#like if a decent paying and secure job making art landed in my lap i'd be all for that

[caulo]

@nnoiffu replied to your post “funniest thing about being medicated for ADHD is...”:

moving from art to business was the best decision i ever made and now im an analyst and i would not trade it for anything

yeah i feel like you get me lol especially because i know you and i share very similar views of both our capitalist hellscape + value in art ( creating, and receiving; visual, written, or otherwise )

​i am having a lovely time drawing daily again, focusing on improving fundamentals again and revisiting projects/ideas i've had for years. tomorrow i am hosting a three hour figure drawing session in an art discord, and i'm really excited about it. i am actually struggling to play video games, because i am just more interested in drawing all the time, and it feels great.

and honestly one of the last things i want to do right now is try to take all that, and the enjoyment i'm getting out of it, and adjust it to the current environment of professional art - one of the og hustle cultures lol.

#like if a decent paying and secure job making art landed in my lap i'd be all for that #but those uh..... barely seem to exist these days LOL #and especially not for new artists trying to push into the industry #when every company would rather just do as much as possible through cheap contract work #or layoff every employee below a certain level after each project #i'm not especially interested in having to fight against the literal industry so much #to have a job/freelance effort where being overworked is the given #obviously there's a degree of that everywhere because The Problem is Capitalism™ #but certainly some fields of employment have different recipes of exploitation than others #and idk i might be naive about the specifics of other careers. maybe book keeping is actually super cut throat #but i don't /think/ i see entire think pieces about why book keepers had to go through 3 months of crunch #with no overtime or benefits #before getting laid off by bethesda or w/e