Just take the job and if you don't like it, quit. You have nothing to lose.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Also, is this ethically right for the hiring company?
Been living like this for 4-5 years now. Maybe it´s time to stop depending on parents.
The goal is to switch to fine art and sell paintings to collectors.
I´m preparing to be an artist, went all-in since the beginning of 2019, have already all the canvases and materials, hired models, booked an atelier to work from and also some work to show etc. etc.
Currently applying to local art galleries
Now: So I was trained to be a commercial game artist, and they are inviting me to an interview for a casino company.
The revenue after taxes and living costs: ~1k€/month
Little time for developing art business(my energy levels are very low after working as well...)
Boring work and dealing with management.
If I don´t take the job, am I just spoiled?
Take a job or find some way for income to accommodate your life, but remember to ignore the F*ck out of sidewalk/slowlane people that you come across while there. Their SCRIPTED advice isn't worth more than a fake smile and nod in fake agreement.
I made a decision a while ago to move back in at my mom's place. Why? Because I'm a loser? Perhaps that's how it appears for others. Truthfully, I don't care. I work for her business right now anyway (it pays me more than any other wageslave position in this shithole province.) I am also able to help out at a local studio as a producer. (The work I do there is for free now, but the owner is a good friend/mentor and I'm in the business of helping other people out.)
Sure the sacrifices suck.
-I don't hang out with friends as much as I used too.
-Whenever I want to meet someone off tinder, it's often a date in my vehicle, their place, their parents' place or a cheap airbnb if I'm going all out.
-The small town folk probably talk shit about me.
But, I look at the silver lining to these.
-Friends don't waste too much of my time with BS
-Tinder dates are often shortlived and/or just hookups, thus also not overly time consuming.
-The town folk are living the SCRIPTED life and their opinions don't matter to me. (It's also not easy to disregard what others think about us and the more I can train myself to break this "conditioning" the better.)
So how will I get my "millions" or "rock hard abs" or "insert other desire here"? Through small habits and actions that will better my odds over time. A lot of this looks unsexy and unappealing at the beginning. It's also torturous to some extent. But, the alternative is the hell I truly dread.
I digress...
Get enough income to accommodate your life, but stay true to yourself and avoid the many pitches of the SCRIPTED zombies.
I wouldn’t take the job.
Your current living situation seems like a good way to live cheapily and invest all your time into your art which I am assuming you see a path to financial freedom through.
Why the hell would you take a shit job to make a few bucks? The job doesn’t improve your living situation much if at all (doesn’t sound like living with your parents is that bad) and doesn’t move you closer to your end goal
Since there was no direct answer to my question, I'll ASSUME it's 40 hours a week.... to which I tell everyone in my family.... get your lazy @ss up off the couch and get what you need done, done! 40 hours a week always chaps my '@ss when people say stuff like that! I worked 120+ hours a week, 520+ hours a month when I was young yet people want to complain about being tired after 40 hours. I busted my @ss at Burger King for over 2 years on that schedule. Not just you, but anyone that reads this and is complaining about being tired after working less than 100 hours a week..... you ain't gonna melt snowflake..... now get done what you need to do to get to the next level.
As for the art business, no one here is connected deeper in the art business than me but you should take your talent some place else. Make a business that uses your talent. If you are good, people will want you. Sure, it's nice to see and draw boobs all day, hell, I'm all for that..... but it will take years if ever to make much money doing that. Don't get caught in the dream..... it's just a hobby right now. Work the measly 40 hours at the job and after work, make it happen with your art.... either make it a business or keep it as your hobby.
Okay, alarm bells ringing.
Aha, alarm bells quietened, this sounds good.
Excellent.
That's fine you're still saving money.
Well that depends, I'm going to make a couple of assumptions here for my answer, so correct me if I'm wrong.
So you say you're an artist, and that you want to work on your business, and the art you are trained in is artwork for computer games. So I'm assuming that your business is setting up some kind of agency that people can come and buy your art for their games, and eventually other artists that you sign.
Whether that's the case or not, I think you should take the job for the following reasons.
1. Contacts: seeing as you are trying to start an art business, and the job is in the same area you want to enter, you should take it just to increase your contacts. You could meet future clients, suppliers and/or partners.
2. Savings: Every business needs money to start it off and keep it going, so if you are making €1000 after living expenses, that is a chance to save €12,000 a year, what would that do for you in terms of starting your business.
3. Experience: No matter how good you are at something, you can always get better right? Plus of course, this will show you how such an agency operates and will give you ideas for your own business.
4. Enthusiasm: You are an artist and you have decided to go all-in, so I'm assuming you are really into your art right? So then surely getting a job doing something you actually enjoy is better than the other jobs you mentioned which sucked the life out of you. This way you get to enjoy your work whilst still keeping your eyes on the prize.
So TLDR take the job, gain experience, meet contacts, work out how much money you need to take your business to the first level, save up your €1000 per month till you hit that target, then leave.
This is the route of the problem, now you are starting to think fastlane, whereas for the last 4-5 years you weren't. Basically save money, stay (or get) out of debt.
This sounds incredibly risky, have you proven the market in any way shape or form?
I don't mean, how big is the fine art market? I mean what leads you to believe that collectors will buy your paintings?
From what I can see about the art world, for a collector to want a piece by a living artist, that artist has to be seen as a future potential money-maker. This will only happen if you are doing loads of exhibitions and getting lots of favourable write ups, and even then most artists are poor and hungry.
Have you read How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Succeed? If not you should, it is by the Dilbert creator Scott Adams, it might be nice for you to see how a fellow artist made it big and what he had to do whilst on his journey.
Just take the job and if you don't like it, quit. You have nothing to lose.
Just a stupid idea: Cant you take the impressions of this new job and make a paint series out of it. I mean, see it as an inspiration for your other hobby. Painting models is so ... normal ... how about catching your impressions into your art and combine it with something, but dont ask me what. Make some synergy out of it! And then maybe sell it to your boss or offer at least one free before. Maybe he thinks about redecorating.
Always see opportunity! :-D
Would the hiring company keep you if you don't seem to be a good worker?
No, and this is as ethically right. So why bother.
Been living like this for 4-5 years now. Maybe it´s time to stop depending on parents.
It is risky. If it´s becoming a way of life, there is no way to quit even after hundreds of failures though.
As others have mentioned, this remains a "hobby" until the first sales trickle in.
Good perspective on collectors....There is a debate around art vs. representational painting, but let´s not talk about that
Will give the book a try!
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