Oh yes it is,the hardest really.As a child I made the decision to pursue it,nothign was going to take me off track which is still true today yet to hang in and hang on,I don't know what to tell you,you have to really love it.some folks appear to just slide through it but that is not so,a popular major label artist must sell millions of records before they ever have a dollar that they can call their own.And along the way you are ripped off by everyone.Then if that is not enough you get your tax bill set up to garnish the wages of your day job.Complete with penalties and compounded interest.And you thought nobody cared....