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[emchy]

if you had the choice between your dream job
but it meant that you had to reject your last chance
for studying / mastering your art for three years
which could result in dream-esque jobs and art success
but uncertain employment options with student debt.

what would you do?

art vs commerce

real life vs dreams

what would YOU do?

it sounds simple, but is it?
we're talking DREAM job.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

At this point? Easy choice. Dream job. I am totally over the option of uncertain employment options plus (more) debt. Stability is nothing to be sniffed at. Stability plus doing something I like and want to do for money? No contest.

[borggrrl.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[odelenu.livejournal.com]

If the dream job meant health insurance, financial stability, vacations and the rest then I would stick to the job. You can always create art in your time off and have the money to create the art you want instead of the art you have to do coz you are restricted my monetary concerns. Of course in a free world the choices would be the other way around, but this country does not support artists, students or anyone else with a creative bent. I introduce my dreams to my reality. It works better long term.

[nickdandy.livejournal.com]

Dream job. I think its a lot harder to come accross a dream job, let alone a good job than it is education, which will always be there. You may also find a way to manage the education in addition too. Plus, what gets you more work now is more about whats on your resume.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

My problem with the question is that at this point in my life, a dream job would entail moving forward with my art.

You can always go back to school. (I did ... twice now.) Dream jobs are hard to come by.

[black-pearl-10.livejournal.com]

Ditto.
Dream Job.

[liquid-siftings.livejournal.com]

I'll echo a lot of what's been said here. Dream jobs do not come around very often. Also, opportunities to go back to school will reappear, so you won't be closing that door permanently.

[geishaghost.livejournal.com]

just make sure it's your dream. for me, giving up my art, even for awhile, would be unbearable right now. but that's just me, right now. ;p

[crayonbeam.livejournal.com]

if dream job turns out to be the wrong choice, how much will you have lost by taking it and then leaving it? would you really have to wait three years?

i've taken my dream job, so I guess you could say i've made my choice, but i'm not an artist. housemate artist, who gets to be an artist most of the time, is applying for a job. i don't really get it.

[glamtasm.livejournal.com]

If it were truly a dream job (to an artistically inclined person) then chances are that within it would be hands on opportunities to perfect their art as well as make money, rather than putting it off for another three years and acruing more debt. Cos after all, isn't the reason for all that school to get a degree that makes one's art appear more marketable in the first place. If that can be streamlined, then jump ahead two spaces by all means.

The fine tuning and perfecting of one's art isn't done in a classroom anyway, it is done by the doing.

RISD SUCKS!

[angry-butterfly.livejournal.com]

Take the job, no question.