Most of the creative types, dancers, artist, writers, and the like give up the work they love in order to pay the rent and put food on their table. Few have been able to find ways to use their talents to make money and support their creative expression. Self doubt is compounded by comments such as…"You had better keep your day job" or You can’t earn a living doing that," from family and friends. Don’t give up your dreams. It is possible to be successful and happily, creatively employed.
It takes work. You must embark on an adventure which includes a journey of personal growth. Along the way you will build a new life as you pursue your quest to become the person you were destined to become. This hero’s journey is not without rugged terrain and will require making sacrifices and tackling problems in order for you to provide your gift to the world, your creative talent.
It’s your journey and a good reference to take along with you is Earning Money Without a Job by Jay Conrad Levinson. It is chock full of excellent information to correctly guide those who would like to work for themselves. The section about freelancing and single person business ownership contains excellent tips.
Here Levinson points out, this work requires initiative, and the worker must be a planner and directed and committed to on going purposeful and productive activity. Is that the level of your commitment? If it is not, if you are serious you had better find a way to make it so.
Your personal vision will determine the kind of creative ability career you design. Will you be the sole creative force and provider or will you collaborate with others? Almost all of the successful creative types who transitioned from the corporate world to there own creative ability career followed and utilized several approaches until their new career blossomed.
Whether sometime simultaneously or sometimes sequentially, they made adjustments, changing from one route to another as necessary to keep their quest alive. All the time juggling multiple strategies and usage of their creative talents to generate income…freelancing, other self-employment ventures, writing grants, and creative expression. You too can combine strategies, it’s your journey.
Your creative ability career will provide you an arena to develop personal independence and enhance your self esteem. Arranging this work into your lifestyle to provide both for creative expression and financial survival will require that you look at many different options in the beginning.
To do this you may choose creative work along with other kinds of work and arrange them to fit your intended path. Artistic types are said to prefer arrangement of multiple kinds of work in their careers because it provides them with different ways to express the various degrees of their talent and increases their security by decreasing their dependence on any one job.
As you design your new career and move from a life dominated by corporate organization to a life more independent and filled with creative expression you will find it necessary to travel other routes and implement other plans as circumstances change.
Other strategies you may wish to implement on this career quest may includes finding a patron, teaching in your field, consulting in your field, or creating a cyber presence. The popularity of the personal computer, online video, and other Web 2.0 applications makes the Internet an excellent platform and venue to design and promote a creative ability career.
This path can not be pursued successfully without forethought and planning. Think about the long term from the outset and have a fall back plan. Keep your overhead as low as possible. The money will come slow in the beginning so do it because you enjoy it and have a good time with it not because you need to earn money.
But most importantly, follow your heart. Become the hero of your own life. Seeking the advice of a career counselor for vocational guidance may supply valuable insight which may smooth out your journey. Done correctly, when you reach the end of the path that you have blazed, you will have developed a new found sense of adventure and mega confidence in your future, as you enjoy your creative ability career.
Gharold, author of The Unclaimed Money Finders Guide has published numerous other opinions you may or may not find interesting at The World According to GHarold.
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