So it feels like a year since I last posted. It was really hard to keep up with blog when I was job searching. Every free bit of energy was spent either looking for a job, trying to complete and sell different creative projects that could have amounted to a job, and when I'd spent every ounce of productive energy I had left, I wallowed in the unemployed depression funk. As of about two weeks ago though I have a job. Unfortunately its another independent contractor gig, and its a little bit of a pay cut in hourly wage and I'm not getting a lot of hours right now but ITS SOMETHING!
You have no idea how much better I feel having a job. I really am one of those people that needs to be productive. So my new position is a the marketing director for this little internet start up one of my dad's partners from his radiology practice is starting that sells t-shirt designs through print on demand t-shirt company called spread shirt. So right now I'm making an hourly wage and if at some point in the future they start hauling in a considerable profit I will get a percentage.
Currently I'm just concentrating on trying to get everything to work and managing the startup operations of the company while coming up with advertising and marketing schemes. You have no idea how much its impacting my sleep to have to deal with super early risers on the east and west coast and a late sleeping artist in Hawaii, but I'm happy to be in charge. Thank goodness for emails. Thankfully my job is entirely over the internet so I can move anywhere I want to. If I can get enough money together for a ticket, security deposit and first months rent I was told I'm at the top of the list for a loft in the china town artist lofts in Hawaii. Actually its really nice that I'll be able to make all my own art and not have to worry about exhausting all my creative juices at work then not being able to create when I get home like I did at PCM. Plus it will be great if I can make this happen to be able to drive to the artist's house if I need to. The thing is that his work looks SUPER familiar, I'm starting to wonder if I know this guy.
Anyway, so my creativity has quite a bit more direction now. I have decided that eventually I want to go back to school and study film/character animation, but that will likely be a while. Till then I'm just going to do my best at whatever I do and try to earn the money I need.
Its nice to have a little more direction.
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On another front, I've got an update on the side business doing discreet portraits for people. I did some nude portraits for a protestant minister in town, and had a query from a small time politician back east in the Carolinas who decided the whole thing was too expensive for them, and since then that business has basically died. They were really fun and tasteful and the customers were extremely satisfied with the results but I think there just isn't a market right now for professional pinup photos for personal use. I'm not interested in working in porn so I'm just going to continue checking the email I set up for the business but unless someone comes looking for my services I'm going to pursue other job opportunities and just leave that on the back burner for now.
