• Inspirational advice: Give up now
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Probably the most realistic advice I ever heard [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JgG0ECp2U[/media]
If you give up because someone tells you to, you never had a chance to begin with.
(it's still a joke)
[QUOTE=momoiro;50697510]If you give up because someone tells you to, you never had a chance to begin with.[/QUOTE] I'm fairly sure that the point is "even if you work harder than anyone, there's no guarantee for success, so don't stretch yourself thin". Even if you have massive dreams you're willing to work yourself to blood to achieve it, you need to be realistic and consider the world you actually live in.
I say go for it, give it your best shot. If you enjoy giving it your best shot and youre passionate about it.
god this guy was never fucking funny to begin with. :v:
I don't really see the problem with what he's saying, because I think there's already a really heavy importance we arbitrarily make on making it big. People learn to be unhappy with being small, and that's a problem.
"Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lotto winner telling you to liquidize your assets and spend it all on powerball" As someone struggling from paycheck to paycheck that has a lot of ambitious goals and used to have a lot of guilt tied to being nowhere close to fulfilling those goals, this rings pretty fucking true. I want to note that doing what you enjoy for a living doesn't necessarily require achieving a 1/1000000 chance at being a superstar. I want to work in the visual arts, and while I'd certainly love to work on a major project and proliferate my work in a way that the whole world would see I know that I'm not going to be a failure if that doesn't happen. To recall how Dave Chappelle put it, and I'm going totally going to butcher this, but I could make what a gas station attendant makes and be happy as long as I was doing what I loved. And I constantly hear people I know bemoan with some level of guilt that they can't draw/act/sing/perform etc like it's some part of a checkbox that they have to feel to be a complete person. If you do anything well that you don't hate doing and can make a little money at, even if that's managing a retail store or working as a mechanic, you're doing ok in my book.
[QUOTE=DiscoMelon;50700855]"Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lotto winner telling you to liquidize your assets and spend it all on powerball" As someone struggling from paycheck to paycheck that has a lot of ambitious goals and used to have a lot of guilt tied to being nowhere close to fulfilling those goals, this rings pretty fucking true. I want to note that doing what you enjoy for a living doesn't necessarily require achieving a 1/1000000 chance at being a superstar. I want to work in the visual arts, and while I'd certainly love to work on a major project and proliferate my work in a way that the whole world would see I know that I'm not going to be a failure if that doesn't happen. [B]To recall how Dave Chappelle put it, and I'm going totally going to butcher this, but I could make what a gas station attendant makes and be happy as long as I was doing what I loved.[/B] And I constantly hear people I know bemoan with some level of guilt that they can't draw/act/sing/perform etc like it's some part of a checkbox that they have to feel to be a complete person. If you do anything well that you don't hate doing and can make a little money at, even if that's managing a retail store or working as a mechanic, you're doing ok in my book.[/QUOTE] Definitely this. I am living off of my Patreon for my art. As of right now, I am living off about $1600 a month (my Patreon has more pledged to it, but a lot of the pledges fall through - I only got about 55% of my pledged amount in the June -> July cycle). I live in a college town, sharing an apartment with 3 other people, and between rent, student loans, groceies, and helping pay off my parents' part of my student loans (an agreement we made when I went to uni), my living expenses are about $1300/mo. I'm not living quite paycheck to paycheck, but $200 to $300 a month for saving isn't a huge amount - especially since, over the past 2 weeks, I had both my car battery fail [B]and[/B] my hard drive fail, which netted me over $200 in emergency purchases. But the important thing is, I am [B]happy[/B]. I have been able to take something I did as a hobby since a freshman in university, and somehow turn it into my career. I literally spend 12-16 hours every day doing my hobby, and [B]living[/B] off it. I don't care if I'm not making thousands of dollars with a "real" job, or even that i'm making less than some of my friends in the field. All that matters to me is that I have a roof over my head, food in my refrigerator, and am doing what I love doing.
[QUOTE=fudge blood;50699753]god this guy was never fucking funny to begin with. :v:[/QUOTE] Nah dude his shows are pretty fucking amazing. I saw Make Happy live in Orlando and it was outstanding. It's on Netflix if you wanna check it out.
[QUOTE=DiscoMelon;50700855]"Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lotto winner telling you to liquidize your assets and spend it all on powerball" but I could make what a gas station attendant makes and be happy as long as I was doing what I loved. [/QUOTE] But this is what Taylor swift (and other celebrities, famous people, really anybody that says this) means when they say follow your dreams if you don't follow your dreams and end up doing something you hate, then what's the point?
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