What you really need to dj?

so i dont have a laptop, i just have a desktop and a harddrive full of good music and i'm always getting more. all styles and time periods. i have an i pod, a cd walkman, and a mixer that is called a eurorack ub802, i havent really utilized any of this stuff yet, i've been djing occasionally at a bar, but i just plug my hard drive into their laptop and play songs, but i dont have the equipment nor have i fully learned the craft of mixing to tracks together. id like to be able to mix so i can make the music more engaging (not so much so there is continuous same bpm music) with clever allusions and similar lyrics or beats one after the other and so i can play the better part of a song and lead to the next without playing a 5 minute track in it's entirety with a simple fade out.


SO, anyway. i'm wondering if anyone has a creative idea for how i can start djing soon, or if you think i will need to buy a laptop so i can get serato or trakto or something like that. thanks!What you really need to dj?
For general career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search 'announcers' or such. It seems as though most DJs have gotten their bachelor's degree in fields such as communications, hospitality management or such.





Please forgo those private $$ career/tech schools and instead opt for the more affordable community college and traditional university.





This site may have negative posts about those online, for-profit schools (course credits may Not transfer either) such as penn foster, capella, ITT tech, sanford brown, university of phoenix and others: http://www.ripoffreport.com and can type into search.





For US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ