Hi,
My name is Dan and I'm an internetolholic -- Oops, sorry wrong thread. I'm a 30 year old ex-bar DJ who caught the DJ bug early in life. I was sparked by a friend of mine's father who managed a bar and knew I owned a chit ton of CDs. He had a DJ not show up one night and the rest as they say is history.
I've always loved DJing but as I got older realized the economics of being a bar DJ didn't exactly work in my favor; Most of my pay went on new music to stay current. In my early-mid twenties I got tired of taking demands (ahem, requests) from drunk idiots that were younger than me.
Around that time to also dawned on me how sad it was that the same barflies would sit at the same bar stools and drink their lives away night after night. Lots of these guys had young families and were in the prime of their lives. I'm not one to judge but what the heck are you doing sitting on a bar stool 3-4 nights a week?
Those three factors made me leave the DJ scene. It's kind of funny, my two main bar gigs that I played at for a few years each tore out their DJ booths within a few years after I left. I don't know whether to think I was that crappy of a DJ for they just didn't feel the need for one on a nightly basis after all.

In reality, they probably couldn't find someone young and dumb enough to work for bar DJ pay. It was still a great experience overall though. I had to learn a whole lot more about music and got to meet some pretty interesting characters along the way.
Nowadays, I run this place which is the coolest virtual-bar for DJs on the net if I don't say so myself. I run a couple of other websites though none as successful as ODJT. Hat tip to
Jon on that. He really went all out to bring people people here. I do local & remote PC repair on the side and maintain the back-end/do tech support/sometimes host for several clients. Most months it keeps the lights on but the older I get the more I'm looking for something stable maybe even with a retirement plan -- Damn I'm getting old.
When I get my mitts on some extra cash I'd like to get a little DJ setup to play with at home. I've been thinking now that have a respectfully powerful home theater receiver; I could start out with a basic mixer that accepts two thumb drives and has an RCA out. It's not the same as an amp and big ol' DJ speakers but I'd probably have the cops at my door on a regular basis if I had a true 1,000 Gigawatt DJ setup.
Anyways that's my story and I'm sticking to it.