The answer is yes but I just need your support, my fellow antiwork friends.
From 2011-2020 I was in a homegrown business with my mother, doing Face Painting, Animal Balloons, Childrens activities, and even did costumes for holidays!
It was the only job where you rarely ever see a frown. The atmosphere was always bright, cheery, and you got to explore around the state as you were hired for new events, weddings, fairs, birthdays, you name it! I had artistic skills I was building in all sorts of media, including digital, which I sell now due to covid abruptly killing our business. (It was slowly dying anyways)
Ever since the business died, and I moved to a new state, I got my first real jobs…the 9-5 grind. And oh my god I hate it. It hurts my body, I have no skills to apply for better paying jobs so I struggle with money immensely, I picked up a temporary drinking issue (still working on it) and I have just never been so miserable. Being surrounded with people who are equally high, drunk and miserable, in unfulfilling jobs, puts me in a pretty bad depression.
But now I am a few years in and I have already had enough. I know how to make a business and I have even better skills than before. I sell nsfw art on the side, but rarely have time to complete them with a full time job, that makes me exhausted when I get home.
Soooooo
I am done. I am trying to convince myself to go to this new job offer that pays pretty damn well, acquire and save money for rent and supplies for my art business, cut it to part time (and/or)quit entirely, and start bringing joy back into peoples lives by making digital caricature artwork in parks and hopefully vending at events.
I read antiwork near daily and I just can’t keep wasting my life doing these jobs that make rich people richer and being told I am only worth entry level pay because no hourly paying company wants my Art. They want my slave wage labor.
So, thank you antiwork for helping me gain the courage to try and go back to doing what I love. Cross your fingers though. It’ll be pricey to start up and it might flop but I gotta try.