More Career Thoughts
Sometimes I think that I came to college as some sort of societal obligation. But I am glad that I came and I definitely do think college is a good idea.
But now that my college career is winding down, I'm thinking about the real world and changing. It seems to me that a lot of people get swept up in life through some necessity, IE marriage, children, lack of funds and these things just eat the people up in terms of who they are or what they wanted to do with their lives. For me, I don't really have any real obligations to anything right now, besides in the near future having to pay rent and utilities, but even that could be somewhat simplified. I'm wondering, why should I get swept up into life instead of being able to sit back, chill out and just do the things I enjoy doing in life, like kicking it with friends, listening to music, playing video games, going to concerts, surfing the net, whatever. I feel like I have this set of expectations placed on me. My grandma offered to give me $300 towards buying a suit for job interviews. I'm just really afraid I might be taking the wrong route with this whole "job" and "career" thing. I wish I had some sort of family support to help me out in chasing dreams and truly figuring out what I want to do, but everyone's just trying to get by, trying to make the best of the situation. I guess I'm somewhat lucky in being socially awkward in that I don't have any obligation to anyone else to hold me back from doing whatever. All these thoughts are all just vague ideas right now, I don't have any solid ground to go off of besides knowing I could do it if I really tried and had the time, resources and right people to work with to truly develop ideas into something tangible. That's all I'm really capable of creatively right now is just very rough sketchy ideas. I was reading about Pixar and their creative process and I liked it, check it out.
"The story artists in the Frogtown facility had individual offices. But we seem to spend a good deal of our time in the main story room hashing out the movie. I remember days when the crew would engage in a "story jam" that would last for hours. During these madcap sessions there would be laughing and yelling as sketches were pinned, ripped down, and redrawn on the spot. When we completed a sequence, the floor was littered with sketches and the storyboard was a haphazard mishmash of sketches done by different guys in different styles. Then the "chaotic mess" would be pitched to our co-director Ash Brannon for his take on the sequence. Once again, this "insane" way of working was in direct contrast to our colleagues down south where the process went according to the "efficient system" the creative executives had put in place."
I think that that's really cool. I could get into a creative process like that. That's one of my favorite things about my Digital Arts studio courses, just hanging out with my classmates because they're all such intelligent, creative people and each of them has something unique to bring to the table.
I didn't sleep all night. I was just surfing the internet online. I have 3 big projects due soon that I need to be working on but just can't quite get my to work on them. Just caught in one of those existential quandary things. But actually, as I type this, I just started work on my Moving Type project for my Digital Letterform class, so its not all true. I know what I'm doing for each of the projects, some work has already began on each of them, I just need to work a lot more on them. But at least the time spent not working on them is spent working on my own life.
But now that my college career is winding down, I'm thinking about the real world and changing. It seems to me that a lot of people get swept up in life through some necessity, IE marriage, children, lack of funds and these things just eat the people up in terms of who they are or what they wanted to do with their lives. For me, I don't really have any real obligations to anything right now, besides in the near future having to pay rent and utilities, but even that could be somewhat simplified. I'm wondering, why should I get swept up into life instead of being able to sit back, chill out and just do the things I enjoy doing in life, like kicking it with friends, listening to music, playing video games, going to concerts, surfing the net, whatever. I feel like I have this set of expectations placed on me. My grandma offered to give me $300 towards buying a suit for job interviews. I'm just really afraid I might be taking the wrong route with this whole "job" and "career" thing. I wish I had some sort of family support to help me out in chasing dreams and truly figuring out what I want to do, but everyone's just trying to get by, trying to make the best of the situation. I guess I'm somewhat lucky in being socially awkward in that I don't have any obligation to anyone else to hold me back from doing whatever. All these thoughts are all just vague ideas right now, I don't have any solid ground to go off of besides knowing I could do it if I really tried and had the time, resources and right people to work with to truly develop ideas into something tangible. That's all I'm really capable of creatively right now is just very rough sketchy ideas. I was reading about Pixar and their creative process and I liked it, check it out.
"The story artists in the Frogtown facility had individual offices. But we seem to spend a good deal of our time in the main story room hashing out the movie. I remember days when the crew would engage in a "story jam" that would last for hours. During these madcap sessions there would be laughing and yelling as sketches were pinned, ripped down, and redrawn on the spot. When we completed a sequence, the floor was littered with sketches and the storyboard was a haphazard mishmash of sketches done by different guys in different styles. Then the "chaotic mess" would be pitched to our co-director Ash Brannon for his take on the sequence. Once again, this "insane" way of working was in direct contrast to our colleagues down south where the process went according to the "efficient system" the creative executives had put in place."
I think that that's really cool. I could get into a creative process like that. That's one of my favorite things about my Digital Arts studio courses, just hanging out with my classmates because they're all such intelligent, creative people and each of them has something unique to bring to the table.
I didn't sleep all night. I was just surfing the internet online. I have 3 big projects due soon that I need to be working on but just can't quite get my to work on them. Just caught in one of those existential quandary things. But actually, as I type this, I just started work on my Moving Type project for my Digital Letterform class, so its not all true. I know what I'm doing for each of the projects, some work has already began on each of them, I just need to work a lot more on them. But at least the time spent not working on them is spent working on my own life.