Creative Career Life-line

This podcast has been the missing link between what I learned during my time earning my BFA and creating work towards my career goals. I graduated from a public university in June of 2020 right as the lockdowns started. I’ve spent nearly two years wandering aimlessly with no direction on what I need to do to create work for the career I want, an imaginative realist painter for the fantasy genre.

I found this podcast last month and have been listening from the beginning of this feed to around 75 episodes in. These episodes have answered almost every question I have had about what I should do with this career field. In one month’s time, I’ve created more work in a month than I have done any other month since graduating college, I have more ideas for original works, and I finally have an actual business plan with clear goals and timelines.

This hasn’t been an easy transition for me, I’m 41 years old and am doing this as a midlife career switch. I went through college with a wife and two kids, and being the stay-at-home parent has not made work easy. I can say for sure though, that thanks to this podcast, I have found a way to make it work that I don’t know if I would have found without this podcast.