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noisytenant · 4 months ago

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remembering when i was deep in my joblessness and my father asked me "well what's ONE skill you have that could make you money RIGHT NOW". in a way where i thought he may have already known his answer and wanted to teachable moment me, but i went along...

i thought about it for a long time because well i think i have a lot of skills that could theoretically make me money but i settled on "networking." Because I think I'm very good at connecting people + resources and many jobs benefit from or require that skill. also good networking helps you Get the job. i felt rather shaky in this answer, but i also thought his question was insane, so it was the best i had.

He was like Okay sure but that's not what I was thinking at all. Haven't you considered that your Art could make you money

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#indexed post #He's like poisoned by economy guru people so I figured he'd have a screwball answer #But I truly could not have anticipated him implying that making money off of your art is somehow easy with immediate payoffs #I do think I could get a little walking-around money off it if i devoted effort to it but um that sucks and i don't want to do that #He's a Side Hustle kind of guy. He doesnt have one himself though which is for the better #fathers /

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