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IMO, there are more steps. Do what you love for work, someone will exploit you for it, and break your heart. One of my kids has taken this advice, does art (re
by hinkley 7mo ago
IMO, there are more steps. Do what you love for work, someone will exploit you for it, and break your heart.
One of my kids has taken this advice, does art (really good art) for themselves and is pursuing a STEM career instead. The other is pursuing a game dev career, despite every current and former dev in his life warning him off for the last fifteen years. To quote Kissing Jessica Stein, “OY! This child will suffer.”
- ChrisMarshallNY 7mo agoBack in the day, I was a fairly good artist[0]. I was good enough to get work, and pursue a career, although I don’t know how successful I would have been. Fortunately, I also really enjoyed tech, and figured that even a mediocre programmer would do better than a top-shelf fantasy artist. Back then (hard to believe, these days), competition was a lot less prevalent, in tech, and was brutal, in art. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886