Comments on: Tough Times for Freelancers? http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2009/03/tough-times-for-freelancers/ Rock reviews, rock articles & rock interviews from the Ultimate Rock'n'Roll Library Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Hughes http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2009/03/tough-times-for-freelancers/#comment-174 David Hughes Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:02:53 +0000 http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/?p=150#comment-174 Leyla: I totally agree with you. The first thing I always says to folk thinking of clearing their dusty corners is - do you really want to be rid of all this stuff.....it will a lot more expensive to get any of it back again (especially if you took R&T Exchange prices!!) On the other hand, as we all get unstoppably older, we should also ask the question - what will our dependents do with all this stuff once we're gone. If the answer is - junk it at the tip, then there may a case for enjoying its profits now, especially if, like so many freelancers I've come across, there is no lucrative pension scheme awaiting when the work runs out. All that said, your 'contended' presumably should have been contented, and if you're contented, do nothing to alter that blissful state! Leyla: I totally agree with you. The first thing I always says to folk thinking of clearing their dusty corners is – do you really want to be rid of all this stuff…..it will a lot more expensive to get any of it back again (especially if you took R&T Exchange prices!!) On the other hand, as we all get unstoppably older, we should also ask the question – what will our dependents do with all this stuff once we’re gone. If the answer is – junk it at the tip, then there may a case for enjoying its profits now, especially if, like so many freelancers I’ve come across, there is no lucrative pension scheme awaiting when the work runs out.

All that said, your ‘contended’ presumably should have been contented, and if you’re contented, do nothing to alter that blissful state!

]]> By: Leyla Sanai http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/2009/03/tough-times-for-freelancers/#comment-127 Leyla Sanai Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:31:47 +0000 http://www.rocksbackpagesblogs.com/?p=150#comment-127 Thanks for the offer, David. I can objectively see the sense in getting rid of the junk, but when it comes to it, I'm attached to my junk; it's part of my history. I sold a few of my early new wave records in the old Record and Tape Exchange in Camden Town in the early '80s, and now, despite a flat full of hoarded stuff, I kinda wish I'd held onto them. I still love the nostalgia that surrounds looking at garish coloured vinyl records - it brings back that teenage rush of being one of the relative few to have discovered a band before they hit the big time. I know I'm just being stubborn. I can barely even access my piles of records and cassettes as the creeping accumulation of more junk has wedged them against the wall, and if I attempt to flick through them, all hell (and 20 years of dust, and several precariously balanced paintings) will break loose. Call me an impractical old git. But I'm a contended impractical old git :-) Thanks for the offer, David. I can objectively see the sense in getting rid of the junk, but when it comes to it, I’m attached to my junk; it’s part of my history. I sold a few of my early new wave records in the old Record and Tape Exchange in Camden Town in the early ’80s, and now, despite a flat full of hoarded stuff, I kinda wish I’d held onto them.

I still love the nostalgia that surrounds looking at garish coloured vinyl records – it brings back that teenage rush of being one of the relative few to have discovered a band before they hit the big time.

I know I’m just being stubborn. I can barely even access my piles of records and cassettes as the creeping accumulation of more junk has wedged them against the wall, and if I attempt to flick through them, all hell (and 20 years of dust, and several precariously balanced paintings) will break loose.

Call me an impractical old git. But I’m a contended impractical old git :-)

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