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There was an article here, I think, some time ago where an artist responded to a letter a young guy wrote asking about the conflict between art and income. He s
by prewett 2y ago
There was an article here, I think, some time ago where an artist responded to a letter a young guy wrote asking about the conflict between art and income. He said that pretty much all professional artists (musicians, etc.) do art part-time, and that is not even a problem. I think he said it helps focus the art, but I do not actually remember.
Also, at some point you might find that you basically will have what need you for retirement (assuming future investment performance matches past performance, etc.) but not enough to retire now. Half-retiring is an option: work enough to pay expenses but you don't need to save, you just need to not spend the savings.
(Maybe this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507908 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507908 is the posting? The posted link loads a blank page for me, though, so I can't tell.)
- hn_user82179 2y agoI enjoyed your comment. I found that post in the Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20231203154816/https://neontomo.com/blog/permalink.html?post=letter-to-a-young-artist https://web.archive.org/web/20231203154816/https://neontomo.... though I'm not sure that's the one you were thinking of, because the post, while enjoyable, does not seem to have the same theme as what you described
- neontomo 2y agoI am the author of this blog post. thanks for reading and mentioning me, but I also believe it is not the right post.
- garbawarb 2y agoThe problem though is that there's not much opportunity for an engineer to work anything less than full-time. Especially one on a work visa like me. It seems that joining a less-demanding company but stll working full-time is the nearest option. Also, the work visa means I can't earn any income from outside of my employer.