$$$ vs creative
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- betelgeuse0
the best thing to do is ask this
"What would Don Draper do?"
- Cheat on my wife?Ctrlx
- well there you go.bigtrick
- Yep. That's the answer my friend.betelgeuse
- Problem solved.Ctrlx
- neonspice0
I'm glad someone asked this coz I was just about to ask the same.
- mikotondria30
Do the money job.
It's amazing how creative you can feel with a bit of cash to burn.
It's not surprising how uncreative you can get when you're hurting for every penny, debt collectors are calling and you don't know how you're gonna stop your electric getting cut off.
There's no heroism to being a starving artist, it's 2011 - do stuff and gets paid, creative or not. Bottom line is bottom line.
See if you don't like the money gig, but turn it down after knowing what it can do for you.
Being poor is a waste of your time.
- pauliusuza0
Or better of, take the money job and do work as creatively as possible thus by improving the company from inside.
- Then when you get fired for it - start your own businesspauliusuza
- hektor9110
What would QBN do?
- lexicon0
Creative. Half or more of the people in this industry are robots who either never were creative or they have had it beaten out of them. Got to make sacrifices to do what you love.
- I feel most creative when I check my bank accountpauliusuza
- Dodecahedron0
What would Brett Bash do?
- Take any job?Ctrlx
- take YOUR jobsublocked
- take you work and still not get a jobDodecahedron
- freedom0
money doesn't equal success.
- formed0
Depends on what the extremes are.
High Paying gig - if it is simply boring, but you get paid 50% more, then you can enjoy your money more, you will be loved more and you can find personal projects to express your own ideas
Creative gig - if it truly lets you do whatever, the other people working there are exceptional and will, as a team, help you excel, resulting in a super portfolio down the road.
BUT it needs to be an investment to really be worth it, not just 'fun'.Portfolio - how is your portfolio? Will it benefit greatly from the creative work or will it just be a basic evolution?
Future - where you work now will determine what your opportunities are later on. If the pay difference is 10-15% that's not much, but if it is a HUGE then you have a tough choice.
- autoflavour0
i just about to watch a mad men now, will let you know what don draper does in 45 minutes or so
- jamesomega0
Go for money.
Use said earned money to fund the creative.
- pinkfloyd0
Like everyone said, I'd guess it depends on your age.
- chilamont0
Depend on your socio-economic position or disposition.
- scarabin0
age schmage. i think it depends on how badly you need the money.
if it's enough to make you happy OUTside of work go for the creative option. that way you're happy all of the time.
- BusterBoy0
My motto:
Money will never make you happy, but lack of money can make you seriously unhappy.
- Not always the case, but a lot of the time this is true.BusterBoy
- deepbetelgeuse
- having money makes me happy.johnny_wobble
- how much you got?Milan
- fuck all...BusterBoy
- duhsign0
i suggest you learn to rap
- scrap_paper0
Every piece of work you do or job you take is leverage. Do a little strategy. What are the pros/cons of each direction?
Does taking the creatively weak higher paying gig really hurt you in the long run from a creative stand point?
Does taking the more creative gig hurt you in the long run from a financial standpoint?