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EmergingArtist
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 Posted - 08/16/2007 : 15:44:42
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Hi fellow MT member/guest,
Do you have a calling in life? (In other words, what's your current vocation or particular thing you're shooting for in terms of occupation or direction in your life...)
I plan to journal about it privately, and then maybe post a few ideas in some blogs of mine online. But I would love to hear from anyone here who is closer at grasping a life interest. (Vocation or calling or primary life's work).
Anyone?
-EA
unemployed
thirty-one-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 08/19/2007 : 15:14:46
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| I've been mulling over what I want to concentrate on overall in my life. |
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| EmergingArtist
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Posted - 08/20/2007 : 16:28:19
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Hello,
For this past year and a half or so, I'd kind of abandoned the idea of art for awhile, even though I'm still paying off thousands of dollars in student loans from art college.
Today I went crazy with my husband's digi camera and then I learned (finally) to upload the pics today, so in looking at all these old sketchbook pages (drawings) I'd done over the years now on the digi camera...I'm feeling the itch to make some kind of art maybe.
Probably I might say at this time that I hope art might be my vocation in life, but data entry will probably be my meat and potatoes, I'm really not sure. I sure do enjoy typing though. Typing is power! (until voice recognition is more widely available...but even then, I would prefer to type--I would feel foolish talking out loud to my computer).
-EA
unemployed
thirty-one-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 09:26:03
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Hello,
This morning I applied via email for a job. It is Tuesdays and Wednesdays which would work out with my talk therapy schedule. It's in my neighborhood, a 2nd hand bookstore. I would be organizing workshops which is something I've done before. The ad was put out Aug. 8.
-EA
unemployed
thirty-one-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| Jonathan90125
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
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Posted - 08/24/2007 : 13:29:42
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| I feel my two main 'callings' are the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, whom I used to do a wee bit voluntary work for and Oxfam. |
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
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Posted - 08/25/2007 : 08:30:04
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Hi Jonathan,
Why do you feel these are your callings?
-EA
unemployed
thirty-one-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 09/19/2007 : 13:51:29
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Hello Readers,
What do you think is your vocation in life?
I think my vocation is visual communication. I don't know the particulars in detail for how I'm going to go about realizing that intention. I've been mulling it over more in the front of my mind for the last several weeks. Doing more drawings.
-EA
unemployed
thirty-one-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 10/04/2007 : 07:27:35
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Hello,
I went ahead and emailed the Student Affairs office where I went to school. You have to get an alumni password to access the school's jobsite. So I did. I've only quickly browsed the site. I plan to look it over more thoroughly by mid next week or so...
-EA
unemployed
thirty-two-year-old Korean-American
married woman
diagnosed bipolar 1993
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 10/04/2007 : 14:48:26
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| ...so I've just now read over the lengthy disclaimer for the jobsite. At least that's out of the way. |
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
9136 Posts
Gratitude: 822
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Posted - 10/04/2007 : 14:49:44
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| I'm still petrified to open up any job listings, I don't know why, and I'm tired of analyzing minutiae, so I'm planning to look at 2 or 3 listings tomorrow. At least I read a few paragraphs on the site! |
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| pandora106
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Posted - 08/27/2008 : 12:20:29
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I feel I have so many qualities and passions but I'm having trouble achieving my goals. I've become a fairly good, beginner artist (mostly acrylic on canvas) and have started on the tract to start a non-profit organization. I also have a 2yr grant to go back to school and take massage therapy which will be a good enviroment for my bipolar disorder.
The problem is that I don't always have $ for paints and without me being able to paint, makes me go crazy. Also I have had to put school on a hold, or even give that up b/c of an accident I had. My elbow was severely fractured and may never heal. The non-profit organization that I'm interested in starting is slowly coming along. I've done all the leg work and am just waiting to find the right med *****tail.
It seems my life is being put on hold for me to become stabilized and I think I may never be b/c just as I'm feeling a bit better, after time I find out I'm not.
Well, I should be getting some more paints soon so that'll make me sane. :) I'm working towards a gallery showing next year. |
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| EmergingArtist
Incredible Member (2000+ posts)
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Posted - 12/28/2008 : 20:21:25
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I have purchased a better camera. I don't know if photography is part of my vocation. I have re-started doing paintings. I have just paid off my student loan from college.
I went to college and have a BFA in painting and drawing.
I had originally wanted to make paintings and exhibit in galleries.
I abandoned that ambition after a few years of sporadic exhibiting after graduating.
I want to make paintings and then upload to flickr and send as portfolio around to galleries. I don't have a time-frame.
EA  Age: 33
Sex: female
working part-time, married
Diagnosed 1993, Bipolar I  |
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| warblaster
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