lewdite

Do you ever listen to peoples' bootleg remixes of your work?

Hey just a heads up, I've been working as a professional composer / mixer / performing musician for over a decade and that whole "fight for your life" thing never goes away, even once you're involved with A+ teir creative ad firms and fortune 100 companies or major labels. Music is always last priority in the budget and creative clients are rarely open to your musical expertise. Just a heads up, it really doesn't ever get easier (unless you become a famous performer selling out concert halls around the globe) and rent becomes a very imposing part of your life, especially as a pianist because where the fuck are you supposed to move your grand piano(s) if you can't make your rent/mortgage?

I'm starting my MBA in the fall. May fortune guide you on your journey... And may you manage a portfolio that keeps your music biz afloat like mine did, even working 50-60 hrs a week. Understand that you choose that path for self-satisfaction, not for monetary success. Good luck!

Getting rid of it was a cheap political trick for short term benefits but long term losses. If we lose control of IP, our economy is fucked. We don't make things and we don't LIKE to make things.

First I want to say thank you for doing this AMA, I know first hand how difficult GP can be. What foods do they suggest you eat? When did you develop the GP? Can you remember a time when you felt completely "normal?" How long ago was that and how do you feel now as a percentage of how you felt then? I'm sorry you have to suffer :(

Wow, what you are going through must be impossibly difficult. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope you find happiness and comfort in being YOURSELF one day, uninhibited by what others may think of you. In ancient society and certainly before Mohammed, hermaphroditism was seen as a Divine blessing, to possess the strength and wisdom of both genders. I hope you keep that in mind.