I'm sorry to hear you got so little support from your parents. They
have know idea how much damage they can do. Hopefully they'll figure it
out before it's too late. Parents.... can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em.
Well, you're certainly not an embarrassment to us.
Maybe a special girl will come along and accept you exactly as you are.
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Chris Crawford wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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