The economy definitely makes it tough to find a job at the moment! Your friends’ experience with unsuccessful job-hunting sounds very familiar. The new direction is working for a local government and basically being the person you talk to to get licences, permits, and other documents like that. It’s pretty much a dead end in terms of career (you can move horizontally but not vertically, I guess), but it sounds chill, pays well enough, has high job security, and sounds a lot better than making money for random corporations (most of my current options include some form of marketing, which I hate)

The lighting is great! I love how the flowers glow, it’s so pretty (even though hanahaki sounds very painful). So, great art :3 but poor guy :c

My job situation is starting to maybe look a little less terrible than a few weeks ago. It’s still far from good because nobody wants to give me a job, but at least my attempts to head in a different direction aren’t immediately rejected. I have a few online tests to do, and if they go well, they’ll invite me to an interview, and maybe I’ll be able to start my “career” from scratch next year :3

Heck yeah, birthdays are a great excuse to draw! A cool drawing, your friend is a very lucky person :3

I like that idea. Although I usually only browse the Local + Subscribed feeds, it’s a nice way to show what the community has to offer when people first visit :3

Very cute and lovable :3 I like the background, it feels like it adds a lot of motion to the drawing even though it’s static

Being stinking rich would solve a lot of my problems. Very cool art, I really like the slightly desaturated colours! :3

Are the wings attached to the harness? It’d be so cool if you could just put on some working wings in real life :3

I’m sure there are outfits that fit me, but I need to experiment with different styles more. It’s a bit sad that I look pretty good in a suit but hate wearing them because they’re uncomfy x3

Lots of maid dresses I see are black, but they look really good in this pink/red colour, too! And they’re very pretty, of course. If only I could be that pretty uwu

Doors like that look so cool, but are they practical at all? I mean, you can leave them open when you drive and will eventually take off, but I’d probably bonk my head on them all the time. I’d still ride into the sunset with them, though :3

I really like the background. A ruin just outside a small town or village, where they can hang out all alone in the middle of the night. Very nice art! :3

What an adorable goober! Very cute, especially the little blep :3

I’ve finished three drawings this year, and I’m working on two more, one sorta close to done, the other just started. That’s not a lot, but it’s more than I used to do, and I’m proud of that, especially because they are getting more “proper”. All of it is personal stuff that I can’t share here, unfortunately, but I still want to draw stuff that I can upload here, too :3

I like this community tbh. The post volume isn’t overwhelming, but I still get to see cute furries regularly. Maybe it’s a bit quiet compared to r/furry or an FA feed, but I kinda like the slower pace of the fediverse.

It was always so damn soul-crushing when you got what you wanted, but then it fell off the hook when you were about to reach the chute. I know these things are designed to not let you win easily, but that makes is even meaner when you’re a child. I only managed to reach the chute when I didn’t get the thing I wanted q-q

I went to art school and it helped me grow so much as a person, it’s incredible. Unfortunately, it also made me extremely incompatible with our capitalist labour market. I’m still happy I’ve done it

For me, that’s usually because I want to go somewhere where I feel at home. Home is a place where you live, but it’s also a feeling, I think. If you live in a toxic environment and hate every minute there, it may be your home (place where you live), but it’s not where you feel at home. Home is also a place where you feel safe and where you can be yourself. And sometimes, it goes beyond that, too. Maybe life is stressful or you suffer from depression and you’re looking for an escape because even home doesn’t feel like it’s home any more. There’s so much more to “home” than having a flat or a house to live in.

I’m trying to find a part-time job for that exact reason, but it’s really tough to find one. I mean, it’s tough to find a job in general at the moment, but the part-time requirement makes it even tougher. And like the other person said, it’s always a compromise between time and money, and not everybody can make such a compromise because they genuinely need a full-time salary.

That’s why Metallica put it in their song “Enter Sandman”, which Motörhead later covered (I’m only saying that because I like the Motorhead version better)