I was talking with a producer friend of mine, and naturally we came upon the question of what is the first personal luxury each of us would indulge in if money was no issue.
He had an instant, well thought out answer.
A foot massage every night as he’s going to sleep.
Great.
He would get into bed. Foot massage begins. Foot massage ends. Nighty night.
So we decided to break it down a bit. And it was a very fun, meaningless, presumptive, over-blown problem to figure out while standing around a cocktail party.
In order to pull this off you’d need to have a person on-call during a certain time frame each night. We decided that time frame to be 11pm-1am. At any point during that time, you send a text (and the masseuse would have to live fairly close…that’s a requirement), they show up already with a house key, let themselves in, do the massage and that’s it.
So you’re paying for two hours of someone’s premium time, and that person has to be really good at rubbing feet…and you’re also paying for them to be available any night that you’re in town.
We ballparked that someone who could fill these qualifications would probably work for a rate of $40/hr.
That’s $80/day. And lets just say that you were in town every single night for a the whole year, which means they are on call every single night for the whole year…you’d end up shelling out $29,200.
Ok, yes, that’s a lot of money. Nothing to sneeze at.
BUT think about it, of all the personal luxuries, if that’s the ONE luxury that you’ve always wanted if money were no issue at all…it’s just not that much!
You don’t have to make a gazillion dollars a year to have someone come massage your feel every single night.
Here’s the thing. It’s easy to say how you wanna be a huge rockstar career and have stacks of cash everywhere so you can finally buy all the things you’ve always wanted…but when it comes down to it, they money doesn’t matter as much as you might think.
My producer friend doesn’t need a bunch of #1’s and millions of dollars to have the luxurious night time routine he’s always wanted. He just needs $29,200.
They life you want is perhaps then a better discussion than the money you want.
You might be a lot closer than you think.
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I’m always interested in your perspective, whether affirming or dissenting. Continue the conversation anytime: gabethebassplayer@gmail.com