2; hanging out with some incredibly fun, awesome classmates.
Seriously, they made up for how horrible the class was and I made quite a few great friends!
We would all hang out for lunch and talk about everything from the mafia to making guns to what we wanted to do with our lives.
I always remember, when I was in art class/ concept class/whatever, when I was asked "where would you want to work?" I would stare around mindlessly for a few seconds and say "I don't know; I really have no desire to work for a company", and I was pestered over and over because everyone wanted to work for D!sney or Dreamw0rks or C@rtoon Network or some gaming company or whatever. Out of sheer frustration, I'd usually just say M@rvel, because at the time they were the closest to sounding like the artists got any sort of freedom at all (getting royalties for their work, etc)
In this class, someone asked me one day, on our way to lunch together. Rather, the question was "so what are you interested in?" And in a moment of honesty, I said "never having to work for anyone or any company ever again". He smiled and said "oh..you mean millionnairing! Me too..me too" And THEN I knew I was around the same TYPE of people.
These are kids studying "small business" or people who have already started their little thing; one friend has her own l@ser cutting business and another designs jewellery; today he was telling me today that a single rock can sell for 5 mill dollars! And it's tough in the beginning, but you gotta do what you gotta do and keep doing your thing.
Say what you want, but people from fancy expensive schools rarely go on to do their own thing, own their own companies and run things. They end up working for other people. With all their fancy pieces of paper and shiny portfolios, they're lining up, hoping for a call to be some low-rung cog in the machine. And I say this, also, on the heels of the S0ny wages being released. I saw how much the animation supervis0rs and devel0pers make in comparison to the visu@l devel0pment artists and the vis dev salary stuff is abysmally low in comparison (there are links and the actual file is searchable via G00gle.
If I really wanted to be in that field, I would study up the coding from now LOL (just kidding; I think coding is a worthwhile skill that everyone should learn, in any case!) Add that to a market that is already saturated and you get well...desperation. It made me say "that sucks" and then go "oh well (not my problem!)"...
I met a guy who I meet from time to time who is still trying to get into super expensive art school after being rejected THREE times (I kid you not). I feel badly (although not too badly; he's a bit arrogant) and almost wanted to tell him that after he racks up a tonne of debt, and sees what his salary is really going to be like (assuming he immediately gets hired after that).....why not break that box and do his own thing? Because no; it's easier to be a lemming and do what everyone else is doing.
So here I am, wanting to do my own thing, walking off the beaten path, being the 'weird one', and it actually feels okay :)
We got to do whatever we wanted today so I fudged around with my piece. Feels great to work with my hands and make something!
Amen sister! Sounds like a very smart, savvy bunch. Too bad about the class, but just meeting some brilliant, inspirational and like minded people seems to have made it worth it for you! Here's to 2015!!
ReplyDeleteYes most def! And to travelling (cough cough). I may have a Trini visitor in August..I'm excited :) We shall see. I already have quite a few classes knocking on my door already, but I have to register to get into the one I really wanted FIRST and then will see about all the rest. Hope you got into all of yours, also :)
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