-$40,000.

Any lower and I’m throwing in the towel on this honest work and going into a life of crime. I mean, it’s still kind of a job, but you set your own hours, unlimited time off, and there’s hookers and blow.

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Depends on how much work you want to do.

If you can get the pieces off you can remove the layer that is degrading, prep the plastic and use a spray on vinyl polymer to recoat it.

Stuff like spray on ‘electrical tape’ and plastidip can be found in most hardware stores for pretty cheap. If you’re serious, they make a type of primer specifically for plastic, typically used for prepping before painting, but it serves to let the spray adhere to the plastic.

Life is too short to not pursue your passion.

My advice: go for it. If it’s something you truly want to do, you will find a way to make it work.

There are compromises that have to be made and some can be hard to adjust to, especially if you are used to a certain level of comfort in your life BUT you can always go back to nursing if you want.

I’ve had 4 major careers and started at the bottom at each one. It does get harder (on the ego at least) to do that as you get older but it can be done.

My first two careers were out of economic necessity. In my mid 30s I decided I had enough of low paying dead end jobs and from that point forward I refused to work any job that didn’t somewhat interest me.

By sticking to that principle, in the last 6 years I have doubled my income.

Now I am about to go into early semi-retirement so I can live out the rest of my life doing whatever I want with my free time. Like you, I’ve also worn my body out and can’t do the work I used to as well.

Again, compromises, I will probably have to budget very frugally but that is the exchange I am willing to live with.

Think about the probable last 10 or 15 years of your life. If you suspect that you might look back and greatly regret not pursuing your passion for music, then you know what you need to do now.

As for how to handle the change… just know that most good things involve a degree of risk. A few years ago I started a business. It was very scary. And did not go as well as I had hoped. Thankfully it didn’t completely ruin me but it took a big chunk out of life and ended up putting my deep in debt which I am just now about to climb out of.

And you know what? I don’t regret it one bit. I learned a lot and it actually enabled the last career change which put me in the position to be able to do the early retirement.

So, the lesson here is that staying in one position in life guarantees that you will most likely continue to get what you got. And that’s fine, especially if it’s where you want to be. But by taking a few risks, not all of which will work out- that’s always a possibility, greater things are possible. Even if those greater things are simply living a more fulfilling life.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Looks like a time lapse of Sarah Huckabee Sanders getting hit with a bimboification ray.

Yes, you are correct about the washing machine. Now broaden your scope and think about how that washing machine fits into the bigger picture. Like it’s one brick in a house. The brick might be upgraded, it’s a smaller, tougher brick, maybe even cheaper, but now you need two bricks to make the same house.

There are many inventions that have greatly improved working conditions for people, the washing machine is a great example. That’s not what the original commenter is criticizing. They’re criticizing the larger structure, the house, not the brick.

If there weren’t the washing machine (as well as cheap wrinkle free clothes - eliminating the iron and board and sewing), the microwave, the refrigerator for frozen foods, digital spreadsheets for doing the bills, and so on, the economy would naturally adjust to make affordable a one person income household.

We have all these advancements to save time and effort but the system has likewise adapted, requiring you to spend that extra time now at a job in order to live.

That’s what the original comment was criticizing, this sleight of hand of promises, that sells us one thing but delivers only more work.