[lbo-talk] Google discrimination and radical politics

[John Thornton]

Don't let the fact that you possess poor sales skills keep you from 
pursuing art as a career.
I absolutely suck at sales. I have a rather grating personality and an 
impossible time feigning interest when people start telling dull stories 
about themselves.
Nothing puts people off like a lack of interest in them.
I have actually been offered jobs simply because I mentioned in 
conversation I was anti-copyright, at least as far as visual arts are 
concerned.
There is plenty of insipid art created by artists whose main talents lie 
in sales but you probably wouldn't want to one of them anyway.
Hustling clients isn't required for art work. I almost never actively 
seek work. More work than I can do in a lifetime seems to have a way of 
making it to my front door. I am not too discriminating in the jobs I 
take however. I am not a portrait painter, photographer or lamp maker. I 
am just as happy casting a replacement intake for a 1930 BSA Sloper as I 
am doing a pen and ink drawing of someones home.
My feeling has always been that if I can do this it can't be that difficult.

Why not seriously consider becoming an art instructor? There is probably 
a community college near you that would let you teach an art class to 
see if this was potentially a career you could live with.

John Thornton

Chuck wrote:
> Right. But I'm horrible at sales and hustling new clients. This is why I 
> went to library school and didn't pursue an art career.
>
> My situation is so weirdly unique that it's hard for me to get advice 
> about what I should pursue. I've ruled out returning to college. I've 
> considered going to law school, becoming an art teacher, or becoming an 
> academic in some field. But that would require years of work and funds 
> that I don't have. The prospect of finding work after returning to 
> school is pretty sketchy. It seems to me that it would make more sense 
> to learn more programming and new technology and pursue a job that pays 
> well. But then I'm back to the problem with full time jobs and employers 
> who Google discriminate.
>
> It's sooo fucked up. Can we have the revolution now?
>
> Chuck