Peter Frampton: 55 million streams and I got paid $1700

HoustonSaint68 said

When I retired six years ago, I thought, "Well, my son is involved in music so maybe I'll learn a bit about the music business and play around in it as a second career." So, I went to a couple of conferences and otherwise learned just a little bit about the music business. Then I decided "absolutely no, no thank you, under pain of torture and an excruciating death".

And my first career was in Big Oil.

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I always wanted to be in the music business. After I graduated college I got a job at a record label in Nashville. Typical story, start in the mail room and work your way up. After two promotions I was “artist development coordinator” - and got to see higher up into the company. It wasn’t appealing.

The president of the company left and the new guy didn’t like my boss so he fired him and all four of us that worked for him. My boss was like “sit tight, I’ll be somewhere else soon and I’ll give you a call.”

I said “Nah, I’m going to law school.”