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The whole discussion regarding artists and retraining, particularly in other part-time fields, is odd to me because it assumes that artists are primarily living off art as their sole income, which centres it as an argument about upper class creatives [...]
- again ignoring that working-class people are artists, and the majority of working-class artists hold down another job anyway. It's all discussed as if its some sort of oddity or national service for artists to earn elsewhere. [...]
I'm sorry but the working-class don't get to do that, for us it's full-time artists, full-time other job. If I gave my creative career part-time effort I'd get nowhere. The working class have to work harder anyway, we don't have money and connections doing the heavy lifting.
Plus, if I only had a part-time job to supplement my creative career my family would starve.
We've already retrained as labourers, teachers, tradespeople, baristas, retail workers, etc.
We're already juggling.
We've already retrained as labourers, teachers, tradespeople, baristas, retail workers, etc.
We're already juggling.
