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cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 11:36 pm

I'm also in my 40s, work 8-5 (and then some) as a scientist by day, mad scientist by night. Fortunately, I'm also programmed to need less sleep than the average person, so most of my music/play time happens after my wife and son go to bed and usually lasts until around somewhere between midnight and 2am. Sometimes, it's only an hour or so, and other times it's 4-5 hours, depending on how tired or motivated I'm feeling. Studio sessions with singers or other collaborators usually happen on the weekends.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:48 am

cryophonik wrote:Fortunately, I'm also programmed to need less sleep than the average person...

Could you send me the code, please? I tried it with 4 hours every night, and after 4 days with 4 hours of sleep, I feel like a zombie...

thomekk · Post by **thomekk** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 1:24 am

Not too much sleep here sometimes.
And yes, there are family and job-obligations too.
Managed to to find the time for music all the years and so it has to be!

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:47 am

I'm GM of a fine-dining restaurant = well over 50hrs per week there

honestly; I grab time in the man-cave studio when I can steal time away from something else i.e. sleep, taking care of the lawn, house-work & my romantic life with my darling (& understanding) wife. I had a couple of days off from work the other week and forgot to eat while in the man-cave . . .

About five years ago (age 50), I had the conversation with myself - what are you gonna DO when you retire ? Golf ? Fishing ? Canasta ? . . . I settled on making music. Since then; I'm perfectly at peace with making it only for me and at whatever schedule Allah allows. It's the journey that fascinates me, not necessarily the production.

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:22 am

I don't know how you all do it, I never had time for a family, though of course I wanted one. Music is my life, but life won't let me make music. So I go through periods of time when I give in to life and it wins and I make no music. Then it builds up, and I explode and I f**k life back in a series of musical orgasms. Just the way it is.

Guess everybody has their own process. Hope it all works out for you.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:34 am

I work for a company that makes MIDI controllers. I spend a lot of my day messing with music software and playing keyboards… very poorly.

I come home and mostly play with my cats, drum machines and modular (often together). No kids, wife is cool. It doesn't suck.
I know what it's like to have zero time for creative efforts, at the time I spent every spare moment recording as many ideas as I could. Now I have more time to focus on the details and I realize that my ideas aren't really worth recording.

…but I have a lot of fun. I consider myself lucky.

JJBiener · Post by **JJBiener** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 6:51 am

I am disabled so my problem isn't time, it's energy and presence of mind. I have a half a dozen or so chronic illnesses that sap nearly every creative impulse from me. That said, I am trying to claw my way back from the abyss and make music again. I have been down in my studio a few times recently and I have a set up where I can make music without getting out of bed (where I spend 85-90% of my life). Despite my best intentions, I bought several new libraries and VST instruments this holiday season with the idea that spending money will get me back into playing more. All it has done so far is take up my time installing them. At least it is getting me in the music mindset.

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:50 am

Its fascinating how everyone fits it all in and I particularly like the fact that justin3am's cat has drum machines

How much time to play