Depends on where you live. 2 of my good friends have been full time DJs for 10+ years (no mobiles, just clubs). They are very happy. One thing you learn as a full time DJ is that you don't undercharge.

I'm an opening DJ about 6 hours a week, a full night DJ 2 nights a week, the rest of the time I do lights. It works out to about $35,000 a year. That's 25 hours a week, most people working regular jobs work 40 hours to make less. I could live on that, but I have 2 kids of child support and a needy ex wife. I own my own computer business and work another 10-15 hours a week freelance at $85-100 an hour so it works out nice and I sleep till noon every day.

Sleep till noon everyday???? Man I need another day job to go along with my DJ

But that is true about undercharging.... Which I think I comfortably do because of my full time day job.

I also have 2 other DJs under me that I pay VERY well. If we take on a full gig I usually make sure they are both sufficiently taken care off, even if that means I go home with just gas money. Maybe one day I'll become big time I can charge $1,000.00 per gig and I can walk home with the good money to.

I used to work at Promo Only. Now I run my DJ company full-time. I do sales and planning for corporate gigs and weddings, and manage 23 DJs. I spin 3-5 days per week. 2 bar gigs plus weddings and other random gigs. Can't see ever going back to a 9-5.

25 DJs? Wow. All there bookings go through you and you keep a percentage or do you let them handle the gigs and they carry the DJ companies name?

I have my own orange business.

LOL

I slang rocks......

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Business is good

Desk Jockey by day
Disc Jockey on the weekend
The primary makes me appreciate the latter very much

I don't actually own the company, I am the Director of Operations (aka #2 in line). We charge what we charge and the DJs are all 1099 contractors. Pay is based on talent, versatility, experience, and other factors.

Right now im Djing thurs fri and sat night. Ive got a lineup of holiday gigs lined up at other clubs. I do an after hours guest set at an after hours bar whenever i feel like showing up. Im co-owner of a Bling Kiosk in the mall, i have a 9-5 programming computer software, im going to school part time to get my M.B.A, and possibly a legal degree after that. And Im thinking about trying out as small forward for the new orleans horents, i hear their hiring and i need another small part time job to stack a little cash on the side LOL

im on call with a construction company and i work at the auto auction wednesdays, need to find something else

lol @ trying out for the hornets.

I work for a architectural firm it's interesting but need more of a challenge. I am also managing the whole import/export division side of the business. The only thing I like about it is the hours 7am-3pm Mon-Thurs and no weekends.

The bad thing is that now a days I cant wait to get the fuck outta here I got clocks with different times zones and can see the time anywhere I turn to in my office, making my day much slower and longer. FML

I'm a prostitute/dancer

I'm a seafood manager at a grocery store sun-mon-tue-thu-sat, I spin 9-2 at a bar on Thursday nights, and every other Saturday 10-2. I do ok, but I'm always buying stuff.

Im a drafter/designer for a civil engineering firm.

I'm a Fire Fighter full time and I work part time for Continental Airlines.

Help Desk , Mon-Friday with some weekends. Saturdays I have a regular restaurant/bar gig that provides me with a little extra money and I'm open to mobile events as well. I tried DJing during the week, but I'm too tired the next day at work, so if it's not good money then I'll pass.

I work at a Radio station full time by day (Have to make my college degree earn its money back) and then DJ Thurs - Saturday. I like the idea of keeping it within the music/entertainment industry somewhat, keeps me interested, although Ive recently switched from the production/onair side (I worked that through college, and their was no full time work avaiable) to the sales side which Im not feeling too much. I make about 60-65k a year which is pretty damn good for a 24 year old in this economy.

OB that's my thought exactly, having a job that relates to something that involves music. I can just imagine how doing something you love and enjoy will have time flying by.

i'm a college student so at long as it pays my gas, phone and keeps my chicken-head off my back for not having a 9-5 it's all good..... i spin Thursdays and fridays.. i make 200 a night thats 400 a week...

she gets pissed because she busts her ass at work only to make less money than me, and to top it off i only work 7 hours a week.... oh the irony.... so i told her my equipment is there when i'm not using it, learn it. she gave up 30 min into the lecture. she never even got to touch the turntable.

proffessional pipe layer full time.girls love it.no time for anything else.

Guitar center pro audio sales and college student

Full-time student, and I dj 2-3 times weekly. I worked out a deal w/ my apt complex, where I got comped rent for dj'ing pool parties.

I'd say life is pretty good :)

peace

I NEED DETAILS ON HOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN....im moving into a new apartment soon and my bank acct is gonna take a HIT....i figure since now i can attach my name to a happenin nightspot downtown mabye i can pull that move to!!!

I got lucky because everybody in the office knew I was a dj, and when they threw a party it was a no brainer for them to holla at me.. When we started talking money, I just thought to myself "why not comp my rent?" It's a win for the property manager, because they aren't having to spend any cash on a DJ, and they let the employees of the complex stay there free anyways, so it's kinda like I work here... I just worked out a deal to where every appearance gets me a months free rent.

I'd recommend finding out how many units are leased, and if they're not at or near 100% show them how booking you to dj events for their property can and WILL fill up all of the units (or at least get them more leases than they have) lol

Summers gonna be long one, let me know how it works out for you dude!

Peace

i'm a sound engineer, which is really running sound for bands a few times a month, and spending the other 90% doing random shit. there's actually two sound guys, and i'm the second stringer (lol).

i got weekends off so still trying get dem weekend gigs.

C.O.

great job man how long u been in that line of work?

Federal Police Officer. I work a 4/3, 3/4 schedule so I get a lot of days off, including Friday and Saturday.

I.T. manager by day, Dj by night. I do mixshows on air Mon-Fri. Promo meetings every Tuesday during he day. Club gigs on Fri and Sat nights. Work lets me go to the stations for promo meetings as long as when they do charity events I provide the music. It's a pay off.

and a sick pension

almost 7 yrs...Can't beat it.
State Bennies among other perks like being able to swap my shift off to someone so I can fulfill my Gig obligations

5days on, 3 off. 4 on 4 off when i swap

and the pension!!!
alot of people are living in the now and not thinking about retirement

Yea pension making headlines now that everyone is losing out on their 401Ks

Much of the general public hates me now...I feel bad for 'em but they can sign up if they're up for it ;o)

hey if you get money taken out of your pay for your future there is nothing wrong with that.

I don't think you understand...I get half of my highest 3 years for the rest of my life.

For example, if my highest 3 yrs (any 3) average 90grand, I get 45grand a year...forever (plus cost of living increases). I can have any other form of income and still get my pension.

Mine is the same way, called the hi-3

yea i know how pensions work your not runnning the drive through at bk if you have a good job you should get a pension

I DJ.

I'm a theoretical physicist now but I used to be a professional dj. No, that's not a joke.

Good to see lots of peeps keepin' it real in this thread. I used to work at a radio station full time, them part time, then we got hit with a format change and that was the end of it. I work at Walgreens 50 to 60 hours a week and dj whenever I can.

teaching English and running my own school in Shanghai

that explains your total lack of comprehension when it comes to basic common sence LOL

I work for an environmental consulting firm during the week, doing graphic design and marketing.

I also DJ at a big Casino every Saturday and some Fridays, and pick up other random gigs here and there on a weeknight or an off Friday. I had a 3-year residency at a big club in Seattle, but the owners sold it recently and the new owners have left it dormant. There went my rad holiday bookings! I am not really networked with most of the promoter crews now since I had been exclusive there, and an employee of the venue itself. So I am on the grind again for profile gigs.

I would love to get into either radio mixing or video remix production, and will do so one of these days. My oldest kid is starting middle school and the wife just started a new job, plus I am balls-deep in Ableton tutorials right now, so it may be a few before I reach these goals lol.

I may not have any common sence, but I do have common sense.

Nice.

Yep, that's me too (sort of), i work for my local council 9-5, monday-friday, and recently been getting mobile gigs every now and again. only did my first gig in may this year

I fix slot machines at the local casino .. shift work has me all over the place ... but when my weekends are free i'm spinnin' at a club fridays and weddings/staggette parties on saturdays .. always good times !

I'm a personal trainer and strength/conditioning coach by trade. Got a few student bar jobs lined up but that's about it for now.

electrician by day ( when i want, self employed) and dj mon,wed,thurs,fri,sat every week

LMAO! I was looking at that like SMH......

Senior LAN Technician. Do gigs when they pop up on the weekend. Mad busy will showing the house on the market and all.

I want to become a Jukebox repairman. Vinyl 45's only.

They still make em? I want one sooo bad just to have around in my house but I can't find them anywhere in working condition.

www.hammacher.com

Make? No... You'd have to find one on ebay, and when I move, I'm DEFINITELY going to get one....

Just to have.

Nah, not the old Wurlitzers, but something like

lh4.ggpht.com

im a pro sack scratcher

No threadjack: @johnnym when i was a kid my grandmother owned a resturant with a juke box in it. I was totally amazed and fascinated by that thing. I used to make 5 bucks a day busing tables as kid and i would spend 1 dollar on the jukebox everyday. Keep in mind it was .10 per song in the 1970's

so ten songs a day?

^^^ yep everyday after work or if it was slow.

(con't No Threadjack) @craigmac - My father used to bring me to the barbershop for my 1st cuts, and I was always crying. They used to start up the Jukebox to hold my attention. Watching the mechanism put a record on the platter and make music totally shut me up. It was a jukebox like this --->> elitechoice.org. I was mad when they started making the ones which didn't show the mechanisms.

Man jukeboxes used to almost seem magical to me. I would be totally captivated by that thing (the ones with the 45's of course).

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Systems analyst / in-house help desk for a TV commercial broker.
$24/hr, full benefits, paid vacation/sick time/ personal days.
It was hard finding any IT work for the last year and I was working for a company that cleans, trashes out, inspects, does minor lawn work, etc for Bank of America's repo homes. Some of the dirtiest work I've ever done. Dead animals in the house, human feces on the floor, mold, etc. All for a whopping $12/hr with no benefits. So happy with my new job now :)
All my DJ work has been mobile, mostly weddings.

I hear they really wreck those repo homes...