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How much money?
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Considering there are
School Dances
High School Reunions
Birthday Parties
Bubble Parties
Wedding Receptions
Anniversary Parties
Bowling alley gigs
Bar work for a DJ
Why couldn't a professional DJ pull in $900 weekly? Would it really be that hard to do?
School Dances
High School Reunions
Birthday Parties
Bubble Parties
Wedding Receptions
Anniversary Parties
Bowling alley gigs
Bar work for a DJ
Why couldn't a professional DJ pull in $900 weekly? Would it really be that hard to do?
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Kirby Ball
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That's a list of types of events. That's not any kind of "documentation" or "computations." C'mon big guy, show us charts, graphs, research. You can't do it, because you made up a number that sounded good to you.
$50,000 is not a number that sounded good to me it was a realistic number that I felt any full time professional DJ should be able to attain if he took this profession seriously. 2 to 3 parties a week is not something that a professional dj should not be able to accomplish.
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Kirby Ball
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Joaquin, you are something. You should work on getting the pages of your website to load faster instead of spending all your time here. 
Cesar - WHY do you care? Call yourself a professional and be done with it. The others here will call themselves professional if they see fit. Still doesn't mean anything. You are still looking for a TITLE that magically conveys some greatness upon you. Isn't going to happen.
The lawyer analogy doesn't work because if they don't pass the test, they aren't a lawyer period, let alone a professional. DJs don't have that as an issue or barrier, same as professional ice cream servers. Call yourself a DJ Specialist, "in the DJ business", "my occupation is DJ", whatever .. only thing that matters is how you are perceived by your clients, the public, and your peers, and you're not doing so hot on the last one at this point.
The lawyer analogy doesn't work because if they don't pass the test, they aren't a lawyer period, let alone a professional. DJs don't have that as an issue or barrier, same as professional ice cream servers. Call yourself a DJ Specialist, "in the DJ business", "my occupation is DJ", whatever .. only thing that matters is how you are perceived by your clients, the public, and your peers, and you're not doing so hot on the last one at this point.
I don't know how many weeks are in a year in CA, but here there is only 52. 52 x 900 is $46,800, which doesn't even put revenue at $50,000, let alone income. So they couldn't possibly be a professional DJ
Someone that does that many shows should understand math a little better.
Surely a Professional DJ would have some weeks where he made more then 900 in the week, But I understand why you can not figure that out.
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Kirby Ball
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I'm wondering why you don't have a nice close up picture of yourself on your website, you're a handsome man. Why do you have really old thank you notes on your site. I think the last one was around 2007?
You haven't defined a life style. Some people live happy as a clam on an income or $40k and others want 10 times that amount and still seem to struggle.
I think it has more to do with the potential of the profession - because, there are many ways to skin a cat but, in the end you still have only cat meat. Most DJs seem to top out in the low 6 figures. Even multi-ops with over a million in gross revenues will end up providing only a low 6 figure income to their owners.
so I am assuming if money is all that makes someone a professional, you come to every client meeting armed with the previous years tax returns and nothing else right?
It doesn't have anything to do with lifestyle but more on what is the minumum amout of business a Professional DJ should strive for if indeed he enjoys his profession. I was thinking a Professional Dj would want to at least work 2 to 3 times a week at least making a minimum 900 a week to come up roughly with that $50,000 figure.
Jeff let's let the reader pondering his status decide if it is $50,000 after expenses or before. At least he hit the $50,000 mark which should set him apart from the Non Professionals he might come in contact with.
Proformance - My experience leads me to agree with your low six figure income example.
Jeff let's let the reader pondering his status decide if it is $50,000 after expenses or before. At least he hit the $50,000 mark which should set him apart from the Non Professionals he might come in contact with.
Proformance - My experience leads me to agree with your low six figure income example.
No Sightandsounds
It means coming to the meeting at the time a client picked instead of you telling him it had to be after you got off your other job.
It meant signing the contract and not deciding to retire or change professions one year down the road.
It meant knowing that you wouldn't have to worry about your other job calling you in on a day you had a event scheduled.
Are you saying Money is not a indicator of someones Professional status?
It means coming to the meeting at the time a client picked instead of you telling him it had to be after you got off your other job.
It meant signing the contract and not deciding to retire or change professions one year down the road.
It meant knowing that you wouldn't have to worry about your other job calling you in on a day you had a event scheduled.
Are you saying Money is not a indicator of someones Professional status?
You know that is impossible to do but as a full time Professional DJ I am available any time as long as I am not doing a event. Now that is something a client can understand as compared to let me check with my boss and see if I can meet you.
Actually, no it isnt impossible to do.....right now, it is 2:00 am where I am, and I just finished a facebook messenger consultation with a potential client, and have a skype call with another one in about 30 minutes.....
you see, I think people who want to run around claim they are "full time", yet set office and call hours are completely unprofessional. If you are "full time", you are there for the client, no matter what.
This notion of slapping a random figure on something and calling it professional is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. A professional is something who has the knowledge and trained to a job, and the skills and know how on when and where to get customer and how to treat those customers....money has NOTHING to do with it.
You keep telling yourself that.
Remember the word "Livlihood" and contemplate that.
Where did you return from?
Remember the word "Livlihood" and contemplate that.
Where did you return from?
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