From Full-Time Work to Hybrid to Full-Time Art
Projekt Rattloch Number 31 has a new name...
Being honest with myself, I haven’t got the minerals to quit my job and pursue art full time. That feels like too much of a risk. It would most probably affect my painting in a negative way. I don’t truly know unless I live the scenario, but I have responsibilities, you know, and the pressure would affect me negatively, I think, I’m pretty sure it would.
So this is my new plan.
Projekt Rattloch has a stepping stone called Projekt Hybrides Arbeiten. No, that sounds a bit wordy, doesn’t it. Let’s try Projekt Hybrid. Sounds cool. (Projekt Ficken Vollzeit-Büroarbeit came a close second.)
This is the plan for the stepping stone.
Over the past year-ish I’ve been going balls-deep into AI tools, blah blah. I know many people are totally against AI and I understand why, but these skills are in demand and it’s opened doors to multiple job interviews, which I’m very grateful for. I’ve enjoyed every minute of my learning journey too.
I’ve also learned, well not learned but remembered, that “painting is the thing”. I’d still very much love to have a painting-centric life by design: spending most of my time painting, ultimately replacing the working hours with painting hours instead.
So yes, the stepping stone is the move to a hybrid role. I’m exhausted from being in the office 39 hours per week, plus 7.5 hours in my car. Working in a more interesting role will keep me engaged in the daytime, then I’ll have more energy for painting in my spare time, most importantly, in the gaps between hybrid working. I could work from the studio and then paint every lunchtime, for example. That alone would be life changing for me.
That’s it for this post. More to come on progress with the hybrid working job search.
For now,
Tutti bye