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Except they probably work every waking hour. There's no reason (especially if you're creative/artist) that you can't get the security of a 40 hour a week job an
by ojbyrne 17y ago
Except they probably work every waking hour. There's no reason (especially if you're creative/artist) that you can't get the security of a 40 hour a week job and be creative the rest of the time.
- nitrogen 17y agoIn my experience, having a regular 40-hour-a-week job really destroys my creativity. There's more to being creative than just having some time to spend on creative projects; after doing lots of monotonous things for someone else I used to find myself completely unmotivated to do anything. I think this relates to the feeling among creative types that some business management types don't understand that creativity isn't measured in hours. To tie it into YC, think of the manager's schedule vs. the maker's schedule. A few hours a day after working eight hours for someone else isn't really enough time to get into creative mode.
- ojbyrne 17y agoSome notable counterexamples - Wallace Stevens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens) and Albert Einstein's time in the swiss patent office. Creativity is often defined by constraints, like lack of time. Though my experience tends to agree with yours.