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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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Leap, 8.5” x 11”. Oil on board. 2016.

Leap

November 29, 2022

In a recent interview, I was asked to detail an experience in my life that shaped and empowered me. There were many that formed my early thinking but one really stood out as an “empowering” situation, and really gets at how I move about in the world— then and now, still. I was learning to…

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In Creativity Tags trust, learning on the fly

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