
Most people spend their working life counting down to the day they can stop. Jake Gold has never understood the question.For forty-five years he’s managed bands — most famously The Tragically Hip — and when people ask when he’ll retire, his honest answer is “from what?” This is a conversation about work that never felt like work, the identity that gets built around it, and what that gives you and quietly costs you.
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ABOUT JAKE GOLD:
Jake Gold is one of Canada’s most respected artist managers, best known for discovering and managing The Tragically Hip. He spent six seasons as a judge on Canadian Idol, was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and at 68 says he’s busier now than he’s been in twenty years.
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A LINE THAT STAYED WITH ME:
“I’ve never received a check in this business that I didn’t write.”
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