then Say " I wouldn't work for that!!!" it is over $10 an hour. Or I could go to work somewhere making $7.20 an hour. What got me started was my son complaining about no more than he was getting paid so he decided to quit and I took it over. Now he is asking me to do the gig's about every week because he has no money. When you have children that you have to feed or bills you have to pay that $50 looks pretty good. Don't get me wrong if I was playing parties or things like that sure I would make more. But these are every week things and lets be honest 7.25 (min wage) x 40 hours = $290 and then subtract your taxes .. 4 nights - about 18 hours for $320 is a little over $17 an hour Plus no taxes ... So I choose to make money instead of Staying home. and you do what you want 
Everyone has their price. A typical "bar job" is usually in the $200-$400 range. Need to make sure you're accounting for the time/costs to acquire music and gear, to prep for an event, to move gear to and from .. $50 for 2 hours at the bar might seem OK until you add the 3+ additional hours and the cost of acquiring music and such .. plus the banked costs of replacing gear as it wears out, travel, etc. That $50 might turn to $8/hr in the end. And now you've set $50 as your "price" to anyone who knows what you'd be getting. It's a vicious circle.I love how people harp on the $50 a night. I see more and more people complaining about going under because there is no work. How they don't know how they will make ends meet because there are no jobs. Then Say " I wouldn't work for that!!!" it is over $10 an hour. Or I could go to work somewhere making $7.20 an hour. What got me started was my son complaining about no more than he was getting paid so he decided to quit and I took it over. Now he is asking me to do the gig's about every week because he has no money. When you have children that you have to feed or bills you have to pay that $50 looks pretty good. Don't get me wrong if I was playing parties or things like that sure I would make more. But these are every week things and lets be honest 7.25 (min wage) x 40 hours = $290 and then subtract your taxes .. 4 nights - about 18 hours for $320 is a little over $17 an hour Plus no taxes ... So I choose to make money instead of Staying home. and you do what you want
well I already had the equipment and such from the karaoke shows. The only added extra would be acquiring the music and currently my son has been using Pandora from his phone. Could keep doing that and they really wouldn't care. only reason I want to improve is for improvement itself. If you start doing things with only money on your mind it stops being fun. Maybe I am not all that worried because I don't have a ton of money tied up in fancy equipment. My whole setup (less the laptop) ran me $800 well one of them. the other ran me about $1500. But it has 2 sets of JBL's that so far was a waste of money. We will see if it gets better after My sound engineer Tells me what wires I must have crossed on them. That is one good thing about having friends that handle huge sound setups they come help me with My small time stuff.