I am a home player only. Decades ago when I started playing keyboards in college in a band, I went through years of performing out and wanting to see how far I could take it. But my career as a graphic designer took front and center. I now work at a tv station and run a business on the side where I get booked at events of all kinds, especially wedding receptions, to draw caricatures of people. My days with my career tv job and my side caricature business are completely full.

But I try every day, even if only for a half hour late at night, to play music. I have 2 set-ups so I go back and forth and never get bored. My arranger is a PA-600, and my other set-up is a Roland VR-730 with a laptop loaded up with Band in a Box. I actually find myself probably playing this set-up more than the arranger recently, but I will never abandon the arranger.

The beauty of this is that playing music is nothing but joy for me. I don't put the pressures of making it a business on it, like I do with my visual art pursuits.