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As you move along the path of becoming a professional comedian will encounter many crossroads. Places where decisions must be made. Points where you have to make a careful choice on how to proceed. These tough decisions comics have to make can go either way. Hopefully, they go in a way where you can sleep good at night. Ideally in a way that benefits your career longevity.

In this episode, I cover about a half dozen of these pivotal moments. Specifically, moments when you realize ...

• A club "double booked" you and you lost the gig
• You have a better offer for a night you are already booked
• You seem to have gone as far as you can in the clubs
• You are gone more than you want, but still like to work
• You aren't getting the money you think you deserve
• The road has flat out destroyed your health
• You've been at it so long you don't have any other skills

In each case, I discuss what steps I took to stay the course. Some of the decisions were quick and painless. Others, I really had to spend some time to figure out. Through trial and error I found ways to navigate the obstacle and continue to be funny and live the dream.

And I realize these are just a few of the potentially tough decisions you might need to make. Please let me know some others that were not part of this episode. We all have a different journey and some are trickier than others. I would love to hear your "tough decisions". Shoot me an email at [email protected]. Let me know if it is okay to share on the air either with your name or anonymously.

====== Quick shout out to the Savage and Starbuck show for having me on this past Wednesday night. To hear that interview please visit the following link:

http://bit.ly/SavageAndStabuck

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