The Afters - Part 2

Here is part two of Relevant Magazine's interview with The Afters. I related well to this quote from it.

Relevant: So what advice would you give someone who is thinking about trying to make a living as a musician?

Brad Wigg: If someone’s single, and they have the chance to go be a musician, and make it full time, then do it. If someone has a family, I would seriously advise them to reconsider. We were all under different assumptions of what this was going to be like. We were looking at it thinking we would be home a lot more, that more money would be coming in by now, and we wouldn’t be working as hard as we are. We’ve all had a pretty big wake up call as far as what it means to have a career in the music world and how difficult it could be.

Josh Havens: People come up to me all the time and say, “I’m trying to decide if this is what I should do with my life. Am I really called to do this? My wife isn’t so sure about it?” The first thing I tell them is that (they) need to ask their wife if they’re called to this to. Because God’s not going to call (them) and not call their wife. Because it is hard to be away.