The pursuit of happiness

So you're basically trying to live off playing with your band or am I missing something here? On what scale are you playing at the moment and what genre?

I've had it pretty easy with others expectations of me going into the field of music, people actually encourage me and give me lots of support to do it because they think I'm very skilled at it and many think that I've chosen right. I really want to work with music but I just don't know what I want to do in music and what I'm really capable of. There are many things that tempt me but the problems I have with the muscles in my back, neck and arms have started to make me worried. Last year I over-practiced on the guitar and got repetitive strain injuries in both my arms and fingers (I've had neck/back problems since I wasa kid). After that I took a break and started playing the piano as main instrument instead not long after. I haven't had so much problems after my break but now the symptoms keep coming up (slight pains and stiffness) even though I've been sure that I've practiced correctly, and I tend to get pains from practically nothing sometimes, just like I'm an old man or something. I want to take a break to think over everything/recover, but what sucks is that the aesthetic program I'm going to now in school is coming into it's last phases and we have this ending project where we produce somewhat of a theater and that means that I have to play even though I feel I need to take a break to recover from my injuries completely. I feel screwed in that sense.

Luckily, here in Sweden education isn't that very expensive and it'd never really be too late to start changing your mind (not in all cases I guess but most). So if I want to I could still study to become a psychiatrist if I want to (which is my second line of work I want to do if I'm not aiming for a musical career).

Oh well, enough of my rabble, if you feel it's too late to turn back don't think about it any more and give what you're doing now the best because it's what you've chosen and you just got to make the best of it. What people regard as successful always differ from person to person and in the field of music success can mean many things. I feel as long as I can live off my work with music (whatever it may be) I'm successful. What level of success are you aiming for though?

Jam it back in, in the dark.