Artist's 'day job'?
Unknown visitor | 04/11/2003 @458 | edit post

Hello all, I'm currently studying a librarianship, so that I can actually have a job that will support me while I make art. Sure, I'd love to be doing this full time one day - wouldn't we all? But...ehh, let's face it, until you get yourself out there and get steady work coming in and get your skills up to scratch, you just can't give up your day job. Hence me studying. Boring and time consuming, but necessary for survival. It ain't fair. Ssso, my question is this - what are some of the 'day jobs' people have out there to support themselves when their art doesn't (yet)? I'm not talking about people who are currently being supported by their parents or partners, either (grrr! How sweet your lives are...) but people who have to support themselves by means other than art. My previous day job was so time consuming I quit because I had no time or energy left for art...do other people have this problem too?

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Upakovshik | 04/11/2003 @503 | edit post

make and sell soap)

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TeflonTron | 04/11/2003 @680 | edit post

That's such a coincedence: I make and sell soap too...

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shadowgirl | 04/11/2003 @703 | edit post

unemployed.. well, outside of my freelancing stuff at the moment. currently looking for some part time work.

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turtle | 04/11/2003 @859 | edit post

currently i do have a job as an illustrator but for years i've been working as a night supervisor in a boarding school and i did a lot of medicine testing.

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HungerArtist | 04/12/2003 @008 | edit post

I sit in an empy cage and peer at onlookers...

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ZiN | 04/12/2003 @040 | edit post

Heh sounds like HungerArtist has something along the lines of my work. I am a Security Guard for a Bank and get to wear a big yellow jacket that blinds all those that oppose me. -ZiN

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Peganthyrus | 04/12/2003 @050 | edit post

Production assistant at Spümcø (the animation studio responsible for 'Ren & Stimpy' and 'Ripping Friends'). I used to do Flash animation here but times've changed and nobody wants to pay for Flash junk. Someday I hope to manage to move on to layout here. -Peggy

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simplistic | 04/12/2003 @233 | edit post

hmmm, i make and sell soap! naw, jokes jokes, i actually work in a shoe store, NO IM NO AL BUNDY! just so you know its a high fashion retail shoes store working on 5% commission... i don't know why i said that but ya... im only 18 so it doesn't really count for me but hey, there my two cents... or 3

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bigrod | 04/12/2003 @287 | edit post

sounds like im your opposite catapult. Used to make a living off design - decided that i'd had enough of getting a wage and have gone back to being a poor student. But if you're interested in doing design as a job, then the best way to learn it is to do it

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mrunknown | 04/13/2003 @441 | edit post

Ren & Stimply rules! hehe. named my cat and dog after them too. anyways... unemployed, but currently looking for financing to start a company. anyone wanna donate? only need like $500. *sigh*

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Puffnasty | 04/13/2003 @850 | edit post

I'm a, "god forbid", civil engineer by day. It's kinda nice though. It lets me get the logical off my mind so that I'm free for creativity when I do my painting, photography and photomanipulations in my free time.

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Elfhands | 12/06/2003 @646 | edit post

Day Job? What's that? Hehe. I do whole lot of freelance stuff. Teaching english, doing webdesign, comics, and illustrations.

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kariefury | 12/06/2003 @683 | edit post

I'm an assistiant fashion designer, although my job is more sending out order's of clothing I do get to occassionally design something, like mail out's or the catalog, and a website is next on the list of thing's to do.

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SeraFin | 12/07/2003 @140 | edit post

graphics whore.. i do the graphic design for businesses websites, intranets and logo's.. it sucks.. i hate doing slave 'art' which isnt art. but it pays the bills.

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skratchpad | 12/07/2003 @266 | edit post

Well fortunately I have a day job that, while not totally tapping into my artistic genius, lets me be creative. I'm a mechanical designer for DeWalt Tools. I use a program called CATIA to design and surface 3D models by day and Pen and Ink and Pencil to create my worlds at night

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cornealedema | 12/07/2003 @603 | edit post

work for the USPS, digital art lets me vent so I don't go in shooting.

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SeraFin | 12/08/2003 @144 | edit post

and thats definitely a good thing cornealedema

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keebler | 12/08/2003 @150 | edit post

Vroooom! Tattoo Artist, before finishing my apprenticeship though, I did a bunch of java slinging, bartending and assorted daygrind jobs to finance my art jones .

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Elfhands | 12/08/2003 @293 | edit post

Nice avatar, keebler. You have a tatoo of that on yourself?

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keebler | 12/09/2003 @333 | edit post

Nup....maybe later,just have the habit of dooodling it all over the place... and hiding it in the tattoos of unsuspecting customers! =)

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SeraFin | 12/09/2003 @350 | edit post

lol remind me 'not' to get a tat from you lol!