22 Jun 02:52
--@Amit: 'This' meaning art or life?
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22 Jun 02:51
--@Hob: There's this sleep tip I got from either Amit or some other dagger, or both, about sleep cycles. Something about waking up on your last sleep cycle or something. Basically, what I did was I scaled back sleeping hours until I find a good waking time!
22 Jun 02:50
--I just hope you guys will realise that the skills grind, IS NOT what this is all about...it really isn't
22 Jun 02:47
--Don't do that. Live your life 24 hours of the day. Figure out how much of that needs to be drawing
22 Jun 02:46
--@Amit: Bah. Balance. It was better when you were ironically going to extremes haha!
22 Jun 02:44
--I am actually writing the secret diary of a freelancer (like the secret diary of adrian mole) haha.
22 Jun 02:43
--If you are more free-spirited and adventurous, freelance life will be better, but you have to be crazy fucking disciplined to make it work
22 Jun 02:42
--John, in a more balanced answer to your question, going through a constant salary in a studio is much more manageable and easy. So aim for that if you want comfort
22 Jun 02:41
--and I think in some ways that's more useful, if you can hear past the frustration :)
22 Jun 02:40
--It's not annoying...but it is a bit like deja vu or a glitch in the matrix haha. Shouldn't stop you guys from asking, but also realise that if you ask the same shit to people, they probably have heard the same thing 1 million times before :)
22 Jun 02:35
--you can use the same template for most things, changing the one sentence that feels customisable to them, as if you really considered them in the past. I highly recommend you make this sincere and do your research...but you can fake it if you want
22 Jun 02:34
--be professional. That means being concise and to the point. Tell them what you are about in one or two short sentences. tell them you are available now. Tell them one sentence on why you want to work for them. Include a link. That's all you need
22 Jun 02:33
--altough doesent matter i will get rejections anyway so ill stick to the short ones
22 Jun 02:30
--btw Amit when mailing companies can it be litterally " hey i want to work for you" insert jpgs and links and thats it. Dont like writing my life stories and walls of text
22 Jun 02:29
--but that's the thing if I was really upset, I would have believed all the bullshit I just spewed out