This quote captures a rule I’d like to live my life, and by extension my career by. I’d like to have a job where every day looks different because you respond to whatever eventualities arise. What is a good way to find these?
I’m not asking for specific job positions (although feel free to suggest some) because I imagine such positions exist in most fields — I’m rather asking for ways to find these/filter for these in a given field.
Art jobs are like this! Especially if management are also art people, then every day is utter chaos lol.
Two things an art job is great for:
Developing a thick skin. Make art every day, send it off, receive a detailed list of everything that sucks about it, re-do it, repeat this about 30 times until it finally goes out, then receive death threats from the audience.
Learning to function under chaos. A regular Tuesday at Art Job is roughly equivalent to the worst day in company history and a normal office job.
Two things an art job is not good for:
Keeping the desire to make art for fun in your spare time.
Being a regular functioning human.