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Going through the almost 30 career crisis! |
| Message Name: |
Not mutually exclusive |
| Date Posted: |
05/07/2002 |
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Thanks for the advice but I have to say that I don't really agree with you.
I am not choosing to do administrative work because I am feeling lazy. I choose it because I rather be creative on my own time and not haved it sucked away at a job.
Believe me, when you work in a creative field, the job sucks all that creative energy right out of you and you don't want to be creative at all for yourself because you come home tired.
I get the impression that you think administrative work is "demeaning" and I know plenty of people who have done it. I don't think anyone is better than anyone else.
I really don't want to sell my art work on e bay because I rather go about it the right away and not to just make a quick buck. I don't see really accomplishing anything long term by doing that.
I realize that I do have plenty of design skills but I have lost my passion for it and I don't really enjoy it. It has become more of a conflict with getting in the way of my passion and I have started to resent it. |
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I don't think it is productive and healthy to fully compartamentalize your work life from the rest of your life. Inevitably, a bit of one seeps into the other. Done in a balanced and integrated way, this is a good thing, IMHO.
I'm not implying admin work is lazy, demeaning work. On the contrary, this profession is among the most overlooked and undervalued. They don't get half as much the respect and recognition they deserve.
Any job is what you make of it. Any job should allow a certain amount of creativity. I do understand that term can be defined several ways. For a creative artist, a position other than one in the creative arts might be viewed as mutually exclusive to your true passion and calling. That may be true but I challenge you that there is a way to meld the seeming dichotomy between the creative and the practical.
You hinted at one way to measure of how well a job fits you. Are you constantly tired at the end of your work day? Do you feel all that effort was wasted? Or do you come home energized and eager to do it again the next day, and the next? If you answer "Yes" to that last question more often than not, then your job is a keeper.
Find your passion. Nurture and feed your passion. But don't miss the less obvious ways to do it. After all, aren't creative artists supposedly able to see things others don't?
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