Just a musician

[GhostlyBanjoParticipant 5]

I’m GhostlyBanjo, first name Forrest. I grew up in a great family with an incredible father figure. My family being the opposite of the Hollywood, “Dad dumb, smart independent mom,” really helped me to be the man I am today. I used to always try to be the coolest, the best, and what not, just so the girls would maybe see me as interesting. I was a paladin who’d polish his armor every night, and go to battle the next day defending women, just so I could be someone’s “Knight in Shining Armor.” The battles became tiring; polishing my armor became tedious. I tried to be the cool guy, I took piano lessons, then guitar, so that I could maybe impress the girls around me by being, “that cool guy with the guitar.”

Then, it hit me. I’d never be that cool guy with the guitar. I was always, “too nice.” I became the stereotypical “beta neck-beard”, writing the dark, meaningless poetry and acting deep. I became something I hated, so I dropped all the acts. I’m no longer that loser of a beta, wanting a girlfriend and not getting one. I couldn’t give two steaming dumps about girls. Since then, I’ve lost 80 lbs of pure fat(I weigh 180 now), I’m a much better musician, and a better artist. I also plan on attending University of Toronto next year, and I’m doing it for me. Living without the hope of having a woman has freed me, and I’m glad I’ve done it sooner rather than later. I’m looking forward of being a member of this community of real men, and I’m proud of what I am. I’m sorry I don’t have a better testimony to this, but I feel like it’s a good thing I’ve realized the truth at my younger age.

[Total LeeParticipant 1573]

Hey pal. Forget any chick every looking at you with admiration for practicing and playing a musical instrument or two. I can play five instruments extremely well and their brains are so empty, they will say stuff right infront of you like “I’m turned on by a guy who can spell”. Go f~~~ yourself, bitch. That’s your minimum standard for spreading your legs? I can play a symphony on one hand for her and it won’t even phase her.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

Hey Forrest! Welcome and thanks for joining.

Have you ever noticed how women think EVERYTHING IS “AMAZING” except what men do?

  Those chocolate chip cookies are AMMAAAAAAZING. That cafe latte was AMAAAAZZZING. My BFF is an AMAAAAAAZZING person. She has an AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING personality. Those shoes are AMAAAAAAAAAAZING. That ice cream is AAAAAMMMMAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZING!!!

Then you play Rachmaninov with your eyes closed and she will shrug her f~~~ing shoulders.
To a woman, EVERYTHING is “ammmaaaaazing” except YOU.

I’m pretty virtuoso on the piano, but chicks don’t give a s~~~.
She would be more “impressed” if you were a drug dealer.

So good job not giving a s~~~ about impressing the ladies. You can’t impress idiots. Especially idiots who are impressed by stupid mundane s~~~ and not impressed by stuff that is actually amazing. When I hear a woman say something like: “that’s a really good song” when she’s talking about some Ariana Grande / Nicky Minaj BANG BANG s~~~…. I look at her like she is retarded and say “oh really? Are you an authority? Can you even read music?”.

The answer is always “no”.
Then why are you pretending to know what a “good” song is? as I rub it in her face just how stupid she really sounds.

There is actually a formula for successful tunes in pop music. You know that childhood nagging melody “NYAH.. NYAH… NYAH-NYAH… NYAH”. That is the FIRST tune that children sing and remember. It gets stuck in your head. Pop songs have the same music intervals as “NYAH.. NYAH… NYAH-NYAH… NYAH”. I’m not kidding. If you want to make a catchy tune, make it sound like “NYAH.. NYAH… NYAH-NYAH… NYAH” where the verse is some variations on those 4 notes which are very close together. Then repeat it ad nauseam, and you have a top 40 hit.

That’s what a woman means by “a good song”. Some f~~~ing nagging melody stuck in her head since childhood.
It’s not actually “good”. It just follows a totally predictable formula. Exactly like she does.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[GhostlyBanjoParticipant 5]

Thanks for the welcoming replies!

It feels good to be here. Honestly, I have an alternative to going to Uni, and I’d like to see if it seems like a good plan. My dad works for a Subsea company, DOF Subsea, and they deal mainly with ROV’s (Remote Operated Vehicles). He told me that, not only does operating an ROV pay very well, but I get to travel to wherever the company has an office or a port (They’re a global company). To become that, I can take an 8-week course after I graduate Highschool, and be hired immediately by my father’s company. I’d start out making 40k a year, and by the first five I’d be making 100k, on top of traveling the world.

Would this be a good idea, or would doing it throw my future away by not attending a University?

Also, @Total Lee, What instruments do you play? I play piano, guitar, banjo, and mandolin.

[Total LeeParticipant 1573]

Violin, Cello (least favorite), Guitar, Electric guitar, piano, and drums. No formal training on the drums.

I think University and college are financial traps to get you started on life early in debt, and Im not a believer in controlled education. Go to university later in life if you want to learn something or pass the bar exam to be a lawyer, because there is no real other way to do that, but attend university just for a degree? f~~~ it. it’s better to get really good at something, intern if you have to get started but GET PAID FOR WHAT YOU DO! Open a business. Work for your dad and take the 40-100K. You can bust your ass and get an education while you’re doing that. Your 20s are to kick ass – not throw away. PUT THE MONEY IN THE BANK EARLY IN LIFE. 10K here. 20 K there. The first 100K is the hardest to save, but the best part about it YOU HAVE 100K IN CASH SAVINGS!!!!.

That will put you far ahead of most people. And it’s your “f~~~ you” fund. You should build your “f~~~ you” fund as fast as possible. It gives you an attitude like you can take any job or leave it. Most people keep going to their jobs and working because they really need the money. They are slaves and content with just getting by. You want to build your f~~~ you fund so you can quit a job you don’t like, or tell a terrible boss to go f~~~ himself, and take your time finding a better one without fear. It’s a game changer. Having a “f~~~ you fund” eliminates the fear and you are more confident and less willing to put up with s~~~ from other people. When you really need the money and are working to pay off student loans, you’re just a slave and a hamster on a wheel and you quietly put up with all kinds of s~~~ you normally wouldn’t. You want to get away from that right away. Work for your dad, do alot of traveling (best thing you can do),. get the travel bug out of your system, and if you want to go to school later, you have a nice chunk of change to make those decisions later.

I worked 3 jobs until I was 32. All of my friends were going to school or partying and just working one job. They made me feel like I was a worked too hard and kept telling me I didn’t have a life. None of them uses the degree they earned, and if they did, they work in a bank or some office and they will be doing that same s~~~ for another 20 years. Im laughing in their faces now and am so glad I just ignored them. Now they are in their 40s and realizing they p~~~ed the last 20 years away and now they are starting to take it seriously. You don’t want to be the kind of person who went to school, droned along, paid your bills, married a chick, supported a kid, and then wake up at 45 wondering where the last 2-3 decades went. When you are 45, you want to be able to KNOW EXACTLY where the time went and that you made the most of it. You want to always be able to go to sleep at night being able to say, I did the BEST I COULD WITH THE TIME I HAD.

Get paid and pay yourself first.

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