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hiss  ·  4123 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do for a living? What would you like to do?

Online marketing at a large organization, specializing in local search. Started with the same company as a contractor doing front-end design for the mothership .com site(s), was hired full time and moved into my current position early last year. It's fun, creative work at its best and provides great pay, benefits, and plenty of opportunities to meet intelligent people. At its worst there are big company politics, the occasional lack of autonomy, and the slow grind of working with the technology organization.

What I'd like to do for a living: write words and music. I've done some scores for student and low-budget films, primarily for friends, and I'd like to do more with that. In sum, I'd like to be paid for my point of view. Where some people in the arts are a little freaked out by STEM dominance, I consider it a great opportunity. As we fast forward into the future what makes us human is going to matter more than ever before (or at least since, I don't know, the Inquisition). It's taken shape in a lot of the more precious aspects of contemporary culture, but only as it relates to production - craftspeople making jeans, eyeglasses, furniture, etc. - but my hope is (at the risk of seeming like a parody of Werner Herzog) that this desire for the "real" continues to progress to deeper and more fundamental aspects of our human nature.