>TL;DR should I quit my wagie job and do art full time, or just work harder on my art and keep the wagie job for the money?
I want to quit my wagie job to go fulltime on art and animation, and already have been working for a startup at $15/hr. I have $45k that I made in crypto so I can afford the risk.
Problem is, I actually like the wagie job sometimes. It’s a small business situation and while we’ve been understaffed and I’ve been working a lot, I’m still only working 20 hours a week with plenty of days off. Tips are good too, I pull maybe $20/hr per night on average, $25/hr on good nights. I’ve been drawing for maybe 5 hours a week, maximum, even for my animation job which isn’t a bottleneck YET, but it will be the more responsibilities I take on. And I need to be more involved because this is the only thing pushing my career forward right now.
I’ve been at this job for so long and Covid pushed me out of going to life drawing classes in college so I just fell out altogether. I’ve been doing this shit for so long that I don’t even remember who I anymore or what it was that I was doing. When I sit down with my own work I barely remember where I left off.
I’m wondering if I actually need to quit my job to do animation fulltime or if I’m just being a pussy and need to work harder on my animation job and push myself to working 40hrs/week. I’ve never done well in school and I’ve never worked 40 hr work weeks, I’m not a conscientious person and I can’t see myself doing a 180 on this. I kind of want the Steven King life of waking up at 8am, working on my art till 12pm, and taking care of all my other life responsibilities for the rest of the day. But I could also just be being lazy. I just feel too tired to want to draw after work, but I still play video games so maybe I really am just lazy.
I want to quit my wagie job to go fulltime on art and animation, and already have been working for a startup at $15/hr. I have $45k that I made in crypto so I can afford the risk.
Problem is, I actually like the wagie job sometimes. It’s a small business situation and while we’ve been understaffed and I’ve been working a lot, I’m still only working 20 hours a week with plenty of days off. Tips are good too, I pull maybe $20/hr per night on average, $25/hr on good nights. I’ve been drawing for maybe 5 hours a week, maximum, even for my animation job which isn’t a bottleneck YET, but it will be the more responsibilities I take on. And I need to be more involved because this is the only thing pushing my career forward right now.
I’ve been at this job for so long and Covid pushed me out of going to life drawing classes in college so I just fell out altogether. I’ve been doing this shit for so long that I don’t even remember who I anymore or what it was that I was doing. When I sit down with my own work I barely remember where I left off.
I’m wondering if I actually need to quit my job to do animation fulltime or if I’m just being a pussy and need to work harder on my animation job and push myself to working 40hrs/week. I’ve never done well in school and I’ve never worked 40 hr work weeks, I’m not a conscientious person and I can’t see myself doing a 180 on this. I kind of want the Steven King life of waking up at 8am, working on my art till 12pm, and taking care of all my other life responsibilities for the rest of the day. But I could also just be being lazy. I just feel too tired to want to draw after work, but I still play video games so maybe I really am just lazy.
