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Hey, it's another "internet cool peeps, please give me some advice" thread. Because y'all are cool. And I needed to put this somewhere.

I have the choice to move at the end of the summer, with a job, if I stay with my company. I've worked for a "natural foods market" for about four years now. I use the parenthesis because I think the term "natural" is ironic. Anyways. I could move to a few different places because we have stores all around, and we're opening new stores all the time. Sooooo, while I could potentially go somewhere cool, I'd still be working the same old job, living the same basic lifestyle, which I am in drastic need of changing. So I ask, to those of you who do stuff that you more or less enjoy for a living, what do you do? I need some "career" ideas, because art and music are what I like to do, but they don't pay the bills.

I'm probably the wrong person to ask for job/career ideas because I'm still unemployed.

I'd say as much as you hate your job, keep it until you're sure you have something better lined up.

Changing locations does help temporarily though.

I say wait till you get here before you say you'll be in the same ol same ol... How about tryin to make $$$ off that sweet art???

Give up. You suck. Leave your job. Live on the street.

Also acceptable.

Company I work for is blowing up like crazy. We've hired a couple hundred people over the past few months.
Makerbot.com/careers

skimping by on the skin of your ass and barely having any money is the only way to go

if you have a solid job, don't leave it unless you have something else lined up. the job market is still mega-fucked. use the potential transfer to try and select somewhere you'd like more than where you are.

wsas3 wrote:Company I work for is blowing up like crazy. We've hired a couple hundred people over the past few months.
Makerbot.com/careers

Wow a ton of jobs there...

sonidero wrote:I say wait till you get here before you say you'll be in the same ol same ol... How about tryin to make $$$ off that sweet art???

This is something I'm very bad at, somehow. Maybe I'm just allergic to self-promotion....... Plus, I'd like something at least kind of stable.

Not to steal your thread, but if I'm making roughly $1,500 a month is $575 a month too much to pay for rent?

pay as little as you can for rent and food, that way you have more money for gear and booze

Greenfuz wrote:pay as little as you can for rent and food, that way you have more money for gear and booze

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Especially the booze.

See if your company has openings in places with cool independent art/music scenes (like, sayyyyyy... Austin, maybe). Move there. Work at your job, but also work at increasing your paid art output. See if you can get it to the point where the art stuff supports itself.