What's New In My Life
What...it's only been 6 months now?
Since Memorial Day our lives have been a chaotic haze. We loved our old place, but it ended up being a bit too expensive to allow us to move forward and, I dunno, save money now and again. We moved up the road to a smaller pad that's a bit more affordable, but neglected to realize the scope of how hard it would be to find a studio.
So for the past few months our living room has become a giant pile o' crap and any working space is nonexistent. It's been depressing to not be able to do any fursuit work, though thankfully we have some very patient commissioners.
We've been looking for almost 2 months for a space, combining our search efforts with Devin & Allison who were also looking for a place to live. It was a long arduous learning experience going through the whole rental process all over again, but after long last we found a place; a little duplex that we're going to trick out when we move our stuff in next week. I'm dying to get back to work.
The big theme over the past 6 months has been looking towards the future. I've re-enrolled in school this fall, taking 2 classes a semester while I work on credits towards my CPA (Accountant) exam. It's funny that I have had an on again, off again relationship with the CPA exam for the last 5 years. I want to do it, then I don't want to. Then I try something else that doesn't work out, fail, then suddenly get a drive to get my CPA. I think what stops me from seeing it through it that it scares me. The thought of becoming an accountant and having to shut off part of myself. It's the intense personal connections you make through the profession that both excites and frightens me. I love meeting people, I love shooting the shit, but I always have a seed of fear of 'what if they really find out that I'm gay, furry etc.?' that makes me shy away from making connections.
I have, however, been doing more modest bookkeeping work for almost 2 years now, and I really really enjoy it. Ironically, it's the personal relationships I've developed that have been the most rewarding, being amazingly involved with just about every facet of my client's lives. There's a hell of a lot I still need to learn, but it's something that I genuinely care to learn about. I dunno...there's a real sense of power about knowing your shit, and a real sense of joy (ego?) of being able to share that knowledge.
I don't ever want to stop making fursuits, but I do think as time goes on my main focus is going to shift towards becoming an accountant. It doesn't mean I'm shackling myself a cubicle any time soon, but in the end it's something I enjoy that can make me a very comfortable living, and with a little planning can still leave me enough time to build costumes.
So it means I have a lot of work ahead of me, and a lot to learn. In the short run, my main goal is getting the studio back in order and finish some long overdue commissions :)
Since Memorial Day our lives have been a chaotic haze. We loved our old place, but it ended up being a bit too expensive to allow us to move forward and, I dunno, save money now and again. We moved up the road to a smaller pad that's a bit more affordable, but neglected to realize the scope of how hard it would be to find a studio.
So for the past few months our living room has become a giant pile o' crap and any working space is nonexistent. It's been depressing to not be able to do any fursuit work, though thankfully we have some very patient commissioners.
We've been looking for almost 2 months for a space, combining our search efforts with Devin & Allison who were also looking for a place to live. It was a long arduous learning experience going through the whole rental process all over again, but after long last we found a place; a little duplex that we're going to trick out when we move our stuff in next week. I'm dying to get back to work.
The big theme over the past 6 months has been looking towards the future. I've re-enrolled in school this fall, taking 2 classes a semester while I work on credits towards my CPA (Accountant) exam. It's funny that I have had an on again, off again relationship with the CPA exam for the last 5 years. I want to do it, then I don't want to. Then I try something else that doesn't work out, fail, then suddenly get a drive to get my CPA. I think what stops me from seeing it through it that it scares me. The thought of becoming an accountant and having to shut off part of myself. It's the intense personal connections you make through the profession that both excites and frightens me. I love meeting people, I love shooting the shit, but I always have a seed of fear of 'what if they really find out that I'm gay, furry etc.?' that makes me shy away from making connections.
I have, however, been doing more modest bookkeeping work for almost 2 years now, and I really really enjoy it. Ironically, it's the personal relationships I've developed that have been the most rewarding, being amazingly involved with just about every facet of my client's lives. There's a hell of a lot I still need to learn, but it's something that I genuinely care to learn about. I dunno...there's a real sense of power about knowing your shit, and a real sense of joy (ego?) of being able to share that knowledge.
I don't ever want to stop making fursuits, but I do think as time goes on my main focus is going to shift towards becoming an accountant. It doesn't mean I'm shackling myself a cubicle any time soon, but in the end it's something I enjoy that can make me a very comfortable living, and with a little planning can still leave me enough time to build costumes.
So it means I have a lot of work ahead of me, and a lot to learn. In the short run, my main goal is getting the studio back in order and finish some long overdue commissions :)