Kifu is when they use uza to smash you into a box that's smaller than you are and then they seal it by putting it in a furnace and then they leave you in there for twenty years.
you might be doing it for the sake of the art itself, and it has nothing to do with survival.
I tried the survival thing. What I said once about being ashamed about not being able to support myself till I was 21? That was when I tried to make it freelance. It doesn't pay enough. It's worked much better for survival to get a regular job.
We just have this frame of reference around our income being low. (Seasonal farm work; housecleaning/restaurant work; and the worst of all, a "fixed" income.) So we've always looked to our writing/art/song lyrics, as some hope of breaking out of that.
I guess that's called, *better* survival. Being one of the 'working poor', sucked. Being one of the 'poor disabled', sucks out loud.
And social skills. I know a couple people who do make it as freelance creative types, and their talent is only mediocre. What they have is a healthy dose of narcissism, and they go around networking, touting their work to everyone under the sun.
I know the dream though. You have to do what you're good at in order to get into a job track that eventually leads out of the low income trap.
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Re: Sculpture. (Lige)
I tried the survival thing. What I said once about being ashamed about not being able to support myself till I was 21? That was when I tried to make it freelance. It doesn't pay enough. It's worked much better for survival to get a regular job.
Re: Sculpture. (Lige)
Highly agreed.
We just have this frame of reference around our income being low. (Seasonal farm work; housecleaning/restaurant work; and the worst of all, a "fixed" income.) So we've always looked to our writing/art/song lyrics, as some hope of breaking out of that.
I guess that's called, *better* survival. Being one of the 'working poor', sucked. Being one of the 'poor disabled', sucks out loud.
Three cheers for talent and education....
Re: Sculpture. (Lige)
I know the dream though. You have to do what you're good at in order to get into a job track that eventually leads out of the low income trap.