inkdick: february 16 2009 i got a job
I’ve been waiting seven and a half months to draw that last panel. Yay!
A HUGE thanks to Melanie for helping me get the job. She rocks!
So it will be nice to get some money coming in again. I mean, it’s not a lot, it is a retail job after all, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the zero bucks I’ve been pulling in since June. And with this economy the way it is I’m lucky just to have a job, any job. So for the time being I’ll be selling peanuts to old lady tourists on River Street. I’m sure that will make for some good comics.
I admit, it’s a little bit disheartening to be working a part-time job selling peanuts after spending over four years in art school, but that is how the world works. Or rather how the comic industry works. I think that out of all my friends who graduated last year, only a small handful of them have creative jobs and only one or two of them in actual comics. The rest of us are still making comics, we just have to have the day-job to pay the bills. Oh, how I look forward to the day that comics become my full-time day-job. Someday… But for the time being, I’m making the most of my current situation. And it is sort of nice having a job again, even if it’s not my dream job. I’ll feel like I’m accomplishing something again and it’ll give me the drive to get better at comics. I seem to manage my time better when I have a job, so that will be very welcome.
Anyways, thanks to everyone who’s been supportive/putting up with me while I was unemployed.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Hooray!
February 19th, 2009 at 3:35 am
Yay!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Congrats!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:23 am
Congratulations!
February 19th, 2009 at 6:23 am
:-))))
February 19th, 2009 at 6:56 am
I believe a little music is in order:
I’m walking on sunshine, wooah
I’m walking on sunshine, woooah
I’m walking on sunshine, woooah
February 19th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Congratulations!! Can’t wait until I one of those old lady tourist buying peanuts from you!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Wee, congrats! Peanuts are good.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Alright! Bonus: you get discounted peanuts!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Holy shit, that last panel is EPIC.
February 19th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
congrats!
February 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
congrats! Good thing you’re not allergic to peanuts, eh?
February 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I like that last panel. Is that your new facebook picture?
February 19th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Been reading your comic for a while now. Been keeping up with your plight of having trouble finding a job. Congrats dude. Love the comic. Keep up the good work. You’re gonna be a star some day.
February 19th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Congrats! Work sucks, but unemployment sucks a lot more :)
February 19th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Congratulations!
February 19th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Well done! Where is that peanut shop?
I’ve never come across one in all my years in this horrible little town…
February 19th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I cant wait till you tell the story how some old lady pulls the money to buy peanuts out of her sweety ol bra that will be a good bet you cant wait
February 21st, 2009 at 2:20 am
Congrats. You deserve better but every job does provide a new perspective. That’s what I tell myself while I do the wonderful tasks given to by the gracious employers who are kind enough to accept my petty service and pay for it by the hour…
February 24th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Just saw this. Congrats man!
June 28th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Very happy to see you received a job! :3
Make them ol’ladys happy ahaha