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[fiddlestick]

Elliot Craig

[MUFFLED VIOLIN MUSIC IN THE DISTANCE]

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4/5;text

[compendiem]

Got a favor.

[fiddlestick]

Transcribe a song huh?

Well, I could give it a shot?

[compendiem]

You can make money doing this stuff too. Backburner projects.

[fiddlestick]

Aha, well when it comes to music, there's nothing backburner about it for me.
Being a songwriter for people would be really nice career, actually!

But yeah. I'll need to figure out a good price for transcribing a song from their memory.

[compendiem]

You can charge them something ridiculously overpriced, and then let them haggle their way down to something less ridiculously overpriced. Then everybody's happy.

[fiddlestick]

That's not a bad idea for a business, but I'm not very good at haggling at all.

[compendiem]

Yeah you are. If you can argue with me, you can haggle with everybody else.

[fiddlestick]

[But I'm barely making any money from that haggle, he thinks to himself]

I think you're easier to haggle with than others...

Besides, it's different with my music than it is my food. It'd probably hurt to hear how little people think it's worth.

[compendiem]

I'll help you practice haggling. I'm good at that.

People will pay upwards of a hundred dollars for a bite of food, yet expect music to be free. You're involved with both. You know that already. It isn't personal.

[fiddlestick]

It's personal to me.

Music's important to me, way more important than cooking is. The reason I started cooking for people is so I could get money for music stuff. I'll probably even close down the food shop once my music career gets enough off the ground to support itself.

I know that double standard exist, I do. I just....I don't think I can handle being told it to my face every day.

[compendiem]

I'm kind of glad I'm stockpiling from you before you close everything down.
You could always get a manager to do the haggling for you. Then all you get to hear is the good news when a deal is made at a reasonable price. ...I charge a 5% cut.

[fiddlestick]

[WHAT]

Don't you already have two jobs...?

[compendiem]

Four. So what?

[fiddlestick]

Four??

Don't you go to school too?? When do you sleep?

[compendiem]

I had to withdraw, so school doesn't matter anymore. And they're not full time jobs, and I don't go five days a week either.

[fiddlestick]

Oh...I'm sorry?? Can I ask why or...?

[He's guessing money if this guy has FOUR JOBS]

[compendiem]

It's cafe stuff and a paid internship, so I can't get 8 hours a day from them anyways.

[ is he answering the wrong why? you can be more direct, elliot ]

[fiddlestick]

No, I meant the withdrawing from school...

[compendiem]

I was enrolled in an out of state university. I don't think it exists anymore. Haven't heard from them since I moved here.

[fiddlestick]

Oh no...that's terrible. I didn't even think about how people going to school online would get affected by the radio silence.

[compendiem]

Spend the next five months trying to get tuition refund, that's how they're being affected.

[fiddlestick]

I'm sorry.

[compendiem]

There's nothing for you to be sorry about. That's just how life is. I'll deal, and so will everybody else reach those they need to.

[fiddlestick]

[ There's a pause as he thinks about his own family he hasn't been able to reach. The letters he's been getting have been...worrying, to say the least. ]

I guess so....

[compendiem]

[ Deal with it............

On brighter news, possibly-- ]

Hey, by the way. Do you take foreign currency?