>he's a "musician" who works a "job"

>why aren't you on welfare if you're serious about making music?
what

Its easier these days to work part time than it is to be unemployed.
To be unemployed and get benefits you have to be at the bottom of the pile and desperate.
work p/t enough hours and you can get housing benefits,etc. but still have time to practise.
My day off work today, took my sax to under a motorway bridge and played it loud,being unemployed today is shit, 30 years ago it was easy.