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15 years ago
Why do people ask you for your opinion only to get mad at you when you give it to them?
I was chatting on blackplanet chat with an artist friend of mine. He's good enough to be a professional artist and he asked me if I think that he should pursue a career in art, specifically selling paintings. I told him that I think that he should persue his passion and look for jobs that can utilize his artistic talents but I also told him that he should also learn something else just in case his artistic dreams don't come true that way he'll have something to fall back on. He called me a pessimist and said I was bogus for not having faith in him. I told him that I did have faith in him but selling art is hard especially in this economy and while it's nice to have, art is not a necessity that people NEED to have. People are spending their money on more important things. I said he should learn other marketable skills so he can supplement his income until he gets his big break but he just didn't want to hear that. I was just trying to give my friend some realistic advice and now he's mad. He and I tend to disagree on a lot of things so it's nothing new for him to get mad at me it just baffles me why he asks me things when he knows how I'll respond and he still gets upset.
I was chatting on blackplanet chat with an artist friend of mine. He's good enough to be a professional artist and he asked me if I think that he should pursue a career in art, specifically selling paintings. I told him that I think that he should persue his passion and look for jobs that can utilize his artistic talents but I also told him that he should also learn something else just in case his artistic dreams don't come true that way he'll have something to fall back on. He called me a pessimist and said I was bogus for not having faith in him. I told him that I did have faith in him but selling art is hard especially in this economy and while it's nice to have, art is not a necessity that people NEED to have. People are spending their money on more important things. I said he should learn other marketable skills so he can supplement his income until he gets his big break but he just didn't want to hear that. I was just trying to give my friend some realistic advice and now he's mad. He and I tend to disagree on a lot of things so it's nothing new for him to get mad at me it just baffles me why he asks me things when he knows how I'll respond and he still gets upset.
He'z Still Pretty lame Goin off on u Tho....
i think the advice you gave your friend was very calm and reasonable o_O i have certificate 1 in basic welding and could easily persue an apprenticeship in it to get better skills for a job. there's tonnes of welding apprenticeships just in this small area of the city alone. so i have that to fall back on if my art/tattooing goes to shit. i know it's damn hard to get anywhere with artwork.
yeah i was going to but i'd be under a 3 year contract and i've seen what it can do to your eyes..
if things go down the shitter then i will persue it, but otherwise i think i'll wait and see if tattooing takes off well enough. that's $
tattooing is $150 an hour. and it's a huge market, and i'm being trained by a guy who's been doing it for over 20 years and has a very high reputation. so it should go well once i can work full time =3 i already have a truckload of customers waiting.