starving artists

[thepropagandist]

I am feeling really fucking negative about my ability to get a job. Most of my expertise is in video/film-related shit and there just don't seem to be many openings for positions anywhere in that field beyond part-time unpaid internships (and this is after looking on Craigslist, Purchase JobScore, MyWorkster, etc.). And most positions in other

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[channierose]

aaahhh, i remember this stage of post-graduation... i'll spare the details of what i went through because i don't want to scare you... but i ended up doing temping, then getting my job through that. sure office work is dull, but it pays much better than retail and you can do your art stuff on the side until that can sustain your bills alone.

going to school to be an artist

[unidentifd]

ya basically shortly after setting foot in that place as a matriculated student. i was fully aware i was living in a fantasy world. writing papers on carl rogers or analyzing the mis en scene for die hard and recieving straight a's in all my production courses is not worth the 2,000+ to sleep in the same cramped shitty space sharing rooms even. nor the 1,000+ mandatory food fee. i think my projected bill for this upcoming semester was near the 10,000 dollar range. that is real money. you can do alot more with those funds than share a lab of 8 computers and borrow some low end dv cams. im dropping out taking the potential money and my skills and working towards actually generating money. becoming a functional citizen. my conclusions about going to school for creativity: it has no application in the real world. i could pay to take a class, piss on a sheet of canvas and they would spend an hour critiquing it. they could even say positive things. at the end of the day what meaning does it have? i dont see it as too different from