New York City – Interviewing François Kevorkian isn’t exactly akin to a press conference with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – the stakes are certainly different – but the word prickly does come to mind. Perhaps true to his artistic nature, there’s rarely a question he doesn’t want to rearrange, disassemble or recast in some way. And the answers, while offering depth, wisdom, perspective and some tasty provocation, can be circuitous, rarely arrived at by directly addressing the inquiry he had an issue with in the first place. He’s a man seemingly bent on sharing his never-ending supply of semantic Play-Doh – or maybe my list of questions just, y’know, sucked.

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If your only long-range plan is what set of songs they’ll be playing after the next love ballad…you just might be a DJ! So true, but as our profession grows and becomes more respected as an entertainment industry, and as we find ourselves making decent money doing what we love, are we honestly thinking about our “long-range” long-range plan? How many of us plan to retire to the white sandy beaches of a tropical island, with one arm around a turntable and the other around a tanned significant other? Or do we admit we’ll still be pressing on, setting up our gear in retirement homes in the year 2040, playing oldies by Kid Rock and Jay-Z? For mobile DJs considering a plan for financial responsibility, it’s really best to see a financial planner, since the intricacies of investing and capitalizing on market rates often require a different part of the brain than the one we use to entertain guests at a 40th-year class reunion. We talked to a couple dozen DJs about their plans for the future, and found that even if you’ve been DJing since you were wearing Luvs diapers and plan to continue until you’re wearing Depends, there are options that should be considered.

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