Most creative person basically has 2 kinds of jobs:- One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.
A good example is a friend of mine, whom is a owner of a bookstore selling second-hand book by day ("Cash") but also a anime & manga painter by night ("Sex"). Or anorther example would be Nicholas Cage where one year he'll be in an ultra blockbuster flick like Face-Off ("Sex"), anorther he'll be in some forgettable, big-budget thriller like Bangkok Dangerous ("Cash").
Or painters. you spend one month painting blue pictures because that's the color the celebrity collectors are buying this season ("Cash"), you spend the next month painting red pictures because secretly you despise the color blue and love red ("Sex").
Or geeks. You spend your weekdays writting code for a faceless corporation ("Cash"), then you spend your evenings and weekend writting anarchic, weird computer games to amuse your techie friends ("Sex").
It's balancing the need to make a good living while maintaining one's creative sovereignty. My modus operandi is being a corporate lawyer during the day ("Cash") and by night or my free time expressing my thoughts, no matter how weird or absurd on my blog ("Sex").
This tense duality will always play center state. It will never be transcended. As soon as you accept this, for some reason your career starts moving ahead faster. I don't know why this happens.
It's the people who refuse to cleave their lives this way - who just want to start day one by quitting their current crappy day job and moving straight on over to bestselling author - well, they never make it.
The point is, keep your day job, but dont ignore the 'sexy' creative part of you. Life would be more fulfilling.
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