Thinking of changing careers!

[poopipe]

Originally Posted by Sathe

If you want to ad me to facebook and stay in touch
(Only those I know on here, nothing rages me more than some Indian guy I've never seen or heard from adding me for no ****en reason)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=712492843

shouldve pretended to be indian


so yeah - how's the interpretive dance coming on ?

[Kage]

Wow, sad to see you leaving Sathe, but you taught me a lot

I'm also lost in what I want to do. I'm certainly not making any money doing CGI though as my job is in a warehouse and has been for 5 years... Now that is what I call being lost

Good luck with everything. Hope to hear from you soon

My music is very experimental ambient, classical, etc, etc. Can't really explain it, but I don't feel like I'm ever going to do anything with it though I'd like to be able to produce stuff a lot faster. Almost everything is WIP on that page. All but one, and that could do with some work:

http://www.soundcloud.com/musical_kage

Mood Synth follows onto Content Synth, and then Noise.

[needse]

think iam with you sathe. this is getting silly ive been applying for job after job and not getting nothing and if i do they what to give me peanuts to work. back to painting and decorating soon i think

[poopipe]

Take the peanuts is my advice ....

I was out of work a while back, got an offer of a short contract on **** money and now im lead tech artist,permanent and on a decent wage at the same place.. you never know ...

[BiG ToE-3DT]

does that mean your old position is open? I could use a job, as long as it has nothing to do with ******* a ****** while *.

[poopipe]

sadly you'd have to do that all day

[parleee]

Originally Posted by needse

think iam with you sathe. this is getting silly ive been applying for job after job and not getting nothing and if i do they what to give me peanuts to work. back to painting and decorating soon i think

At least you got paid something. The studio I did all those projects for hasn't paid me a penny, and will not respond to any messages. Going to have to get a lawyer if that keeps up, but given all the humdrum work I gave up to manage their one-day deadlines I'm bleedin poor.

[needse]

sorry to hear that mate. wan***s name and shame the fuc***s

[needse]

parlee what are you like at modeling cartoon style horse's i may have a job for you ?

[parleee]

Depends on style, but could pull it off as long as it's not dependent on sculpting.

Sounds like you need the work too though?

Thanks.

[needse]

let me talk to the bill payer and i will pm you some images tomorrow
its very similar to the one from the film tangled and no z brush

ive got alot on my plate as it is im doing this project for free as its one of my dads projects.

but there's a few $ floating about for bits i cant do myself.

[parleee]

Sounds good, I'll wait for the pm then.

Take care.

[Sathe]

Everything is going better than expected.

I've gone from modeling IronMan to BECOMING an Ironman.

Training for hours every day for hours, eating an immaculate diet and focused as hard as I was when starting CG.
**** it feels GOOD to be in control again and motivated enough to change myself.
I feel I peaked mentally, as in got to the point where I was forgetting things to learn new things, but wrecked myself physically now I'm fixing that.

Booyah, and thanks for the helpful words in the thread.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

so, um, will you be checking in every now and then, or is this a one nigt stand. Hit it a quit it?

[Kage]

I think most of you are very lucky to be where you are.
I for one haven't found a single job in the CG sector yet...
I'm wondering myself whether it is where I want to be, but I have no real idea where I want to be. I would accept an offer to move somewhere though for sure. Maybe London? I don't know. I just know I need change, and quite fast. I'm certainly not going to find many jobs here in Manc, UK
At the moment, I'm 24, stuck in a sales job, where I have been for the past 5 years dealing with customers.
No university degree as I have no idea what I want to do/be, after I left uni ages back now, from animation as I realized it wasn't for me when I kept getting criticized on my realism in projects.
I decided animation basically wasn't for me. Least not in the character aspect of things.
I'm just left where I am, with what I feel, my creativity, and even intellect slipping from me.

So well done to all you lot, honestly for doing what you have achieved. I think you should all stick to it, if you enjoy it, personally.
I just wish the 3D sector paid more than £30,000 max from what I've seen in job postings salary wise, but even that is more than what I'm on by... 20 grand? lol