So, after six nightmare shifts, I have deided that I am going to quit my new job. Yes, already. But with coworkers constantly fighting with each other, managers being exceptionally rude to me, and people talking about me behind my back (plus, I also burnt my arm and now I have a big ugly scar that has every possibility to be permanent or close to it), I knew that this place was highly toxic and things were only going to get worse if I stayed. I haven't officially told anyone that I quit yet, but at the same time, I was still in training, and none of the bosses wanted to take any responsibilty for ensuring my welbeing, so I knew things were gonna suck more if I stuck it out.

So, that being said, I am currently in job limbo. I have sent an email over to my previous employer asking if it would be possible to get my job back with them (not that that environment was very PHYSICALLY healthy for me, but at least I had friends at that job, and the one boss who pretty much hated me for no real reason has left the company too.) However, again, there is still no guarantee that I will be able to get my job there back in the first place.

That being said, I think I am going to try to be more active with growing my art as a CAREER rather than just a monitized hobby. I will admit, I have no idea how to properly get Ko-Fi followers (or what even to POST to Ko-Fi to begin with), and consistently posting and marketing myself on non-gallery social media is a real crapshoot (and the places are just cesspools to begin with; I don't know why I even give social media the time of day...), so anybody with more experience with marketing themselves and of actually running a creative business. Especially since executive dysfunction is just... hitting me hard. Especially right now.

But I'm trying my best to remain optimistic. Working at a grocery store was never my life's dream anyway, and I'm still only 24, and have a whole lot of time ahead of me to figure stuff out. And if anything, I got a good lesson from all of this, which can basically be summed up to leave the baking to the professionals. You're meant to be a fursuit maker, or an animator, or an illustrator, or some other type of creative.

But yeah, comms reopen as of now. Feel free to spread around info as possible.