Thanks elm, well put and exactly the reason why I wanna do this. Currently waiting for word on the formal interview stage. Really excited by this.

HeavyVoodoo wrote:

Coopers_Green wrote:

HeavyVoodoo wrote:

Jem wrote:

I make movie posters. Seriously, that's actually a job that exists.

You should check Jem's stuff out. It's awesome. He is a serious fucking 'what? he did that poster?' professional. One day I hope to be that awesome but it would take me until I'm dead and buried.

Link please!

It's in his sig. http://jeremysaunders.com/ and I'm claiming him for Britain.

The fuck you are.

Tempy wrote:

I do feel like the thickest and least achieved of the Bear and Badger lot. Screw you talented bastards.

Ditto.

Fuck the lot of you.

EDIT: I didn't mean that.

Escape wrote:

LarryDavid wrote:

When I worked in a supermarket as a teen we had an old guy whose catheter bag burst as he was riding around the store on his mobility scooter, leaving a trail of yellowy piss behind him like a geriatric, motorised slug. I saw him cruising down the toilet roll aisle spraying piss everywhere and immediately (and wisely) told my manager I was taking my break, lest I end up following him around the shop with a mop and bucket.

What kind of biscuits did he buy?

I'm guessing fig rolls. Or some cheeky viscount.

Skerret wrote:

HeavyVoodoo wrote:

Coopers_Green wrote:

HeavyVoodoo wrote:

Jem wrote:

I make movie posters. Seriously, that's actually a job that exists.

You should check Jem's stuff out. It's awesome. He is a serious fucking 'what? he did that poster?' professional. One day I hope to be that awesome but it would take me until I'm dead and buried.

Link please!

It's in his sig. http://jeremysaunders.com/ and I'm claiming him for Britain.

The fuck you are.

BY RIGHT OF BIRTH, YOU OFFSPRING OF FELONIOUS QUIM! The antipodes will never have him, even if he has an odd, neither hither or tither, accent!

wherever jem's claimed by, his page blew me away, amazing stuff

Webbins wrote:

I am currently at a design company in Bradford where I have been a studio designer covering graphics, editorial and illustration, a traditional games designer and then manager, until recently that is as I have now moved onto the artwork team in search of a fresh challenge.

Coincidentally, i'm working on exhibition artwork for the Bradford Industrial Museum at the moment (I work in Sheffield though).

You're a rent boy?

Kow wrote:

You're a rent boy?

That's a jazzy way of putting it, you must be very familiar with all the rent boy terminology...

MattyJ wrote:

Tempy wrote:

MattyJ wrote:

I am a Service Integration Specialist....guess what that means

You watch Castle all day.

Pffft, not allll day. Sometimes I watch Big Bang Theory or Modern Family

But not how I met your mother.

I'm considering signing on.

Work is slowly gathering pace but there's no actual money yet. Job seekers isn't means tested so my redundancy doesn't affect it. Apparently I can still be self employed and "actively seeking work" as long as the hours I'm putting in on the self employed don't exceed a certain amount. I'd also get my NI credits.

Might get complicated when I do earn something, cross that bridge when it comes I guess.

I dunno, I'm morally opposed to taking money from the state I don't actually need to survive. At the same time it's £60 per week in exchange for some form filling and shame once a fortnight and by fuck I've paid enough in over the last 11 years. I'm not worried about it becoming a habit, I've always worked and will always, quite prepared to do some part-time stuff or even go full time again if my own ideas don't take off.

Mod - take the money.

Yup, take the money. It's not like you're sponging off the state, you're actually unemployed.

I worked in an Art shop and got trained up as a picture framer after uni and also taught life drawing for a while. For the last 7 years I've been a full-time freelance illustrator doing stuff for magazines, books and packaging. I have recently decided to become a painter because I've done everything with illustration that I ever intended to and have become bored. I've set up an awesome home studio and am painting whenever I'm not doing my regular illustration work. It's awesome. No one tells me what to do. My time is my own and have peace and quiet every day.

I recently sold a painting of a coach driver to the M.D. of National Express via Twitter. This made me feel like a real painter, woo! Onwards and upwards. The coming years will be about honing my skills by painting and drawing everything from life, both indoors and out. I have a 10 x 8" painting box, which screws on top of my camera tripod that I can set up in the street/park/woods and happily paint away, all day. Painting from life is very, very, VERY hard. But it's the only way to become truly great. Painting from photos is a dead end, you're lying to yourself and will never become a master this way.

It's a great feeling to spend all day doing something that you know you'd still be doing, even if you won the lottery tmrw. That's a good gauge of whether you're doing the right thing, I reckon. Freedom trumps everything for me, I'd rather be broke and free and my own master than have a big house and car and take shit from someone all day that I didn't respect. I do want a big house and car, I just want freedom and integrity first. The car may come later as a nice by-product of sticking to my guns and putting the hours in. I hope it does. It's nice to have nice things.

Do what you love, for life is short. This isn't a dress-rehersal. Money only matters if you can't feed, clothe and shelter yourself and loved ones to a reasonable standard. Reasonable doesn't include a 5 bedroom house in the Cotswolds and a Ferrari, fyi. You don't need half the shite you buy.

Funkstain wrote:

Sounds great Turtle. What should those, who lack a clue about their true vocation, do?

drugs?