Double Bass Blues: A musician-adjunct tackles math

by Jason Heath One would have to be crazy to go into music for the money. Dozens of career paths spring to mind (medicine, law, web development, programming, engineering, etc.) that have great salaries and benefits and ample opportunities for employment. Music careers by and large lack these great benefits. Cream-of-the-crop jobs in the world of music (outside of international soloists) pay what would be considered a fairly pedestrian wage in many other fields. This basic assumption underlies everything else I discuss here. I know that we musicians did not go into this profession for the money, and the purpose […]