somewhat disappointed that I never seriously pursued creative arts (beyond a hobbyist level) also somewhat relieved that I don’t feel like enough of a Proper Artist to create significant dissonance with my Mainstream Business Career
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the american university system encourages creative young people to pursue liberal arts degrees (i.e. become unmarketable young adults at great personal expense) without making much of an effort to let students know what they’re graduating into
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unless creatives have family money, or are willing to live on a shoestring budget (which many are!), they’re usually forced to enter an available occupation that nominally resembles their medium of interest
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writers can become content marketers/corporate bloggers or social media managers passionate musicians might join session bands, or enter the music label machinery visual artists get by creating logos and corporate ephemera, or become ux/ui designers
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Sahil Lavingia
the market only provides a very limited number of those ‘pure’ creative jobs many of these jobs (mainstream entertainers) are glamorized and lucrative, which actually creates even more extreme competition around them and even successful entertainers don’t have stability:https://twitter.com/shl/status/1207113130863542272 …
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meanwhile, each year hundreds of thousands of students graduate with liberal arts degrees, many of them with crippling student debt and a very poor understanding of where they might fit into the economy
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for a young artist, $100k could be much better spent on creating art, not funding an already-bloated 4 year university but of course, a teenager wouldn’t be able to get a loan that large for anything besides a college degree
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federally backed college loans and the surrounding legislation are ostensibly well-meaning, but result in disastrous and predatory behaviors in practice (as well as $1.6 TRILLION in bad debt owed to the USA) but that’s a conversation for another day
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