I spend a lot of time thinking I really ought to improve in all three of these areas, but not knowing how to go about it efficiently. However, I have come up with one idea which will cover all three: Only Drink Alcohol When It’s Free. Thus, whenever a drink is required, I must attend some sort of event such as a gallery or exhibition opening, or aftershow party (which will lead to networking), or else be playing music at a function which provides free booze (which will lead to financial gain, in addition to the money saved by not buying any alcohol).

The problem with this theory, of course, is that wine at gallery openings, functions etc. is often horrible. Therefore, in order to obtain good wine, only the opening parties of very high-end galleries and exhibitions must be attended (leads to networking with more influential people, although after a while they may notice that I’m only there when there is free wine, which might be bad), and only functions at which the wine is good must be played at (which either means that the people will have so much money that they can afford nice wine and also to pay the musicians more, or that they will have spent the entire budget on the wine and won’t pay the musicians anything. Hmm.)

The details need work, I think, but maybe this could solve three of my problems at once…