Why do we do this?
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- 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
- stewdio0
Because we do what we gotta do real well and we've got the fever to tell.
- 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…
- 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'.
- 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
- 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
- sneakybadger0
*checks light fixing*
- vitamins0
If I didn't have to work, I would be painting at my own leisurely pace.
- luckyorphan0
I do this because I'm okay at it (I'll never think I'm all that great), it's often enjoyable and it pays decent.
But if I could be a teacher and make the same rate, I'd bail any time.
- pillhead0
If someone told me at art collage in 1991 I would be sitting at a computer 90% of the time dealing with computer code and only spending 10% of my time, if that, designing and being creative I would have walked out of collage there and then and done something different.
- bigtrickagain0
I do this (front-end engineering) because i make money at it, and can't [yet] make money doing what i really want to do, which is photography.
i am not happy with my current career.
- previous0
pb : voice of everyman
- previous0
no other options
- LukeO0
having a hobby as a real job is great for me about 50% of the time.
What isn't great is every one of my friends earning more than me because they are city boys or sell other crap. That sucks. And as Vitamins says, designers disappearing around the 40+ age really bothers me. It's almost unspoken, it seems you set up on your own, get a director role or get the fuck out!
- nadanada0
i do this because it's the only thing i've been solidly good at for any reasonable amount of time.... but i spend all day at my desk wishing i could go learn the other things i want to be good at.
i want to live in london and be an apprentice on savile row, or go to fashion school.... but it all seems so far away.
- Don't be a sissy! I was even further and I got here anyway!maikel