alter ego

[grommet]

Query: What pays your bills? Does yor art sell well, or are you secretly the superhero "Accountant man"? We've seen a few educators, I think...
I'm rethinking my career as a paint whore after being stiffed by an upper-crusty. When the (for sanity) sculpture avenue seems more profitable, I think maybe something's wrong.

[GaryR52]

I've been an architectural/engineering draftsman/CAD technician for 28 years and I'm now training myself for a seque into technical writing as my bread and butter. Meanwhile, I've recently revived my interest in sculpture and I've been working with a few different mediums (including the virtual), exploring non-objective organic forms. I have an entry in Intersculpt 2005 (an international digitial sculpture competition), presently, and I'll be entering more shows as I go and building an inventory of finished work. I had intended to do this over twenty years ago, when I was last into sculpture, but I wasn't in a position to pull it off, then. I aim to make this my full-time career in my retirement years, which will be coming up in about 12 years or so. By then, I figure I'll have a large enough body of work and a mature enough style, plus enough exhibition credits to make for a decent career. Yep, it's late in life, but there are plenty of big names who started their careers late in life. Better late than never, right? ;)

Gary

[Mordachai]

Ah ha,

you almost tricked me......
See if I tell, then you'd all know, and it wouldn't be a secret.


NO really, I do what I can, General maintence and handyman, work for an artist when I can, welding, or making molds,,,,, trying to start a nursery...

Ummm whatever pays the bills...

Have you ever heard of a Sofa Bed Bar Blocker or an Under Vac?????

LMAO

Funniest thing is, Every alter ego has it's own alter-ego!!!

Bwahahahaha

|M|

[Julianna]

I think many of us (http://www.sculpture.net/community/showthread.php?t=1062) have alter egos. It doesn't seem like many artists are able to support themselves entirely on their artwork.

[grommet]

Julianna, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen the thread ... obvoiusly.
I'm grasping at straws here, trying to make up the deficit left by a prominent citizen (read conniving SOB). Perhaps I am suited to do something else that will pay the bills & not leave me standing with my pants down & hand out. (figuratively, of course)

[grommet]

Yep, it's late in life, but there are plenty of big names who started their careers late in life. Better late than never, right?
Absolutely! I myself am the late bloomer sort, with the best/ most satisfying ideas coming later. That's why I have to live to 100 or so... :rolleyes:

Have you ever heard of a Sofa Bed Bar Blocker or an Under Vac?????
LMAO
Funniest thing is, Every alter ego has it's own alter-ego!!!

????????????????

[Mordachai]

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=sofa+bed+bar+blocker&hl=en&hs=vVF&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler

there ya go

should answer your ??????????

LMAO
But seriously,
That's the bread and butter around here so to speak.

I think my alter ego wants it's 2 minutes back now...

[grommet]

LMAO
But seriously,
That's the bread and butter around here so to speak.

I think my alter ego wants it's 2 minutes back now...

well, that doesn't really clear things up. Do you do sales, invent things, or are you the ad spammer?

[Mordachai]

I do it all , but the spam.
I'm anti spam

Definitly anti-spam....

Yep,
Spam free round here...

And more than a little goofy!

[Julianna]

Julianna, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen the thread ... obvoiusly.
I'm grasping at straws here, trying to make up the deficit left by a prominent citizen (read conniving SOB). Perhaps I am suited to do something else that will pay the bills & not leave me standing with my pants down & hand out. (figuratively, of course)

Don't lose faith too quickly! There are more than one way to be successful, but the only way to ensure failure is to quit.

[grommet]

Don't lose faith too quickly! There are more than one way to be successful, but the only way to ensure failure is to quit.

I don't consider leaving an unprofitable career quitting, I consider it wise if one has found a more profitable/ preferable option. But thanks for the pep talk. :)

[Julianna]

I don't consider leaving an unprofitable career quitting, I consider it wise if one has found a more profitable/ preferable option. But thanks for the pep talk. :)

That's a relief! :)