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Choosing between a steady job and a risky art grant changed everything for me.
My professor told me 'security is a cage if you never open the door.' I took the grant, sold my first painting in Seattle last week. Anyone else pick the scary option and have it work out?
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thomas_torres6d ago
Scary choices often pay off big time.
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sage3086d ago
Pay off big time" is a nice way to put it, @thomas_torres. My scary choice was trying to cook shrimp at home. The payoff was a kitchen that smelled like low tide for a week and a smoke alarm that finally got some use. Real big time stuff. I should have just stuck with the scary choice of ordering a pizza with pineapple on it.
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elizabethmason6d ago
My cousin's friend left a boring office job to start a food truck in Austin. He said he was tired of watching his life happen through a spreadsheet. Last I heard, he's doing okay, not rich, but he looks about ten years younger in photos. That professor of yours was onto something. A cage is still a cage even if you're the one who locked the door. Congrats on the Seattle sale, that's huge.
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