*I'm no longer using X but I am now on Bluesky under my regular name*
Another serious post. I'm not entirely in the right mindset for hard unfiltered responses at the moment, so please keep that in mind. None of these things are new to my fellow freelance artists, but it needs to be said.
New month, which also mean I asked a supervisor again about the job that has been in a holding pattern since November if there was any update on when work would return, just like I did for January and February. The story never changed, although he did mention the client being "non-committal" to us after leaving us hanging all this time, and we are still waiting for work from them. After a year of consistent pay that has kept me afloat here since last year, it's hard to get into the mindset of moving on, but I have enough receipts to know that I should practice doing that at this moment and not continue waiting. I have more luck getting human responses on sites like Upwork than on LinkedIn. I ideally should apply to a wage job in advertising, but I realize I now have zero skills for that since that industry has rudely changed faster than any human can feasibly adapt to.
I said last year I will be unvealing commission rules soon but held off on that because now I'm wondering if it's even worth doing, or even the RIGHT thing to do. I'm getting to the point where I am now more familiar with how many commissions I have time for without stressing myself out, and it's lower than I want. But that means maybe I'm being too hard on myself, but it's also a huge alarm, as that means my line of work can't sustain itself and I need to reset my life eventually. So yeeeeeeah.
My point isn't entirely new: keep in touch with each other, help each other with any leads we find, and keep surviving. Preferrably a lead for a job that is on-going and consistent, until it .... inevitably is NOT ... anymore ... like this last one became. I may need to reset my life.
