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8 months ago
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This header requires Fur Affinity Premium to view. BOO! did I scare you? I am 135 unanswered job applications!
Keeping a light hearted approach on this subject as it is a bit of a gritty one.
Above is true, I have applied to about 142 companies nationwide. Not many responses save for a few that were thankfully a short distance from me. While the silence has been unnerving, I have still committed to the freelance and side gig life to keep some money in pocket. I have seen the videos of how the job force in the US is today and how people are struggling in the so called "land of opportunity". So what next? Liquidate everything and move abroad? Go all in or bust on a whole new venture? Seek investors out for a potential product patent and partnership? These are all drastic measures I will not take, because in my years of working, there is no be all end all solution to financial security on one income alone. So while I am hoarding every penny I can grab, I have been studying more into finance and am wondering if there is anyone in my orbit who does financial services. Long gone are the days I want to keep money locked away, I am looking to put my money to work as my aging body slowly loses it's ability to do the things I used to.
However, I will never stop drawing, 3D, or making other things. After all the nuances of life and the struggle to be truly independent, creating something and using my imagination is what I like to do. I want to keep bringing people actual content. Not a flood of YCH's or Adopts. If you are here to sell something then I personally challenge Furaffinity to divide up galleries and storefronts. Repurpose the commission info page to be more on par with other services that can separate portfolios and products and have a separate "fave" system to follow updates and bids on those. I am not here for self promoting advertisements as a whole gallery, I am here to appreciate the creativity and raw talent of the people I have discovered since 2008. While I do have friends who commercially sell YCH and adoptable content, I think this is a better solution than allowing it to saturate the main page. This can give more visibility to people who want to get out there as a content creator and more visibility to people who want to sell assets for content.
We have the tools and tech to make this possible, don't sit there and tell me as the largest platform for furry art that it cannot be afforded.
Keeping a light hearted approach on this subject as it is a bit of a gritty one.
Above is true, I have applied to about 142 companies nationwide. Not many responses save for a few that were thankfully a short distance from me. While the silence has been unnerving, I have still committed to the freelance and side gig life to keep some money in pocket. I have seen the videos of how the job force in the US is today and how people are struggling in the so called "land of opportunity". So what next? Liquidate everything and move abroad? Go all in or bust on a whole new venture? Seek investors out for a potential product patent and partnership? These are all drastic measures I will not take, because in my years of working, there is no be all end all solution to financial security on one income alone. So while I am hoarding every penny I can grab, I have been studying more into finance and am wondering if there is anyone in my orbit who does financial services. Long gone are the days I want to keep money locked away, I am looking to put my money to work as my aging body slowly loses it's ability to do the things I used to.
However, I will never stop drawing, 3D, or making other things. After all the nuances of life and the struggle to be truly independent, creating something and using my imagination is what I like to do. I want to keep bringing people actual content. Not a flood of YCH's or Adopts. If you are here to sell something then I personally challenge Furaffinity to divide up galleries and storefronts. Repurpose the commission info page to be more on par with other services that can separate portfolios and products and have a separate "fave" system to follow updates and bids on those. I am not here for self promoting advertisements as a whole gallery, I am here to appreciate the creativity and raw talent of the people I have discovered since 2008. While I do have friends who commercially sell YCH and adoptable content, I think this is a better solution than allowing it to saturate the main page. This can give more visibility to people who want to get out there as a content creator and more visibility to people who want to sell assets for content.
We have the tools and tech to make this possible, don't sit there and tell me as the largest platform for furry art that it cannot be afforded.
