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In the arts there's lots of niches that you can appropriate for yourself to make a living. It's a fickle business but one where there is a lot of money if you have a good idea and know the right people.
I have started a couple of businesses with friends (which isn't always a good idea) but in the first case I decided to leave (because it involved teaching, and because I didn't agree with my friend on how the business should develop), and in the second the project never came to full fruition (though I still have it in my head and think it's a good idea). Both were connected to the arts.
For the past years I have done some freelance work, where you are not exactly your own boss but your time is your own, which is a good medium to me. Also you only take on the work you know you will do well.
The arts involve some risk but they also give you a freedom you can't have in many other areas, which I love.
I would love to be my own boss...or to at least feel I have the power to change things for the better.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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