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So, like many of us, I'm looking for extra $$$. In the past, I've limited myself to weddings - cause that my comfort zone. Anyways, I saw this listing on craigslist:
DJ's
Must have your own top hit music, plug laptop into existing system,
hours of operation 10pm - 3:30am $75.00 per night

$75 for 5 and half hours? WTF? Not worth it to me - your thoughts?

-DJ Joe
 
So, like many of us, I'm looking for extra $$$. In the past, I've limited myself to weddings - cause that my comfort zone. Anyways, I saw this listing on craigslist:
DJ's
Must have your own top hit music, plug laptop into existing system,
hours of operation 10pm - 3:30am $75.00 per night

$75 for 5 and half hours? WTF? Not worth it to me - your thoughts?

-DJ Joe


Think about it this way... at $75 dollars for 5.5 hours of work... you're looking at being paid $13.63 an hour just to bring your laptop and music.... it's not like you're toting in your heavy azz speakers and having to do a complete setup.... one y-connector cable and setup is done..... press play and collect your pay.

I would negociate a bit higher like maybe $100.00 plus a share in the tips or door take if there is one.
 
I do two church gigs every week. $75 for 4 hours.

My fiance hates me because I make nearly $20/hr doing something I love while she only makes $15/hr at her "real" job.

Its all in how you look at it. *lol*

Mike
 
Does the gig include dinner and all the beer you can drink? :D

Joe, no offense intended but I'd have to be very desparate for $75.00 to stand in a bar and spin music for 5 1/2 hours. :eek:

They'll find somebody, though. The wannabes with laptops and Limewire will be falling over each other to get in there. :)
 
I might do it occasionally on a weeknight but weekends are valuable and have a much higher rate than $75.00. I would also want to check out the "existing soundsystem" before I committed

It looks like they are looking for a kid with no experience and alot of music
 
Considering that I'm unemployed from any "real" job at the moment, I'd consider taking it if it's a Monday-Thursday gig and they'd let me bring CDs and a CD player. 4 nights/week at $75/night is $1200/month. Like others, I'd probably try to negotiate for $100/night and tips.
 
Due to the way unemployment and the economy is nowadays somebody will eventually do it eventhough it does sound crazy and a waste of time.
 
Fair wage, if this is a bar gig.

I've done tons of bars in my day, and the tips are where you make yer money, not the pay. I would usually walk out with a rather nice wad of cash (not to mention a nice buzz, and a few phone numbers) ;) :)
 
DJ's
Must have your own top hit music, plug laptop into existing system,
hours of operation 10pm - 3:30am $75.00 per night

$75 for 5 and half hours? WTF? Not worth it to me - your thoughts?

-DJ Joe


Forgetting the pay ( which is forgettable anyway), you will note that they want you to hook into the house system. If it happens to bite, guess who's reputation is going to take the hit? Been there, done that, learned my lesson.

Also, a heads up: I haven't seen the ad, but it sounds suspiciously like an ad I've seen for a place called Tiffany's not super far from you. If that is the venue- RUN! They go through a DJ every few weeks, and one reason is that they sometimes decide not to pay you if they don't think the night was good enough, or for other reasons. They are kind of infamous, and I know a few who have worked there.
 
Think about it this way... at $75 dollars for 5.5 hours of work... you're looking at being paid $13.63 an hour just to bring your laptop and music.... it's not like you're toting in your heavy azz speakers and having to do a complete setup.... one y-connector cable and setup is done..... press play and collect your pay.

I would negociate a bit higher like maybe $100.00 plus a share in the tips or door take if there is one.

...spoken like a true Bride's Choice recipient...lol

I guess if you leech/steal music, probably the software as well, operate without paying taxes, without proper/any insurance, and without any need to profit as a legitimate business...it is a sweet deal, in the year 1981.

Participate in that insulting relationship and I wish you nothing but aggravation and misery. notlol
 
...spoken like a true Bride's Choice recipient...lol

I guess if you leech/steal music, probably the software as well, operate without paying taxes, without proper/any insurance, and without any need to profit as a legitimate business...it is a sweet deal, in the 1981.

Participate in that insulting relationship and I wish you nothing but aggravation and misery. notlol

I'm not real sure what that was suppose to mean...

In these economic times a week day gig like this where all ya have to do is lug in a laptop and hook up... seems like gold to me... considering gigs where you have to lug all your equipment for say a karaoke gig is not much higher up the pay scale around my part of the woods. Best pay around here for that would be $175.00 and you have to bring your own.
 
There is a shocker.

You swim in a cess poll you will likely bump into a turd...or 50!


I do both bar venues and events. Maybe 35-50 events in a year, and over 250 bar shows. been doing it for years and have YET to be burned for money in a bar.

That doesn't mean it hasn't been tried - only once or twice- but I always got paid, and the people were usually pretty respectful- maybe because of the income that I brought in- I don't know.

I'm thinking that you have been burned more than the average bear? :sqerr:
 
Think about this another way.... there is zero setup time (unless you count the 2 minutes it takes to plug your laptop in and turn iton), zero tear down time (again see above), you get paid better than most do in a factory and you get to party and get tipped.

Joe: Why would your companies rep. be at risk... for this gig would you really have to say what company you own?

Listen I'm all for getting as much as I can per gig... and something as sleezy easy as this is a no brainer... unless of course the owners are sleezy as Joe sugests some are.

Still worth a look see at the very least.
 
Does the gig include dinner and all the beer you can drink? :D

Joe, no offense intended but I'd have to be very desparate for $75.00 to stand in a bar and spin music for 5 1/2 hours. :eek:

They'll find somebody, though. The wannabes with laptops and Limewire will be falling over each other to get in there. :)

Here's another take: You're a college kid; you BUY all the newest tunes from iTunes, Wally-world, whatever; you'd be at the bar ANYWAY; and now someone wants to PAY YOU $75.00 to hang out, play music, and talk to the pretty girls...

Sounds like a pretty sweet gig for someone... Is it really taking money away from any of us??

Just saying... Your "No way I'd do that gig" is someone else's "Hey, I'm gonna get paid to hit on the hotties!" :sqcool:
 
...spoken like a true Bride's Choice recipient...lol

I guess if you leech/steal music, probably the software as well, operate without paying taxes, without proper/any insurance, and without any need to profit as a legitimate business...it is a sweet deal, in the 1981.

Participate in that insulting relationship and I wish you nothing but aggravation and misery. notlol

I have bought all my equipment legally, I pay taxes, I have proper insurance (more than any of you guys carry I am sure), and I profit from it. But who cares about fulltimers anyway?

Mike
 
I'm not real sure what that was suppose to mean....
Then I will attempt to clarify"

...spoken like a true Bride's Choice recipient...lol
LOL means "laughing out loud" as to signify it was a joke.

...I guess if you leech/steal music, probably the software as well, operate without paying taxes, without proper/any insurance, and without any need to profit as a legitimate business...it is a sweet deal, in the year 1981.
The only way to justify performing for the offered rate is if you have no expenses, like a legitimate music library, income and/or business taxes, insurance expense, all which indicating either an illegitimate operation and/or an individual with no capacity to understand what things cost.

You would be hard presses to RENT a laptop for $75 a day, let alone one with a legal music library and legal software to play it..and we haven't even begun to consider any human compensation.

In 2009, the offer is most likely acceptable, only, to an unprofessional, music leeching, bottom feeding, hack.

Is that clear enough.

...Participate in that insulting relationship and I wish you nothing but aggravation and misery.
Take the job and I hope you suffer the misery and aggravation that results from desperation, greed, and laziness. Gigs that begin from a position of disrespect, rarely get better.

Clear?

...notlol
NOT KIDDING


In these economic times a week day gig like this where all ya have to do is lug in a laptop and hook up... seems like gold to me...
Aim low hit low. Sad, pitiful, horrible, really.

...considering gigs where you have to lug all your equipment for say a karaoke gig is not much higher up the pay scale around my part of the woods. Best pay around here for that would be $175.00 and you have to bring your own.
Do you see a possible causal relationship between accepting insulting pay and the markets valuation of your trade/skill, assuming you have some?
 
Some people are above us Rob -- but then they still hang in the cesspool... ;)
Wrong, wrong, and wrong.

If you feel inferior, that has nothing to do with others.

The music theives are no different than software theives, care to debate that Rickster?