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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8028946" data-attributes="member: 18182">A lot of folks go into the arts or creative fields knowing that it will likely be a financial struggle for them, but . . . . they might be young and foolish, they might value "working the dream" over financial stability (more likely when young), might be hoping to hit it big (in the RPG industry, working for WotC), or just not have a real great understanding of the financial downsides to pursuing the arts. High school and college career counseling isn't always top-notch.And there's a difference between knowing and knowing . . . I'm a teacher. I knew going in that teachers don't make a lot of money and face a lot of frustratingly unnecessary hurdles between them and the actual education of children. But after a few years on the job, I began to really KNOW and understand not just how difficult teaching can be, but how unnecessarily so. And it wears on you after a while . . . when you are fresh and young (or at least a newb) you can convince yourself the hardships can be overcome and outweighed by the benefits . . . but as you get older and spend more time in the field . . .Art types and teachers are far from the only underpaid and under-respected professions out there, society is pretty good at undervaluing groups of people. It's why I favor universal healthcare and universal basic income in the U.S., so that everybody gets a baseline of health, food, shelter, and retirement regardless of what career they pursue.</blockquote>

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