10 Reasons Your CURRENT Day Job is Creative (Really)

In a couple hours, I will don my costume for the day. I call it ‘business casual.’ I will sport a professional, corporate look. I shall spend the morning in a sales meeting and the afternoon strategizing, making phone calls and working with the marketing department. Ladies and gentlemen: I am a public relations manager.… Continue reading 10 Reasons Your CURRENT Day Job is Creative (Really)

Passion for Your Creativity, Day 2

Dear Me, So you read your day 1 letter from yourself. You started dissecting the lie that you have a crappy life, no passion for your creativity, and nothing to offer. Today is about when, with a healthy dash of why. When did you start talking to yourself in so much psycho-babble spin-speak? Why not just be honest and see where… Continue reading Passion for Your Creativity, Day 2

The Artist’s Double Life: The Day Job

Feeling bifurcated? Jekyll and sometimes Hyde? Creatives often live a life that mirrors our cell phone plans: we spend our ‘peak minutes’ at a day job while our ‘off peak minutes’ (nights and weekends) afford us little time to get our creativity fix. As a creative do you ever feel like this pic to the right?… Continue reading The Artist’s Double Life: The Day Job