I quit playing music for a living back in the early '70's. I was tired of the road, I was tired of the highs and extreme lows of cash flow, I was tired of having to play music I didn't like to generate that cash flow, and I finally decided I loved music too much to let it become "a living" or "just a job". I stepped into the real world and got a job that paid pretty well that I could hate, and started playing music that I liked, with people that I liked, even though it was infrequently, and found it was good therapy and much more fun. The guys I'm with now can play whenever and almost wherever we want, but choose not to play any "high hassle" venues. We don't play much, but we have a lot of fun when we do. This works for me, doesn't mean it works for anyone else.