Why do we do this?
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- vitamins0
If I didn't have to work, I would be painting at my own leisurely pace.
- sneakybadger0
*checks light fixing*
- ukit0
you know what, bull shite, this is the best industry to be in.
look at other people, soulless losers slaving away in accounting or human resource management.
if it is really your dream to go off and "build stuff" I guess you can, but have fun living off Ramen noodles. I bet the building stuff thing gets old pretty fast anyway. Go ask Jesus how that turned out.
- <<<<<<<<<<PonyBoy
- +1hellojeehae
- Jesus was a teacher/rabbi not a carpenter. That was Jacob.Amicus
- Well OK it's debatable. What we do know is that his slacker lifestyle ended badly for him.ukit
- All he did was stroll around places telling stories and starve himself every now and again...aanderton
- PonyBoy0
about 13 years ago I worked for Citi... I was an 'exucitive' (lol) at age 21... it took me nine months to go from a drone who did the same old shit (moving paper - verifying customer info... boooooring repetitive shit) alll day long... ... and I saw a posting for an exec spot that I knew I could handle. I applied... and I got it...
... 3 months later and a quadrupled salary - I realized I was still in 'drone mode'... repetitive boring shit where 'the solutions' were already in place... and all I had to do was follow them... zzzzzz...
... I complained to my Dad... ... his immediate reaction - 'you seem pretty good at that 'art' stuff - goto school'... so I dumped that position - moved 1500 miles west for school...
...now I don't have to work.
Love you Daddy!
—Kevin
- orrinward0
I'm 22 so I'm fresh blood.
I've been pursuing some form of creative practice since I was about 15. I was interested before but had decided that this is what I wanted to do.
I hope to get a job in some form of design soon and pursue that as long as I enjoy it. I've had 7 years of playing around and developing skills in a broad range of sectors and I feel I'm maturing to a point now where I'd like to really hone in on something.
Ultimately I'd like to be able to make a living off of some of my entrepreneurial ideas, but I don't have the time or money in my life to dedicate to those just yet.
I've only worked in the industry for a year on placement and I had the time of my life in that year - Partly due to my job but also due to the life I built. I'm now in a situation where I do want to develop and progress a career, but ultimately I want to support the other things I started in that year.
I think I can be satisfied in design/art for the rest of my working life, but I doubt I'll stick with a single area for the whole time. I'm too erratic in my lifestyle to stay in one spot physically and with regard to employment.
I love design so far because I like to create things and come up with new ideas. I'm a natural problem solver/solution finder and the most enjoyable place I've found to use this talent is through design and creative practice in general.
I'm a genuinely unique thinker and I find art and design is an easy outlet for my thoughts. I don't have a particular passion for a set of tools or industry as such, I just enjoy what the industry can challenge me with and what I can bring to it.
Whether this will last or not I don't know. I'm far newer to it all than most of you guys so I can't really say what I've just said will stick, but this has been my aim, albeit a vague one, for 7 years and I've not once thought 'This isn't the direction I want to push myself in'.
- Peter0
Could be worse. Or better. I'm not sure if I understand an article that was linked, through proxy (something about empty LA art), on the PBC yesterday. At any rate he sounded like you bunch of whine'oes:
http://trueslant.com/matthewnewt…
- stewdio0
Because we do what we gotta do real well and we've got the fever to tell.
- previous0
at least the world hasn't been afflicted with the bad art I would do if I didn't have to earn a living
- capn_ron0
I do this because it's the only thing I can do as a full time job, come home and do as freelance and then when I have a free moment continue doing in some fashion.
I consider it a passion rather than a job or career. Yeah, i have to go to work and I have to make money to pay bills, but who else do you know comes home from work and does more of the same because they like it?
Being creative is a good outlet. You may not get to do it to the fullest potential on every project, but that's why we make some up for ourselves and go full throttle with them.
- < this is true for me, 8 hours at work, then 6 hours of free time, lolsteven_segal
- monospaced0
I do it for the massive heaps of cash.
- utopian0
I do it for my fans.
- previous0
I do it for the glory of god
- egosmoke0
Everything scarabin said was dead on, but I'll add a few more.
I work in interactive / web, and I love my job and this industry. It's allowed me to travel, not only to other states, but also other countries to work and live. I don't need a lengthy resume, I am hired and judged by the quality of my work. I don't answer a phone and I don't sit in a cubicle with fluorescent lights beaming down. When there was a recession, I was busier than ever. I am constantly challenged daily and inspired by the people I work with. I don't need to stay at one job for 20 years to work my way up some ladder, rather I can work at different shops and gain more experience. The list goes on.....
- sherm0
i pretty much love being a web developer. i don't like paying taxes though.
- ukit0
- studderine0
its the only thing i am kind of good at.
- jtb260
I'm not that good of a designer, and i don't even have that cool a job, BUT I don't think i could ever do any thing else. Being a designer is great. The only thing that came close to being as rewarding is writing and playing music live, and try doing that for a living. If i won the lottery i would donate most of my time to design work for social change.
- d_rek0
I was raised by a pretty traditional roman catholic family. We're talking a generations of relatives whose highest ambitions were to get a factory job, work it for the next 20-30 years of their life and then retire. Fuck that.
I have always had latent artistic ability but it was never exactly encouraged by most of my immediate family that I should pursue a career as an artist/designer. And the area I was raised in was so culturally devoid and unaware that when I took that stupid test in high school about "Choosing a Career" I ended up not being able to complete it and having to talk to a counsellor about it. Most people from that area still think of artists/designers as someone who exclusively oil pants.
After I graduated I still didn't understand that I could make a living making art commercially. It wasn't until I attended community college that I really started to understand what graphic design was as a profession and through some excellent mentoring was set upon that path.
Now I've had more jobs than I can probably remember: bus boy, waiter/server, bartender, short-order cook, frycook, furniture mover, delivery boy, counting inventory for retail stores, lawn care... and those are the ones that I can remember. The only thing that I ever really loved doing as much as I do now is when I worked in a greenhouse (and someday hope to do this again, either personally or as a business) but none of them have ever been something that I can say I aw myself having a career in.
That being said there is no other career that I could have chosen that allows me to express myself artistically while generating a sense of reward and pride for creating something. Not only that I get paid to draw/sketch for hours on end and then to fuck around on the computer and make sweet shit! It's the cats-ass!
- studderine0
so i can be more sophisticated than everyone else.