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Subject: RE: Re: Don't Quit Your Day Job
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On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 22:11:31 -0500,
JBooth411@aol.com wrote...
>In a message dated 96-01-13 10:12:29 EST, you write:
>
>>Carl:
>>
>>
>>Hear..Hear.. I'm in exactly the same position.. my guts tell me that if we
>>really want to be sucessful animators and keep our existing standard of
>>living, then we must start our own business and not expect to work a 'job'
>>for someone else.
>>
>>
>
> I don't agree. Sometimes this is the best way to go, sometimes it
>isn't.
>By starting your own buisiness you line yourself up for a lot of hard
>lessons. My current job is with a start up company, which I did not start.
>This has been great for me because I can see them learning the hard lessons
>(and learn from them myself) while making a great salary, and collecting
>stock in the company for overtime. The point is, don't consider any route
>out
>of the question, because there's always more than one path to take. You
just
>gotta figure out which one works for you and then go for it.
>
I've been following this thread from when it started and have a fairly
simple question. There is a lot of talk about pay cuts, going from one job
into computer animation as a full-time job rather than a hobby. I was
wondering what kind of salary someone (like myself) who is planning on going
straight out of college into animation (hopefully this is possible), will be
looking at. I guess all the talk of taking huge pay cuts for going into
animation, is starting to worry me. Because if someone with a lot of
job-experience is takeing huge cuts, where am I going to start off at.