Life Events

It seems like there are times in one’s life where changes keep cropping up, one after the other. Quitting the day job, along with most of the rest of the team, when the boss changed. Taking on a course of self directed study for a new career. Deciding to sell the house in Minnesota and move back to California, along with all the prep work involved in getting the house for sale. Personal medical stuff. Moving back in with the parents for a month or two, then moving from way in the East Bay back into San Francisco. The death of my father, which will effect me for some time to come. Fighting with the state to see what kind of medical coverage I’m qualified for. Being sure I’m ready to move again in January - the roommie situation is temporary.

Scheduling

Today I find myself needing to take a step back and reimpose some order on things.

• As soon as I’m back in the city, I need to get to the S.F. healthcare offices and determine what assistance, if any, I’m eligible for, and get myself back onto some form of insurance.
• I’ve been good about getting out and exercising, but I work better on a schedule. Formalize the time I get out and bike, or walk, or run, and the minimum time I’m going to do it.
• Schedule the time I want to spend learning, and the time I want to spend working on personal projects. My materials and lighting, for instance, could use some work. At the same time, I need to finish up the story boards I’m responsible for in a group animation I’m involved in, and work on my portfolio.
• Get back to cooking, at least a little, at the apartment. I need to stop eating out, or eating prepackaged food, every meal.
• Spend some time finding apartments in my price range so I have a place to go early next year.
• Finding work
  • With one or two more portfolio pieces on my Art Station, and with this website in a better state, particularly the gallery, I need to find a studio or workplace where I’d be a good match.
  • It also means cleaning up my entire social media presence. Generally removing old artwork that does not represent where I’m at, making sure I have sufficient content of high enough quality to catch somebody’s eye, updating my resume, etc.

Moving Forward

The largest part of this plan is the discipline to follow through with it. I have some long hours I need to dedicate to modeling and animating, but not so long at one stretch to have a recurrence of the medical issues I had last year.

My ultimate goal is to create long form animations of my own, but I have a ways to go before I get there, and I feel that experience at a studio would be mutually beneficial. While I’m contributing, I’m also seeing how they use what I contribute.