Anonymous · 7d
I figured you were still drawing since you have Gaze an Eagle Blind coming up. Was just wondering what your career plans were since that seems to be a stress point ever since things took a turn for you earlier this year. With everything going on with AI, it seems like a lot of creative professionals have had to shelve their previous career plans in exchange for something that's hopefully more sustainable and promising in the face of this degrading tech. Just wanted to see if you had any new visions or long term goals for how you'd see your life as a creative could be from this point forward. Really sorry of this came off at all disrespectful and hope you're able to get continued support in the face of everything going on.
I didn't take it as disrespectful, you're good! I understand your curiosity now.
I'm not really looking toward a "career change" because I don't really want to sacrifice my time and energy to labor that'll get in the way of the pile of work I want to get in control over, so what little other work I can find tends to be in the odd consultation here and there. Ideally I'd like to be able to continue teaching art more regularly as a side hustle but not a lot of opportunities for that has come up. What I'd LOVE to be hired to do is project management or story supervision because I do consider organization my primary skill set (even more than art) but I've had even less luck with that.
So ultimately I'm full on investing in my projects garnering enough support in the long-term, it's just taking an immense amount of work upfront to build up to it!
honestly right now I'm very lucky to have had the option to move back in with my family rent-free so that I can focus on paying off my debts can get back to 0. My only official income are my ko-fi subscribers rn and all that money is going toward what I owe in taxes and CC debts. so really I owe a lot to any and all that are choosing to believe in making the dream happen.
