Utilities

Times weren't always easy. Early on when I worked as a composer sometimes the money wasn't there. Or a certain client or two turned out to be dishonest and would try to stiff me on payment after I created a ton of music for their project.

I used to have to play a juggling act with the electric, gas, water and phone companies by calling them to convince them not to turn off the service since I wasn't able to pay.

One particular instance the water company did shut the water off. What I didn't realize was that my apartment's water was tied to the 3 apartments around me. So, everyone else had their water shut off, too. My neighbors were all pissed. I couldn't blame them and felt pretty bad about it. I had to scrape the cash together to make the payment so everyone had water again.

It wasn't a good time for me and I never would want to go back to that again.