Comments on: Art Education http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/ A discovery, discussion and exploration of Asian photography. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:19:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ronco Showtime Rotisserie http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Ronco Showtime Rotisserie Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:32:47 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-65 <strong>Ronco Showtime Rotisserie...</strong> Start eating healthier with the Ronco Showtime Rotisserie.... Ronco Showtime Rotisserie…

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]]> By: Lili Soh http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Lili Soh Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:52 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-42 Hey, at least you have experience freelancing and you know people will hire you for photography. I have that same feeling too, watching my friends go for career talks, but in this case it's my personal choice to not go into a line like finance (which i abhor) and look toward the photography industry. And yeah, I kinda suck at photography too. But Willy has offered me a job, not as a photographer of course, just as someone doing marketing/logistics/admin, and to be honest, I'd probably be pretty happy just doing that. Hmm. Not much point in my comment. Just to say, I understand. Kinda. *pats* Hey, at least you have experience freelancing and you know people will hire you for photography. I have that same feeling too, watching my friends go for career talks, but in this case it’s my personal choice to not go into a line like finance (which i abhor) and look toward the photography industry. And yeah, I kinda suck at photography too. But Willy has offered me a job, not as a photographer of course, just as someone doing marketing/logistics/admin, and to be honest, I’d probably be pretty happy just doing that. Hmm. Not much point in my comment. Just to say, I understand. Kinda. *pats*

]]> By: yaohong http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-39 yaohong Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:27:36 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-39 My worry is that if I may have the money, I may have neither time nor health (due to long working hours in a dank stinky office) to pursue my other interests and fall into a typical 9-6-TV-Sleep ritual masquerading as life. Then again, I'm always too fatalistic for my own good sometimes! My worry is that if I may have the money, I may have neither time nor health (due to long working hours in a dank stinky office) to pursue my other interests and fall into a typical 9-6-TV-Sleep ritual masquerading as life.

Then again, I’m always too fatalistic for my own good sometimes!

]]> By: michael wolf http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-35 michael wolf Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:38:53 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-35 hello yaohung, There are many things to consider, and everyone considers different things. i had a similar choice and these are some of the things i considered. Which is easier? ~there are many benefits of having a job that you don't Hate, and i job that is less Grueling. Which is more lucrative? ~Like it or not, Money is important. Money affects almost everything, and it is a source of major Worry, for everyone. Which do you Enjoy more? ~Obviously important, but I think most people don’t consider enjoyment enough. What job will be more Challenging? ~Significantly more important than people realize, if you can be great at your job in less than 5 years it probably isn’t challenging enough. Which job has longer hours? ~The longer you spend working for someone else the less time you can be doing what you love. Which job inspires more creativity? ~a tough question, because I have found my non-creative job often inspires much more desire and inspiration for creation than some job using creativity. I feel that being surround by an environment of logic and lack of creativity 8 hours a day invigorates my joy of creation. For me, I choose to go the business route doing software support for some accounting software. It sounds horrible, i admit, but it has been a great choice for me. A day spent at a desk is easy, more lucrative, likely more challenging, shorter hours, and may likely inspire your creativity more than many of the other jobs you would have to do to supplement your creativity. i’ll admit you may not enjoy it more than doing photography all day, but I don’t think that’s the only question to ask. hello yaohung,

There are many things to consider, and everyone considers different things. i had a similar choice and these are some of the things i considered.

Which is easier?
~there are many benefits of having a job that you don’t Hate, and i job that is less Grueling.

Which is more lucrative?
~Like it or not, Money is important. Money affects almost everything, and it is a source of major Worry, for everyone.

Which do you Enjoy more?
~Obviously important, but I think most people don’t consider enjoyment enough.

What job will be more Challenging?
~Significantly more important than people realize, if you can be great at your job in less than 5 years it probably isn’t challenging enough.

Which job has longer hours?
~The longer you spend working for someone else the less time you can be doing what you love.

Which job inspires more creativity?
~a tough question, because I have found my non-creative job often inspires much more desire and inspiration for creation than some job using creativity. I feel that being surround by an environment of logic and lack of creativity 8 hours a day invigorates my joy of creation.

For me, I choose to go the business route doing software support for some accounting software. It sounds horrible, i admit, but it has been a great choice for me. A day spent at a desk is easy, more lucrative, likely more challenging, shorter hours, and may likely inspire your creativity more than many of the other jobs you would have to do to supplement your creativity.

i’ll admit you may not enjoy it more than doing photography all day, but I don’t think that’s the only question to ask.

]]> By: yaohong http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-30 yaohong Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:06:41 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-30 Heya luke, i'm pretty much doing that right now. Just going with the flow. Not sure where it will take me though! Strangely, I kinda lost my dreams on the way here...then again, maybe it's just because I've been feeling so uninspired at the moment. Maybe tomorrow will be better. :) Heya luke, i’m pretty much doing that right now. Just going with the flow. Not sure where it will take me though! Strangely, I kinda lost my dreams on the way here…then again, maybe it’s just because I’ve been feeling so uninspired at the moment.

Maybe tomorrow will be better. :)

]]> By: luke cassady-dorion http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-29 luke cassady-dorion Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:57:26 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-29 hmmm in your list above, you forgot to mention marrying rich :) hmmm in your list above, you forgot to mention marrying rich :)

]]> By: luke cassady-dorion http://chngyaohong.com/blog/art/art-education/comment-page-1/#comment-28 luke cassady-dorion Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:56:37 +0000 http://chngyaohong.com/blog/uncategorized/art-education/#comment-28 during highschool i thought that i wanted to study photography and foreign languages in university but ended up studying computer science because i thought it would be more practical (in very american form my parents told me to study anything that made me happy) ... i was interested in computer science but was also neglecting a big part of what i was interested. i ended up working 8 years writing software, made tons of money in the internet thing that happened and then lost it all too. now i'm teaching ashtanga yoga in bangkok and spending all my free time (and money) being involved with photography and language study. sort of strange how it all happened really, and i have absolutely where it will take me. you know, i started this post with the intention of telling you to follow your dreams ... but now i think my advice is to go with the flow of things. there is no reason you need to stick with one career for your whole life. i'm 30 years old now and am looking into going back to university to get a bachelors in the thai language and also finding a way to study art more formally. during highschool i thought that i wanted to study photography and foreign languages in university but ended up studying computer science because i thought it would be more practical (in very american form my parents told me to study anything that made me happy) … i was interested in computer science but was also neglecting a big part of what i was interested.

i ended up working 8 years writing software, made tons of money in the internet thing that happened and then lost it all too. now i’m teaching ashtanga yoga in bangkok and spending all my free time (and money) being involved with photography and language study. sort of strange how it all happened really, and i have absolutely where it will take me.

you know, i started this post with the intention of telling you to follow your dreams … but now i think my advice is to go with the flow of things. there is no reason you need to stick with one career for your whole life. i’m 30 years old now and am looking into going back to university to get a bachelors in the thai language and also finding a way to study art more formally.

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