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What are you basing this on? Most of the artists I've met either work in film, television, advertising or video games. I've worked as both an artist and a devel
by dorkwood 6y ago
What are you basing this on? Most of the artists I've met either work in film, television, advertising or video games. I've worked as both an artist and a developer and your categorization doesn't strike me as common.
Also one of the artists I was talking about, who quit to work on NFTs, was design director at one of the world's biggest agencies, so not exactly waiting tables.
- neilk 6y agoI was basing it on the finest anecdata! But yes, I was thinking about artists waiting tables. My spouse works in theatre, and it's normal even for modestly successful actors and artists to be working service jobs. I have asked why they worked those kinds of jobs when they were clearly smart enough to have better-paying white collar jobs, and they always say that quittability was one of their top concerns. In the period where one could live in San Francisco for a non-insane amount of money, I knew lots of visual artists and sculptors who lived like that. (Anyway, all of them are now coding or have left.) I don't mean to contradict your experience: the word "artist" covers a pretty wide swathe.
- dorkwood 6y agoThats ok! I guess we both have slightly different experiences. Thanks for sharing that additional context.