I’ll be attending SXSW Interactive later this week and this weekend. This will be my third year in attendance, and my goal is to try to land some kind of decent job. Or maybe to start collaborating with someone on something fun, creative and hopefully financially remunerative.
This is definitely not something that comes terribly naturally to me. I’m not antisocial or anything, but I’m used to working on my own and so the schmoozing aspect takes a lot of energy. But these days, if you want to stay working, you have to really hustle. I’m really tired of working three times harder for one third of the pay.
It’s no wonder that so many great cartoonists have quit.
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Ted, your lament about cartoonists is true. But it’s the same in so many creative fields that it’s heartbreaking. Whatever work you look for, no one wants to pay enough to live on. What you get, instead, is a big shit-infused sandwich of “Work smarter, not harder. No one owes you a living. You’re to blame. Maybe you should scale back your expectations. You can’t expect everything to go your way.”
And the sandwich is inevitably rammed down your throat by someone who already made his pile of money.