I have been walled in at work, literally. At one time I had the largest “office” on site. My “office” was located in a large room used to store all the A/V equipment, old tapes, media, poster and framing stuff along with my graphic producing, video editing Mac and the crappy company PC used to get email and get on the LAN. It was a big space and I had it all to myself.
Because of reasons beyond my control, This beautiful space I had to play my iPod while I worked has been divided into two cubicles. One for me and my equipment and one for my boss. Now I like my boss, but nobody needs to live in the cube right next to the boss.
She began moving her stuff into her new cube attached to mine and I realized that my kingdom would be no more. Instead of living in the one peaceful place on site, playing my music while working in my own little world, I would be listening to the boss on the phone or with someone or having to respond to the voice coming over the cubicle wall. I had it so good for awhile and every good thing must come to an end.
A friend of mine recently suggested that I read the book What Color is Your Parachute to help me to figure out what to do for my career. I need to make the time to read this and think about what I want to do. If you’ve been following this blog you know I am more than a little unhappy with my job. It is a depressing and non creative place to work. I could go on and on, but that’s not why you are here. You can go to your own water cooler to hear people complain about their job. All I know is I am determined to do something better, more satisfying, and good.
Here’s my plan so far. Without a plan there is nothing to do but complain.
I am writing this blog for one. So far with the google ads I have made about $2.88. Pretty impressive. I can almost buy a sandwich. I am selling art on etsy .com HERE. I am trying to get the artwork hanging where people can see it – that is key. It may look cool on this blog, but it is spectacular in person. I need to find the time to make contact with businesses that display art. I have one connection (Thanks Maria!) and I will be calling soon. I also am looking into art shows, although the overhead to get started is more than the $2.88 I have laying around.
Yes, I need to hammer out some more specifics for this plan, but I am training for the DK 200 and I work 10 hours a day and with the commute 12 hour a day, plus I write this spectacular blog and I have three kids at home. Yeah, I know excuses, excuses.
On a more cool note, I ordered some mini cards to have with me and hand out to everyone I can. I ordered a bunch using different types of substrate to check them out. Nothing against my faithful 41 fans, I love you. Thanks for reading, emailing and leaving comments – it makes me feel like I am on the right track. I am just thinking about all the free stuff I will get with more readers. Since I can’t win a race, maybe I will get free stuff if I have enough readers. And this is a promise – when I do get all my free stuff I will share with my faithful fans.
My mini cards
Feed Your Monkey!
-Eric
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