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I just turned 38, should I still love my job or should I be looking for a 9 to 5?
 
Posté Fri 21 Sep 07 @ 12:25 pm
if your happy and the crowds are happy why change...i've been djing for 33 years and soon as i stop enjoying it or when i feel the crowds are'nt, thats when i'll pack it in...

Tayla

 
Sort of depends on what groups you play for.
If you are hidden in a club booth, it will hardly matter.
If you are doing kids dances it might mean more.
I'm 52 and still do all age groups, but the same things I wonder about.
Play what they want to hear and it won't really matter.

BTW, I have you on the map in NC, not CT.
If you want that fixed, pm me the coordinates with this ip utility.
http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm
 
you're only as old as whoever you're feeling up.

there have been times when i have thought i was starting to get there. i just figure that if there was an easier way to for someone as lazy as me to make this kind of money with less work then i would have found it by now.
besides that - its ADDICTIVE. who needs crack when you can have a full dance floor.

 
Im turning 49 in October...I really dont care how old I am.I dont do night clubs but I am a moble DJ and do most of my gigs for all groups who are having an event at the restaurant.I work full time elsewhere and do this on the side and it makes up for the overtime my fulltime job lacks.
Outside deck is the most fun where I can do video also weather permitting.Sometimes a free show on the boardwalk for the seniors and passerbys walking through.A good friend of mine who sings stops in and does a few sets just for fun.
I guess I will play until I cant carry the equipment no more! Its to much fun!
also with the excellent support from everyone here..I feel Im never alone anyways.
Cant put a price on that!
 
no keep showin' the young pups what it's like to have a snoop jobby job , and how to do it right
 
45 here....and still going strong. If you love it never stop, I plan on mixing house in the old folks home when I am in my 70s.
 
TearEmUp wrote :
I plan on mixing house in the old folks home when I am in my 70s.


Hehe.. That the spirit:) mates
 
Go to a DJ Times Expo and your question will be answered;)
 
I'm 38 and the people I play music for a almost half my age most of the time. I think of myself as 38 years young. Plus if you look at my blog, I don't look anywhere near it. You are as young as you feel!
 
I'm 42 and still having fun,I'm afraid that if I do quit maybe I will feel old? LOL P@40
 
I am 46, over weight, balding wear big 80's style glasses and find it is harder and harder to get club gigs (especially in California where they always want you to send in photos) because of my looks (or lack thereof) rather than my age.

My programming and mixing are superior to most of the younger jocks here in southern california. The BIGGESTr negative out here is that i actually want to be PAID to be a dj.....most of the clubs out here either use hip hop promoters (who use their own friends as dj's whether they are really good or not as long as they know the top ten hits this week), they hire the radio station jocks and their friends so they can get the free advertising or they don't pay the dj's because "I have a list of hundreds of Dj' dieing to play here for the exposure"..........

What's really amazing is that most customers think it's cool "that old man can rock the hip hop or house/techno" but it is management that seems to think that the customers care what the dj looks like and even in OC the customers don't give a crap because they are too self absorbed in their own little world to even realize where the Dj both is.

When it comes to a club that truly wants experience. a real format rather just the hit mongers then I will still usually still get the job once they see me work the room, but man is it getting harder and harder to get in to the room to show them!

When I do mobile gigs they don't give a damn how old, how fat, how bald I am, they just want the party rocked!
 
and i thought i was the only old man out here w/the young and the d*** ones i'm 31 going on 42 in dec . i dj and mc in a club where
age are from 16 to 25 maybe 1 or 2 over the age of 30 and i still rock baaaaaaaaaabyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lol
 
41...Still lovin' it...Keep spinnin'...'nuf said =D
 
51 , and still going strong, as long as they want me i will keep on spinning !
 
47 & still ready for DJ-Heaven:-)
 
45 in October and just getting started...!
 
41 , I only know how to play music , it's all my life , I am very glad of being able to live only playing music . I work 11 months a year with no free days in 3 discos (6 months in Mallorca Spain , and 5 months in Austria ) - And my wife is a dj too , she works like me (1 disco in Mallorca and 1 disco in Austria ) In Austria we work in the same disco (one hour each one)
 
I'm 44 - wasn't able to start doing it till I was about 30 - couldn't afford the gear - even now, I haven't done that many gigs professionally in my own right.

Tony Blackburn and David Hamilton are still DJing, albeit on radio - and they must be at least 60!

Jimmy Young was in his mid-70s, I think, when he hung up his headphones at Radio 2!

Even people like jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton can still be heard presenting programmes on radio - he must be at least 80!

Mind you - they might sound out of place presenting the Top 40 or dance music shows - particularly Humphrey Lyttelton, as his speciality is jazz.
 
Wow, a lot of old guys here, pure respect guys! ;)
I will be 30 in october, DJ-ing since 16, will try to keep in there but my own business takes time, I have luck that I DJ only on Saturday :)
 
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