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Sustainability, Real-life Careers, plus a view on the ‘Portfolio Career.’ Internet Truffles Week 10

June 17, 2015 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Sustainability, Real-life Careers, Plus

I hope you’ve found value in the last two posts on how to use Canva to help market your work (see Part One and Part Two). The third instalment is coming soon. But first we bring you another of my Internet Truffles: Snuffling out the best of the internet for you.

1. How to sustain your creative production

Being creative isn’t easy over a long trajectory. Anyone can have a creative weekend, but a year, a decade or longer of sustained creative work is difficult. This is the key to building more sustainability into your practice: creating circumstances that allow you to work over a long trajectory. Here’s a simple infographic with some ideas of how to not undermine your creativity. I particularly like: “Do say yes, and…” and “Don’t be a sheep.”

 

2. Wanna know how other musicians make it all work?

If you’ve been following me for awhile, you probably know that I love real life career stories. Here’s a fantastic repository of case study interviews with real working American musicians. They are interviews as part of studies at The University of Michigan School of Music and represent a broad swathe of musical styles and jobs within the music industry. A fantastic opportunity to snoop into other musicians’ lives and how they try to build sustainability into their careers.

 

3. Where do you take your inspiration from?

Inspiration can come from anywhere. For some it’s in their imagination, in others it’s in the books they read, and for some others it’s in their surroundings. Here’s a look at how Frida Kahlo was inspired by her garden. 

 

4. How to cope when there’s too much work

This is orientated to freelance journalists, but is a good list of 5 things to do when you’re feeling overwhelmed with work. You know the saying ‘when it rains, it pours?’ This too applies to creative careers so you can have periods of time with too much work on the go. Here’s a few coping mechanisms.

 

5. Are you trying to juggle multiple things? Here’s one take on the ‘portfolio career’

I am a person with several interests. And I struggle constantly with whether it’s possible to pursue multiple things. I want to believe it is. I want to believe that fundamentally I need to honour all the bits of myself. But the truth is it frequently leaves me exhausted and unfulfilled. Nothing gets the attention that it deserves. Here’s Naomi’s colourful take on this situation.

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