– Making countless cups of coffee.
– Cleaning, mopping, and sweeping the studio.
– Ordering food, serving food, and clearing leftovers.
– Doing clerical jobs.
– Getting cigarettes and liquor for clients or the boss.
– Countless hours of editing, auto-tuning, and noise cleaning.
– Sweet-talking and giving fake feedback to music composers.
– Thousands of minutes of complaining (about clients, bosses, and projects) every fortnight.
– Self-stress dumping. Lots of it. Piles and piles of it.
– Lots of junk food gobbling.
– Running into weeks and months before washing clothes (innerwear included), and socks too.
– Being the recipient of abuse and swearing with high storage capacity.
– Going uncredited for projects after hours, weeks, and months of slogging.
– Going unpaid for months, years, and decades.
– And being stuck!