Im in marching band and in high school still and missed a lot of camp days and practices for marching band due to work, I work at a nursing home/ assistant living as dietary aid, and I work long hours or pm shift, so I'm tired when I get off of work at the am shifts and I can't go when I work the pm shift, I tried to explain that to my section and directors, and they understand but some of them still give me a hard time about it, I also pick of shift from those who quiet or are sick, or sometimes I miss practice out of pure laziness because I'm so tired and sometimes the extra money and with that extra money I'm able to help my mom with the small things like getting more food on our table and helping her with gas and treating ourselves with fast food and few things from the store and not worry about how much money we spent and have left, I also live 20 minutes away from the school so it makes things a bit harder for me too, I feel like an asshole for not going to most of my practices, I know all of the music and my dots besides a few moves that I need to work on.