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[anthopleura]

I am so over school. I only have 1 year left, and it's a year of fun classes, but I just want to have my own time to do my own art. It's sad that getting an art degree is keeping me from doing art. There's this job I really really want. It's exactly what I'm doing now, but for triple the pay, full time, full benefits, but I need a degree to do

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[exzebachay]

The art degree certainly isn't supposed to represent the entirety of your artistic training; it's just a vaguely official document that backs up your portfolio. Another way to say "yes, I do know what I'm talking about."

I'm sure I've told you this before: when I was a kid, I played piano a bunch, played DnD, had artist parents, etc. Everyone always said, "Wow, you're so creative and artistic." After falling in love with mathematics and officially deciding on it as my major, my extended family all told me, "Well, you always were very scientific, you know." People see what they expect to see, or what is easy to see. And I agree, they tend to invalidate hard work a lot.

But, we create self-imposed limits so that we can gain and grow. Here, we limit our time (and sometimes sanity) both to increase our ability within our chosen subject, and to increase our ability to prove to others that our ability is legitimate.

Also, a Jewish lawyer/doctor you should marry. A nice Jewish boy who's both a doctor and a lawyer, his mother should be so proud of him - not like MY son, the doctor's cousin.