Francesco
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Francesco
On one side, I agree with fact that I deserve a job that makes me want to wake up for it instead of whatever office boring and toxic job expects me to do.
But at the same time, following your passion and chasing art-making as your full time income is also likely to ruin your art practice in the first place. I know a little about it because I had a passion for music and sound art as a teenager. Even just attending uni in my early twenties to focus on sound more than on anything else was enough to make that passion fade away almost entirely.
So I’m not too sure what the answer is really. I wish I didn’t have to work either but I also don’t want whatever creative pursuit brings me joy now to become my ft profession.
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Somewhere between childhood, where anything is possible, and adulthood, where you feel stuck in life and have no time for fun, your innocence and hope were lost. This can be especially true of those struggling with a wounded inner child, who never had the chance to experience a normal childhood. In an instant, your thoughts turn from what makes you
... See moreMaria Clarke • Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A CBT Workbook to Overcome Past Trauma, Face Abandonment and Regain Emotional Stability. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This hits home
#SeatingPlans: Vital For Learning
All pretenses aside, Andy Warhol’s quote is the dominant sentiment of our time: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Making money is a high. Like sex and drugs and gambling and art. That all these activities cluster together at things called “art fairs” is no mistake.
Hardly agree. I don’t think that becoming a bigger well-lubricated cog and turning that wheels of capitalism = being a good artist. But here good is a word I’ve added, as it was never mention. Or could it be this concept of “making money is art” is also true and I just don’t want to believe it?
No one’s coming to save you: A designer’s unfiltered take on surviving a brutal market
Mindaugas Petrutisopen.substack.com
This post makes the argument that the market has changed, hiring has changed, and if you want to stay competitive you need to do three times (or more) as much work as you were doing so far. Why? To make your design resume and portfolio hyper-relevant, to A/B test versions of those, to practice for interviews by listening to recordings of previous interviews and mentoring answers word for word.
This is crazy. This is less of a lesson for individual candidates to learn and more of a reflection of how unprepared busynesses and hiring departments are with the current candidate pool. How the crazy standards they set and the amount time expected people put in for free. Insane expectations if you ask me.
As someone who’s been in the job market for over a year, I have so much more to write about this imbalance and why it can’t be all put in the hands of candidates to work this out. And it infuriates me that there’s people that just because they made it, because they were those 1/10000 who got the gig, they feel like they’re solved the riddle and get to tell everyone that they riddle is easy if you know what to do. Yet never at any time question if the riddle should exist at all.
first agency without a bloated website, and they do great work
I am a marketer, I sell tin foil to people who wear tin foil hats.
r/marketing - Reddit
Cruel optimism, social media and big tech
Why do we do this though? Most of us marketers are smart and perspicacious, how did we fall for this trap? Or are we here just because we had to carry on with the times?