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The Long Game

Three lessons on lumpy income, risk and the long run. General information, not advice. Here is how every lesson opens, and the first real call you make. Pick any one lesson and play the whole thing free, no card.

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Lesson 5.1 · about 20 minutes

Budget the Waves

Pay yourself a steady check from lumpy gig money.

Gig money comes in waves. Rent comes every month. Pay yourself a steady check anyway.

Skill: Budget the Waves
Lesson 5.1 Budget the Waves: the first call in the game, played on a phone or laptop
The first call, as you see it in the game. Your act's name goes where it says Your Act.
How it opens
Three dials, then January lands. Pick what you'd really do.
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Lesson 5.2 · about 20 minutes

What Could Go Wrong

Theft, injury, rain, a lawsuit: cover the act before it happens.

Theft, injury, rain, a canceled date. Decide what you'll do about each one before it happens.

Skill: Cover Your Act
Lesson 5.2 What Could Go Wrong: the first call in the game, played on a phone or laptop
The first call, as you see it in the game. Your act's name goes where it says Your Act.
Your first call
Your Act as a wedding band. You book it and hire the players. $2,400 risk budget. Three people hand you advice. Whose do you take? Then you build the board yourself, against the clock.
  • AInsure the rig, get the liability coverage venues ask for, cancellation clause and deposit. Skip outdoor weddings so rain can't touch you. Mats, sub list, backup drive.
  • BCable mats and a backup drive. Everything else rides on the $2,400 fund. Paperwork waits until a venue makes you.
  • CInsure the rig, get the liability coverage venues ask for, and put rain and cancellation clauses in every contract. Mats, sub list, backup drive.

Every option is something a working player really does. Which one would you pick? The game shows you what each one costs or earns.

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Lesson 5.3 · about 20 minutes

The Long Set

Thirty years in ten minutes: what starting early does.

Forty years in ten minutes. What a little from every gig turns into, and why the start date matters most.

Skill: Play the Long Game
Lesson 5.3 The Long Set: the first call in the game, played on a phone or laptop
The first call, as you see it in the game. Your act's name goes where it says Your Act.
How it opens
One chip a year. Tap the jar it belongs in before it gets spent.
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Unit 5 · The Long Game

All 3 lessons, each one ending with your own checklist. One time, no subscription. 30-day refund, no questions.

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