Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Thinking about Yo Career

You know when you go onto Wikipedia to look at someone famous and usually you bee line straight for " Personal Life "? Well, nowadays i'm starting to bee-line straight for "Career" even though i usually ignore that section completely because it's BORING. We all want to know about their personal lives more don't we? Who they're seeing, who they aren't quite seeing anymore, where they've lived, how rich they are/were.

Well, what interests me more now is how people become successful in their careers. It's such an elusive, mysterious and blurry thing to define. In the old days, people attributed success and fame with talent. But as John Baldessari states, " Talent is Cheap " and boy am i inclined to agree. What i believe more than ever now is that careers can be made by three simple things. Right place and right time, right connections and right market. But more than anything it's to do with right timing. Careers seem to be made by a snow-balling effect. You get one gig, then another, then another one and eventually after a couple of hundred you land the gig of your dreams.

My career as a writer isn't anywhere near as progressed as i wish it to be and i'm starting to feel like i'm at that point where most writers drop off the scene and go onto something else. If we aren't picked up by the gods of luck and time, then we all struggle to keep doing this thing that we really love and really want to be known for but eventually stop because it's just so damn hard.
I feel like noone cares about what i do, that noone will ever notice me and that i'm working so hard for nothing. That's another thing about careers, we believe that hard work is a big thing but it's more about hard persistence instead. I'm being tested right now and i intend to keep going forward. But at the same time... why should i if there's no guarantee that i'll achieve anything?

I'm struggling with the fact that all writers who want to write for a living or to have people notice their writing need an audience. You can write because you love it, but would you really feel motivated to keep writing if all your writing was falling on deaf ears/eyes? This is what i'm struggling the most with, not knowing if my work will ever truly be received, noticed and that i'll ever get anywhere with what i love doing the most in life.


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