Livin' the lifestyle.

Someone just asked me why I don’t consider being an artist a career option, and I didn’t really have a plausible answer for them.  I guess I just never really give it much thought because I don’t think I’m good enough, and because I’ve just wanted to be a doctor for so long that it seems like...impossible for me to choose another path.  However, I actually started weighing the pros and cons of being an artist....the lifestyle is an interesting concept, to say the least.

Negatives:

• No sleep

• Bad eating habits (because there’s no time to cook)

• Accidentally eating art supplies

• Inhaling art supplies

• Tons of energy drinks

• Poor mental health

• Correlations to depression

• Underpaid

• Hard to find work

• Every friend you ever have ever asks you for a picture

• They don’t stop asking for it

• Ever

• Usually inactive

• Usually have appearance that adults don’t find appropriate

• Most do drugs

• No sleep

Positives:

• See an attractive person: “I must draw you”

• You aren’t expected to be anywhere near fit

• You make money doing something you love

• You don’t have to spend any money on presents

• You’re not boring

• Other not boring people will be your friends through college

• You make life not boring

• People are jelly

• Your clothes are more awesome

• Nudity is okay (to draw)