That's great! Actually fine art grads aren't worthless everywhere, but we
sure are in Indiana. What I should have done is moved to Santa Fe, Austin,
LA, NY, Chicago, or some other artsy place the split second I graduated from
college back in 1999. I stayed here because of my son, who was 2 yrs old
when I graduated. I thought I'd find a job but the months stretched into
years and in early 2006 I realized that I had been unemployed for almost 7
years and had applied for more than 700 jobs! Jesus! I had met a girl online
who lived in Santa Fe who wanted me to come out there and be with her
(that's gotta be a weird concept to the older guys here...but to my
generation it isn't).
I was desperate then because I had nowhere to live, and my family didn't
want anything to do with me because I was an embarassment to them. My family
changed a lot, my parents, they were good people when I was young but as
they got older they became very materialistic and more interested in
appearances and 'things' rather than people and family. I was a failure
despite being in numerous art exhibits, being published several times (check
out the november, 2003 issue of Popular Photography), because I had no
money. So, I went to Santa Fe.
I came back to Indiana because the girl in Santa Fe had extremely low
self-esteem and thought I was too nice to her because she's a big girl and
thus deserves to be beaten on and told she's ugly (she wasn't ugly, I
thought she was pretty & had a hot body. I guess I'm strange). I'd have
stayed in Santa Fe but the cost of living was too high and I missed my son,
who I didn't get to see enough because of the distance and the cost of
travel.
Like I said earlier, if I had moved away from Indiana immediately after
college, I'd have made good money and gotten a job. My parents say I was a
fool to stay for my kid and end up poor. I don't know, my son seemed to
disagree. He was upset about me being in New Mexico and overjoyed when I
came back. My plan now is to stay here till he goes off to college (he is 11
yrs old now) them move somewhere where I can make good money. I started to
make good money in Santa Fe and may end up going back.
--
Chris Crawford
Photography & Graphic Design
Fort Wayne, Indiana
http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
http://www.plumpatrin.com Something the world NEEDS.
On 6/29/08 4:33 PM, "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There was an op-ed piece in the Economist or one of the on-line high end
> daily papers about a year ago saying that BFA and MFA grads were being
> looked at with growing seriousness by some big names in the US investment
> banking business as superior recruitment talent over the dime a gross MBA
> output that had typically provided new blood into the industry.
>
> jh
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Crawford" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:34 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: wife (was number of cameras)
>
>
>> My Bachelors is in fine arts, which kind of limits what graduate programs
>> I
>> can get admitted to. I am going to get my MFA (masters of fine arts). At
>> least with that I can find a teaching job.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Crawford
>> Photography & Graphic Design
>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>>
>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio
>>
>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work!
>>
>> http://www.plumpatrin.com Something the world NEEDS.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/27/08 10:37 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Do you mind if I ask in what discipline?
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Chris Crawford wrote:
>>>> I can't afford one now, but I am going back to school to begin work on
>>>> my
>>>> masters degree in August, and my student aid is enough for me to live.
>>>> As a
>>>> grad student with such low income, I will receive $20,000 in student aid
>>>> per
>>>> year! I won't be poor anymore, and I can use the little money I earn
>>>> from my
>>>> graphics and photo work to buy some things we want, like the camera.
>>>> We've
>>>> been so poor for so long we haven't been able to do anything for
>>>> ourselves,
>>>> just struggled to survive. Its probably frivolous to buy anything like
>>>> that
>>>> but even po' white trash like us deserve to live a little, right?. LoL
>>>>
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