Making Art is for Me, Making You Something is Work
It’s an interesting thing, whenever I tell someone what I do for a living (freelance design/brand strategy), they always proposition me with a new venture they’re working on and tell me it’s “right up my alley.”
No, it’s not.
It’s right up your alley.
A few years ago when I started my career, I always had a rule where I never talked about work. I didn’t care to talk about work, because work is not life. Work is your means to an end. I care about what you do in your off hours, what makes you essentially you, what motivates you, what your passions are.
I lost myself for a really long time because I decided to do drugs, and I am just now coming back to me, a painful 15 months later. During that time, all I could do was talk about work, and how to scheme to make money, and how I am gonna be rich and famous one day.
I’ve finally put my feet back down on Earth.
Now, I go back to not talking about work.
“What do you do for work?”
“It’s not important.”
Because, honestly, it’s not.
~Jess
