There's no point going in for a job that you don't want to do Harb. Follow what you enjoy. Happiness is more important than money. This is something that you will be doing day in, day out until you're in your 60s, probably a lot later than that by the time we reach that age. You've got to be happy doing that, or you're just wasting your life. You could work a crane for 10 hours a day, but that isn't enough for people like you. You know it yourself. Do you really think you're the type of person to be confined by manual labour? No offense to the people in that industry of course, but you're too smart for that. Put your abilities to good use. Don't worry about not being good enough. I've said time and time again that talent isn't the thing that matters in art. It's generally irrelevant if you take into account practice and hard work. The fact that you're creative is just as important as technical skill, don't forget this. The ability to be creative will take you father than skill on its own. As I said, everyone can make good art with a lot of skill, but it's only with imagination that art can truly become unique and actually interesting. The execution to put what you want onto paper will come with time.
I also don't think that the graphics industry is as hard to get into as you think. Look around you for a moment. How much of that has been designed by a graphics designer? There is a lot of people that need to be in that industry, and this isn't something that is going to change. In fact, chances are it's going to become more and more prominent as time progresses and as technology becomes better and better. The sentiment that only the best can become designers seems a little off to me as well. Again, look around you for a moment. Would you consider all of the graphical things around you to be actually good, both technically and aesthetically? I wouldn't. Couldn't you just go into the same kind of choice that you were offered for the cranes? Get an apprenticeship or internship at a graphics studio or something like that and earn while you learn. It's the same thought process as learning to operate a crane while doing it on the job, only with this you'll be actually aiming for something meaningful to the self. That's just my two cents about your rambling there harb. I am not you, so of course I have no control over your decisions, but it's what I would do anyway. In fact, it is what I'm working towards at the moment. You could probably call me naive for thinking this way. But I think that I'll end up being happy if I keep going the way I'm going.
As for the rest of the blog. It was good. I liked reading it anyway.
I would protect the asker’s right to request, and probably wouldn’t interfere with the request directly. It’s up to the members of the forum if they consider it just to be assisting someone in what they know to be a shady activity.
Agreed with this Matt. It's a thought process which some of the people on this forum need to get their head around I think.
