$40/hr
Become a nurse. :)

I really doubt any of us on this site--save for some medical staff at best perhaps--even make that ourselves :/

For someone working at a 9-5 job, $40/hour ($83,200 yr) is a lot, but in the big picture it is a low freelance illustrator's wage, which I am an illustrator.

I pretty much know that the targeted person who browses this site is young, and does not exactly know what to do with their life yet, so they're working retail, food or logistic services to pay for whatever. I am kind of in a different age bracket. So in order to have time to better myself, I price myself at $40/hour. Not a lot of people are going to bother me at Furaffinity for a $175-ish color image even though it's considered to be dirt cheap at Behance. It is not like I had a burgeoning clientele when colored and valued pictures were $10/hour anyway, so yeah.

I would need to clarify.

It's really not about getting that rate, but it's about getting the time to work on stuff that would get the chance to better myself. Because to me, happiness and a sense that I am doing something to help myself is more important than money.

getting the time to work on stuff that would *offer the chance* to better myself! Gosh, I hit the "post" button too soon.

no, no. i understand entirely :)

it is hard as **** to get into career you love and enjoy and make the living you'd be able to actually live off of as well :I
trust me, been with my current job for over 7 years and while i love the workplace, coworkers, and even customers (patients in this case--even the ones who are total fuckwods! lol), i barely make shy of 14$/hr while doing 8 departments' worth of work. :/ (including duties that are illegal to do as well <<" non-licensed personnel cannot handle pharmaceuticals! :U lol)


while my comment -did- sound like a bit of a dicked aim, i had meant it with "wages that high you're best off chasing a medical degree like that!"

nurses, law firms, doctors, etc. are like the only careers i can immediately think of that make that high of income, and that's usually closer to starting rates too! :O Hope that you can get something going for sure though. :)

Don't worry about the comment, I knew where you were coming from.

It really sucks about really getting after what you love to do while juggling responsibilities, and yeah health care, law and finance are probably the easiest paths to a better life. But we're still young, so we can still follow our dreams in our free time or something! :]

I wish you luck.hopefully we can see art from you in your free time on occasions .

You probably see something from time to time, but I will probably move focus toward my own platform in maybe 6 months to a year. 9 years and not a lot going tells me that I got to make change.

Hm, If I knew, I would have planned something for you ^^;

I don't think that I knew long before I made the decision. I just needed a bit of time off so I can build something for the future. :]