The thread for flipping shits (and tables)

Unlike you or Plaid or others, I don't have a passion to make a living in creative/artistic endeavours, but I've at least got some advice in terms of a "day job" or other employment:

Us millennials will change jobs and fields and whatever, a lot. In the last five-ish years I've done a summer's waitstaffing, university field work, a summer in IT where I mostly did data entry, and several months' part-time checkout at a supermarket in addition to my current exchange/teaching dealie. I'm eyeing up a six-month science writing internship and (if I go back to university) will probably hop back into the service industry if I can juggle it with my studies.

The prospect of chugging through the career rungs of a "day job" until you have enough spare time/energy to pursue creative endeavours is unrealistic, because it's not our reality anymore (unless you're rich/otherwise privileged and have these things lined up for you).

If you do find immediate employment (or trade school that leads directly into it) to deal with your home financial system, it doesn't have to be a permanent thing. You can and almost certainly will shift between jobs, and have varying levels of energy at the end of the day to pursue creative endeavours (which you admit might only keep flowing if they're a reprieve from other life-drudgery).

I understand there's more immediate stuff to address, like potential brainthings or your dad's stubbornness. But (if you're up for it) a day job right now doesn't mean you'll never achieve your goal of living off your creative works.