Shroomy if you live in a big city with a lot of churches and your guitar skills are high, look into that avenue.
I make about $1000 USD a month as a contract musician at churches, playing bass.
Typically it?s going to be a mega-church with a budget that wants high quality they can?t get from volunteer musicians or newer, smaller contemporary churches with money behind them.... that?s where you?ll find them be willing to pay some decent money.
Especially now that you?re clean, but even myself, as a functional addict, can do it. Sure I pop some pills on a Sunday, but nobody knows and I try not to think about what a hypocrite I am by looking at it as a job, and not a spiritual service. (I grew up in church so I know the culture, and I still believe in something... just not sure what exactly. But I?m definitely not on the same spiritual wavelength as the other musicians).
Anyway, long story short, if you?re looking for a way to make money with your music, churches are the most viable way to do it. I definitely make more doing that than I ever did doing bar gigs, etc...
On another note, am I the only one who has apostrophes showing up as question marks, and other weird punctuation errors?