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What jobs taught me as a young person

January 30, 2023

I started working on weekends and summers when I turned 14. My very first job was cleaning hotel rooms. The cigarette smoke and weird smells of the aerosol cleaners weren’t a great combination (and people can be really gross), but I could walk to work and…

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In Creativity, Life of an artist Tags art is stories, early jobs, life of an artist, working crappy jobs, working fun jobs, learning on the fly, minimum wage jobs in the 80s, ghost painting, factory work in the 80s, Hersheypark happy, the positive side of cleaning houses for a living, lessons you learn from a job
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Ass-in-the-seat Time

November 29, 2022

Students, artists in particular, get frustrated with the seeming lack of speed on their journey to “success” (whatever that might mean). And I get it. I quit art school (the first time in the 80s) with one semester to go because I was offered a job “ghost” painting with a professional illustrator. I mean, the choice of go to school or make money and art….

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In Creativity, Illustration, Art Education Tags career, art students, time, ghost painting

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