I'm a music producer, songwriter, video creator, general creative in these industries... Yet most of my income comes from music royalties, that I had for producing for artists getting 50% splits then they blew up!

Yet they stopped making music a long time ago so I'm living off these old royalties, beat leases and any random stuff that comes my way. I probably make around 1500USD per month.

I'm from the UK but currently live on a small coastal beach town in Central America. This income goes further for me here than it would in UK of course. I really love the life I'm living right now, nature, people, health etc. In the UK I was way more miserable despite trying to tick these boxes. So I say all that to say ideally I don't move back for music.

Good thing about being here is I'm on EST time zone and connected to people online. I could fly to New York for example. Also I could fly to Los Angeles. These are things I plan to do once I build more of a "brand" online and it would make sense. Ideally I have multiple things lined up.

Also this gives me time to focus on getting better at piano, guitar, mixing, vocal comping. I'm doing all of these right now. It also gives me time to focus on being more human which I've lost trying to grind away. To connect with humans, socialise, build a life. I think it's necessary for me to grow all this so when the opportunity comes I can make the most of it. Instead of just being hidden behind a screen anonymous you know.

My question is, how would you build if you were in a city/country that doesn't favour your music career?

I just want a more mature strong handwriting instead of what feels like a childs scribble at time slol

Long story short I've been in the industry for a decade. Got lucky around 21, was DJing, toured, producing for artists (no one super noticeable), sync. Those were the mains.

Anyways a lot has changed and I'm now in my thirties.

Everyone knows how choppy this industry is. I can have a good month in March $$$ wise from monthly royalty payments, quarterly comes in same time and any beat leases I made (Was around 3,000USD, which is good for me, I'm not based in the USA fwiw)

Then in April so far I've made 50USD lol. Although towards the end of the month is when the monthly royalties come in and they currently float around 1,200USD but they are decreasing by the month as the songs are old and not popular. Saying that though I could suddenly make a couple hundred or a grand at any point from beat leases infact I have someone trying to get a bundle now which will end up to around 200USD. Basically there's never a set number on income each month.

Anyways, my post is about seeking part time jobs in the music world, online. Or even just online in general something I can learn to do or can do no problem just got to dedicate time to it whilst working.

Money gives me stress as I don't have any family money to fall back on but I don't want to give up my music dreams. I haven't tried hard enough in recent years but I'm about to as I've just gone cold turkey sober.

Does anyone know of anything like this?