How to dedicate time and energy to creativity, in a world where it doesn't pay?

[Fluffy]

What I’ve really come to realise about my time restraints and inability to create anything tangible is that I don’t have to have anything material to show for it.
Love is an unseen creative energy and we can give that freely all day long in whatever we are doing.
It takes training and practice to ‘love everything’ and the reward is more energy to keep giving more of it

 

[Bluegazer]

Now, we are getting to a point where, even with "decent" pay, an individual is struggling to make ends met. This is a signal from the Universe that networking is one of the keys to survival.

I've been thinking about something like this lately. I think there are a lot of us who can't make ends meet. But just by networking, why not create a bulletin board here with job offers? Make that board both for offers and requests.

Here there are illustrators, designers, musicians, etc. Highly creative professions but with a lot of competition in a merciless market.

Just a thought.

 

[Natus Videre]

I've been thinking about something like this lately. I think there are a lot of us who can't make ends meet. But just by networking, why not create a bulletin board here with job offers? Make that board both for offers and requests.

Here there are illustrators, designers, musicians, etc. Highly creative professions but with a lot of competition in a merciless market.

Just a thought.

Interesting idea. We could also share business ideas or tips. For example, while reading about GenAI, I stumbled upon a marketplace where creators can sell carefully crafted prompts (i.e. text inputs to GenAI; instead of painting Mona Lisa, you textually describe it so well that the AI machine has no other choice than to produce Mona Lisa!). I couldn't believe my eyes!

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