Angry Young Man

Angry Young Man

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About once every couple of weeks I get frustrated. This is mostly due to my financial/work situation. I am an illustrator/artist/writer and all around freelancer for those who didn’t know. For sometime I have been searching for a good paying part time job (anything over $10/hour and not retail/selling/customer service, as I have done these jobs and hated them) to help even out the financial ups and downs. Last fall things were looking good. I started working at a local college in the ceramics dept. The pay was good and the work was enjoyable in a field I love. It was great. Unfortunately, my position was given to an adjunct professor with more seniority that was on sabbatical last semester. Needless to say this is hurting me very much financially. On top of this I haven’t gotten any freelance work in for about 4 -6 weeks. This has been slowly raising my stress level. I find myself increasingly frustrated and angry. If you read the article Educated, Intelligent, Hard Working: Un-hirable, then you know how hard it has been to find work these days. It use to be that there were at least things to apply to online. Now all there seems to be are non paying internships and work from home schemes. People tell me to be patient or offer career advice, but for the most part it isn’t that their ideas are bad, just not accessible. No one seems to be hiring. I am hoping that I get another T.A. position in the same college’s art gallery. However, that position won’t open up for another 7 months if I get it. Ultimately, what happens is that I take whatever self-pity and frustration and focus it to galvanize myself to continue to push forward, to keep networking, emailing, searching, researching, writing and creating. I hope that if I fuse my passions and keep putting them out there something will break. All I can do is to rely on myself, because clearly I can’t rely on anyone else, and have hope that tomorrow will be better then today.