I could write for pages but I will not :)
My biggest achievement in life is providing a living for myself for 3 years, only with a piece of wood with 6 strings :)
I am from Cornwall in the UK and have had tons of low paid jobs ever since leaving school.
I have played the guitar since I was 17, now 37 and had always had an interest in music but never had the confidence to persue it.
For years I was working at a hospital in the radiology department dealing with the sick every day.
Music was my release when I got home from work , but the constant battle with the alarm clock and spending all of my constructive time in someone else's enviroment...the guitar was becoming a secondary interest and my skills were slipping away.
Just because I had to spend my day working for $50 I was losing all I was good at. That had to change!
So I booked a one-way ticket to Asia in 2015 and now I play and teach guitar every day :)
It hasn't been easy and I make way less than $50 a day but it is a living worth scraping for.
The rent is cheap here in Cambodia and a 40hr week isn't necessary just to get by.
Much happier here man :)
I will enclose some photos.
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Peace and love :)
That's amazing! I did travel a lot around Asia and I know how great is there. Before that, I spent sometime in Melbourne and lived with a girl who player hollaops in the streets. We met a guy who was making a really good money playing in Melbourne for some months in the streets and then travelling in Asia. Maybe you could do it too! BTW, I tried a lot to play guitar and I just realized in the end that I'm not able to play it lol but I do admire people who can and I love it listening to old good ones like The Doors, Bowie, Cash and so so so on!
Brilliant :) I have never been to OZ. As I am over 30 the working visa lark stopped me from going, but I am looking into it. Im sure they will need a guitar teacher somewhere.. I would love to play in the streets. When I was younger I always looked at street performers as beggars. A maturing soul always gives you a second opinion on all the things you thought wrong of.. Full respect in what they do. Their passion.
Well you are welcome to come along to my discord I have set up.
Free guitar lessons on there and private one to one lessons with me via the chat :)
Take your time man
Cheers.
I performed a Bowie track not long ago .. his tune from the film Labyrinth.