A Short Note On Art and Day Jobs: Your mileage, of course, may vary.
On a personal level, I really don't get the unspoken "don't talk about your day job" rule in arts communities, especially in public spaces online. My day job is awesome. Pretending not to have it wouldn't lend anything else I do more legitimacy. At the end of the day, I'd rather people know I don't have slow artistic output because I'm lazy or
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I hadn't even realized there was a, "Don't talk about your day job," In art communities. I talk about it all the time. Somewhat baffled that doing so would be considered... er... whatever it is that's considered bad about talking about one's day job?
Taking about someone else's day job in a negative or dismissive context, that I can fathom being a problem - but my own, it's how I stay fed.
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Replace law with internationally collaborative astronomy research, and yes, this. I think one of the stereotypes about "day jobs" is that they are low-skilled and emotionally meaningless and roughly interchangeable. And I get why for some artists that can be a plus--something that is steady enough to pay the bills, but that they don't have to take home with them or get emotionally invested in so they have that mental energy for their creative work. That said, I get unhappy quickly if I feel my paid work is meaningless or mindless, and frankly, public interest law is a creative endeavour of its own (as is what you do)--it's all about building a narrative. I mean, yeah, the hours I spent doing legal research today wasn't fascinating, but putting together my theory of the case will be.
Even if my job wasn't so ( ... )
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