Having the self-belief that you will be able to figure things out as you go along is critical to success at anything hard.
Get started and trust yourself. No one has all the answers at the beginning.
A short cut to identifying your motivations and strengths might be to ask 5-6 people you’ve worked with for some honest feedback on what you’re like. I’d recommend asking people who’ve managed you, peers and people you’ve managed. Look at the consistencies, and the differences, and work out what your ‘spike’ is. As you won’t be working with them,... See more
Annie’s lessons from being an ex-founder seeking a new job and career path
When you start to disentangle production, identity, and the matter of survival from one another, that relationship to doing can become much clearer, especially for those in the spaces of art and craft.