01-26-2011, 05:40 PM
Thanks everyone, for the replies. As I said, I have been searching some time for a new job, but with no college degree and a limited schedule there just aren't many openings, and the few that exist are in similar jobs that would put me in the same boat as I'm in now, only making less money. That was what happened the last time I tried to switch jobs. Still, I keep looking. I wish I could find a job in art...all I really want to do is make comic books for a living. If only that industry wasn't a total bust right now...
I'm so tired of my job being something I hate, that I slave away at to pay the bills. I know it sounds bad, but a lot of jobs I don't even want to look into because they sound ridiculously boring or stupid or something I'm just not interested in in the least. When I tell people I like to write they tell me I should write advertisements or articles, or when I say I can draw they say I should design product logos or something like that, and it just sounds awful. Aside from the fact that most of those types of jobs require degrees I don't have, all I want to do is write science fiction and make comic books, not write about and design stuff I don't even care about. I hate this looming responsibility to do something I hate all day because I'm obligated to help pay the bills, even though what I really want to do makes no money. I feel bad not applying to jobs I know I would despise, but every time I consider another boring, crap job, it makes me feel like I'm locked in a cage with no way out.
I really wish I hadn't of flunked out of college...for all you young kids out there, don't be like me. Stay in school. Graduate college. A high school degree just isn't enough any more.
I'm so tired of my job being something I hate, that I slave away at to pay the bills. I know it sounds bad, but a lot of jobs I don't even want to look into because they sound ridiculously boring or stupid or something I'm just not interested in in the least. When I tell people I like to write they tell me I should write advertisements or articles, or when I say I can draw they say I should design product logos or something like that, and it just sounds awful. Aside from the fact that most of those types of jobs require degrees I don't have, all I want to do is write science fiction and make comic books, not write about and design stuff I don't even care about. I hate this looming responsibility to do something I hate all day because I'm obligated to help pay the bills, even though what I really want to do makes no money. I feel bad not applying to jobs I know I would despise, but every time I consider another boring, crap job, it makes me feel like I'm locked in a cage with no way out.
I really wish I hadn't of flunked out of college...for all you young kids out there, don't be like me. Stay in school. Graduate college. A high school degree just isn't enough any more.