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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I just felt that I'd quote this comment of twItch^'s, because it was just so right. Do what you love, and be happy, dammit! What's so tough about that to understand? [quote]The hours and hours I spend in front of a machine making things for the 'Net (or for print, which I also do a wealth of) is put into the category of [i]Time Well Spent[/i], because I love it.[/quote] When I was 30, (lo, these 13 years past now) I had my own design company in Manhattan, designing and building custom furniture for rich new yorkers. My office was out of my home, and I had a factory out in Queens. I made good money but spent most of it just making ends meet, and paying the cabinetmakers. Here's the point though, I HATED IT!!! I was a whore, I designed crappy, ugly, (well-made! =) things based off of specifications of people who didn't know what looked good, and I got paid for it. I had a "crisis of confidence", some kinda mid-life crisis, maybe 10 years early. So! I sold my company at a loss, took my money and moved to Minnesota where I had some friends. I took a job paying $5.50/hour as a junior printers asistant in a big printing company, had access to millions of dollars of cool toys on my off-time, and tried getting back to my art. Along the way, I ended up with some IRS difficulties and instead of having a big nest egg, I was now broke. But still, oddly enough, happy. (Go figger.) I stayed with this firm for 7 years, eventually becoming general manager. Along the way I got back into computers, and in 1994 left them to get into this whole "web design" thing. Why am I telling this story again? The whole point is, MONEY IS SHIT, and happiness is everything. Do what you want, don't worry about the pay if you don't have a family to feed and clothe, and count yourself lucky if you get to do what you like to do. Givne enough time, you'll make the big bucks if that's what's important to you, but for now, don't count on it, the market really is kind of tough, you're not imagining it! Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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