At this point i have a pretty solid life. Realizing that i decided i want to take advantage of my situation, and build a small studio. I have a room, i'm working on the money. I gave myself a budget of about $5000 to get everything i need; monitoring systems, recording interface and software, i'm even going to treat a room to be acoustically acceptable for the application. i even have potential clients who want me to record and engineer material. next year i hope to put out some actual professional music and maybe start making the big bucks. I've been grinding this whole music thing for close to 5 years, i think i'm about ready to take off.