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Life Updates (aka I got a job so art is slow now)
2 years ago
Realized I never really posted anything about this formally over here: I have a job now! For the past 5 months I've been working at a local dispensary and it sorta ended up becoming an unexpected dream job, lmao.
Working full time has been a really big and weird change for me. Art has been my sole source of income for a while (at least the past 2 years), but that also meant a lot of my life was mainly built around online communities. So suddenly having a bustling IRL life with a new social circle has been a welcome change, but also a very difficult one to get used to! I don't have the time or energy to commit to art like I used to before, and that's something that has really been messing with me. Enough to the point where I wanted to write this journal, anyway.
For the time being, art uploads will continue to be quite slow around here. You may have noticed that adoptables are the main thing I've been doing around here recently; as much as I miss doing personal art or even commissions, it's really been a rough game of time and energy vs my creative wants and desires 💀 I'm really really hoping that I'll be able to draw and upload more sometime next year once I get more comfortable and situated with all these big changes (since it has been a LOT in a very small amount of time), but for the meantime, I expect this dry spell to continue for a bit longer. (Especially since I'm trying to apartment hunt and dear God is shit expensive 😭)
So yeah- that's my situation! Basically transitioning from a mostly-online life to a mostly-irl life and getting swept up in it all. I've honestly been struggling a bit since I feel guilty for feeling like I've just... totally abandoned all my online circles/friends and I really hate that. :( But oh well. Hopefully the newness will die down and I will adjust and find a healthy balance for both!!
Whew, that was a lot, haha. I'd love to hear if anyone else has gone thru anything similar and if there was anything they did/do to better balance their online and offline lives?? I still love this community and art and drawing and I'm sad I can't engage with any of it as much! 😭
... And aside from all of that, happy holidays to you guys, and thanks so much to you fine folks who continue to support me even through this dry spell! xP
Working full time has been a really big and weird change for me. Art has been my sole source of income for a while (at least the past 2 years), but that also meant a lot of my life was mainly built around online communities. So suddenly having a bustling IRL life with a new social circle has been a welcome change, but also a very difficult one to get used to! I don't have the time or energy to commit to art like I used to before, and that's something that has really been messing with me. Enough to the point where I wanted to write this journal, anyway.
For the time being, art uploads will continue to be quite slow around here. You may have noticed that adoptables are the main thing I've been doing around here recently; as much as I miss doing personal art or even commissions, it's really been a rough game of time and energy vs my creative wants and desires 💀 I'm really really hoping that I'll be able to draw and upload more sometime next year once I get more comfortable and situated with all these big changes (since it has been a LOT in a very small amount of time), but for the meantime, I expect this dry spell to continue for a bit longer. (Especially since I'm trying to apartment hunt and dear God is shit expensive 😭)
So yeah- that's my situation! Basically transitioning from a mostly-online life to a mostly-irl life and getting swept up in it all. I've honestly been struggling a bit since I feel guilty for feeling like I've just... totally abandoned all my online circles/friends and I really hate that. :( But oh well. Hopefully the newness will die down and I will adjust and find a healthy balance for both!!
Whew, that was a lot, haha. I'd love to hear if anyone else has gone thru anything similar and if there was anything they did/do to better balance their online and offline lives?? I still love this community and art and drawing and I'm sad I can't engage with any of it as much! 😭
... And aside from all of that, happy holidays to you guys, and thanks so much to you fine folks who continue to support me even through this dry spell! xP
And, of course, as a fan, I hope you still have time for art sometime -- but regardless of whether you do, enjoy wherever life takes you!
But that's great great great otherwise! Work you enjoy and a social life keeping in the meat space rather than the digital world.