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I've been interested in animation for longer than I can remember. I'm mostly self taught, and seem to be improving with everything I release. I hope to one day further my skills. I love making cartoons.

Age 29, Male

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Holy hell, you remind me a lot about myself, and how I got to where I am now. I also had to deal with the "must get job" thing, and at first, I kinda skirted around that by running an eBay store for 3 years... seemed like a good idea at the time, occasional got "ok" money, usually didn't, especially near the end, when my motivation for it started to dwindle, and I realized that there were better opportunities elsewhere. Didn't help that I was deathly afraid of screwing up both the interview process and the keeping-the-job process. Long story short, I have a job now, at Publix (a store here in Hurricane Alley). If I, a socially-awkward, stupidly self-conscious numbnut (and an anxiety and adhd ridden aspie) can do pretty ok at his job for 6+ months, you should probably do fine. Good luck, mate

Oh shit, that's like almost exact to my situation, scarily close lol.

It does help reassure me that things will be fine though, so thank you for sharing ;3

If it's minimum wage, it's almost impossible to fuck up the interview. Each place has it's little quirk, and that's about it. The Subway up here requires you to call back after the interview within three days before they'll actually consider hiring you. Doesn't matter if you were polite or answered all their questions properly. You HAVE TO call them. Not sure if that's just here or in all the stores. As for where I work, all you gotta do is act like this shitty job is the greatest opportunity ever. The exact words were "If they think they're too good for the job, then we don't want them!" Now, this is minimum wage. If they could legally pay you less money, they would. The very idea that you must believe something like that is too good for you is ridiculous. If a person truly believed he wasn't good enough to work the sales floor of a grocery store, then how utterly stupid must that dumb motherfucker be? Even then, we have two of those individuals in our department. They couldn't even fill out the standard forms about themselves by themselves. Our store still hired them. If those clowns can bumble themselves into the deli department despite lacking a pair of brain cells to rub together into a single, competent thought, then you should be just fine. If you know what one-half is as a decimal, you're overqualified. Just be sure to not let them know you're overqualified.

I couldn't get a min. wage job back when I lived in South Florida though. There were more people than jobs, so it was common practice to throw out the resume if a person wasn't needed at that very moment. Of course, all job applications back then were on paper, so I'm sure most just tossed them into the trash the moment I left to avoid having to actually file them somewhere for thirty days like the applications claimed they would do.

Good luck to you, Billy. If I wasn't in the hole for 9k at the moment, I would have paid you the $12 on your Patreon to help you not feel worthless for a year. Still, you can make cartoons. I can barely draw on paper, so feel good knowing you're worth more than me (and plenty of other people, as well. I'm sure of that.)

Thank you for the encouragement, it's really appreciated ;3

I don't think I'll have trouble finding a job, last time I looked there were a ton of them available. When I think about it, I'm probably in a good area right now. I don't wanna say the town is small, because there's a lot of people and whatever, but it's not really urban since everything's kinda spread out, but there's been a lot of development going on, so more businesses are opening up and whatever, but even then, all the businesses that were there before are still looking for people constantly.

I'd imagine it'd be a minimum wage job, at the very least I would only be getting a part time job, because I don't actually need THAT much to survive, with my living arrangements, plus, you know, more time for animating ;3

Thank you for the stories of your braindead co-workers, gave me a laugh and encouragement.

No need to worry about not giving to the patreon, just the fact that you would even consider it is unbelievable to me. It's a very kind gesture.

Again, thank you for the kind words ;3

Hey, good luck on that job front. Honestly, I'm in your boat. I have to get a job, but I've been trying for years. It's just that nobody wants a college educated, degree toting 22-year-old who's been working under the table for years, lol.

Also, holy crap. 70+ videos in a year. I laud you for your drive.

Man that sucks. Luckily for me, most of the jobs around here don't even require a high school diploma, so I should hopefully not have any trouble, but the fear that I'll mess something up is still there, but I'm not gonna let that stop me ;3

Yeah, my plans are always ambitious lol I used to be able to follow through on them, but my will to actually work on things has diminished quite a bit. Maybe after getting a job I'll get that drive to work on more ambitious things, too bad I just won't have as much time! Oh the struggle lol

Best of luck man, you're going to successful at least. I hope you can get back to NG soon, for now make your job a priority!

Thanks ;3

If you need any help with editing that series, I would love to work with you! (not paid, of course)

Hey, thanks for the offer! I'm assuming you're talking about the live action series since I'm not sure how much editing could really be done for Gripp. Either way, it would definitely be interesting to see how that would turn out. I'll keep you in mind if it seems like we're running out of time and need editing assistance. Might be a bit of a pain sending files though since the footage is in 4K lol