 What's up everybody once again, it's Brand Man Shawn and this video right here, this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself. Now this clip of Oren Major, my interview with Oren Major is a part that I think is not only an inspiration but really even bigger than that. It's something that's super practical in a way that you should think about going from your day job to a full-time musician and I'll give a little bit of backstory at the end. It's the matwork. Like I said with the whole playlist and system and all that, there's way too possible to get paid and not really have like a fan base. Like if you're building from the ground up then I would definitely say go that route like find these people who can get your music out there because now while you're gaining fans you're still getting revenue too, you know what I mean? And if your music is good then they're going to stay fans so those people are going to continue to come and check for your music regardless on if you're on a playlist or not. So it's too possible, like yeah I would recommend anybody do that. I definitely don't recommend quitting your job, I know a lot of people like just quit and don't have any like you still got to pay bills, you got family you got to take care of or whatever the case may be and you just quit so you can focus on music. I'll never agree with that unless there's some other backworld stuff going on and. Hey man, I agree with that 100% man, I'm much more of a practical person, you know I think people spend a lot of time trying to create a great story so they can say they were homeless or something at one point in time. Man, I don't want to be homeless bro. Like I think about it like, yeah you could definitely like, I'm more, I will risk my lifestyle so that I can have more time to build but you know what I mean, like I said I had quit my job but I wasn't really making that much money, I was just making enough to replace the job, like I couldn't do anything, I couldn't go party or live like, yo I'm making money off of music, it's like nah I ain't got no money but I made money to pay the bills. Exactly, so now you can focus on doubling that money. Yeah, yeah and that's the thing every time I think about like it gets hard sometimes anybody in this type of industry knows like I get to thinking like maybe I should get a part-time or maybe I should get a job on the weekends or something but then every time I think like that I go back to okay I'm taking away time that I could be using like I feel like I'm being lazy if I just gonna get a job. Yep. At this point I feel like I could figure out how to make that money for myself or do some things, I tell people use all their strengths, well Geronics told me that and now I'm telling other people to like use all your strengths like because I didn't I couldn't afford like engineering, I couldn't afford mixing, I couldn't afford people to produce beats for me and all that stuff so that's what that's what had me like doing all that stuff myself, I learned from like YouTube and things and going to studios and seeing people do it and shit like people like well shit use those skills to bring in more revenue while you're doing that, if you love music why not make sure somebody in the time that you have if you need some money or shoot some of these videos and all that stuff so I still hate mixing for people, I still won't do that with but any other little thing I could do I thought it would be. It's the mat work. Alright so Warren is at a point where he's making 20k alone just off of streaming or at least that's what he did made right make but and there's so many other aspects of making music but when he did that and not even that that's a lot of money when you talk about just living throughout an entire year but even when he did quit his job he was just making a little bit of check off of streaming but it was a one step at a time thing so the practicality of thinking hey I'm gonna make money off of streaming first and that's what we discussed a little bit before that clip started right do you think that streaming is the the first place to start and it is one of the best places to start for a lot of artists when you're doing a job right one of the best things you can do is just get on the computer and build your streaming because you don't have the opportunity to tour the time to tour necessarily go out the house and get into all these other environments but if you can get your streaming check up just to replace your your income now depends on how much money you make you might be making 50-60k a year then it might be a harder for you to adjust your lifestyle if you're living out like that but if you're working at a especially like what a minimum wage job then you can probably replace that with streaming with some hard work and taking a little bit of time so if you do that and focus on that first and now you're just in the industry all the time after that right you i'm i'm i'm making my money off of music and now i can use my strengths as jarenica said to make other money and but stay around these people so that way i'm everything i'm doing energy wise is in one direction even if it's not directly what i want to do i'm working with these people that i might want to work with in the future you put myself in position for other opportunities and then i'm still working on my stuff at the same time so that's something to keep in mind it's definitely a practical way that i've seen a lot of people move and i'm all about practicality you know this whole burn all your bridges all the time just and just leave and not have any money to pay for your next month of food cool it's a great story but you know i don't recommend it other than that though if you want to check out this entire interview you can check it out at bramannnetwork.com because i saw myself and if you like this video go ahead and like button if you like it might as well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe button