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Creative equals independence, freedom of choice. Spontaneity. Authenticity ? And letting the animal out ! :-D _ i believe we can find creativity in the day to day conversations, in the bedroom, in the everyday choices that we make. enjoying tbe choices that we do have and sometimes don't even imagine. Like pausing for three breaths or walking a little bit slower to enjoy the rain, the sunshine or the sound of the windchime. We need inspirations, like mindful practices and rituals. Or feng shui. Or canevas that open our mind, like the 5 languages of love, or the 7 verbs of Ester Perel, or the 6 hats. or Byron Katie's ideas about the work. I do understand it is difficult for the animal that we are, and the human adult, and our inner child to work all day with no play. I like to live by the famous sentence of the singer Seal '' werent going to to survive unless we get a little crazy '' Ring the bells that still can ring ! There is a crack in everything ! That's how the life gets in ! That's how the light get's in ! (Anthem by L. Cohen)
My idea is there wasn't much garggles carvers neither lol. But i loved your idea. I always loved gargles. This meets my idea of letting the animal out. And teaming with the inner child. This IS what garggles helps me to do ! Maybe we always lacked creative jobs and there always was an aspiration for the divine, the sublime, an irrisistible appeal for the '' extraordinary'', fantasy and freedom. Garggles are a great symbol of something desirable and at the same time not ''civilised'' and '' ugly '' and '' naughty ''. Interesting ! Let's invite garggles and other chimeras into our lives and see what happens ;-)
Freedom escape a chance to express yourself happiness rewarding able to inspire others including yourself to inspire more creativity to be a individual to meet other creative people and a reason to wake up every morning with a smile on your face Shame this world sucks
Less creative jobs now? SERIOUSLY? Significant part of the digital development market is creative jobs or at least allows for quite a lot of creativity -- video game designers, content creators on platforms like youtube etc. Also there are many fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, graphic designers of all kinds and creative architecture isn't dead either -- there are plently of super creative building popping up all over the world. Of course there is more non-creative work, humanity cannot afford to build every building as a uniquie perl yet, but compared to previous generations there are many more creative jobs and much more room for creativity on the market now. Definitely more than ever before, it's mind-boggling how someone can think otherwise.
Hello there Teddy! I am very sorry that you felt depressed by watching this video. And of course you are right. It really is a very depressing subject. But on the other hand, we can't blame the messenger you know... They are stating a fact that there is. When we watch the news in the evening and feel depressed, we don't blame the newsspeaker either. May be you think that they only talk about the problems and they don't offer us solutions here. But indeed they do. If you wish, you can take a look at these videos from this channel: 1. How to find fulfilling work 2. How to find meaningful work 3. Finding your mission 4. Why you still have time to change career I really hope that they will make you feel better! Have a nice weekend!
That's what the internet is for. Many artists are now having an easier time with their careers because of social media and the ability to be fully independent (not having to rely on the approval of a gallery operator). This is a good thing!!!
Ppl arent supposed to depend on a job or a paycheck to make their way in life .thats just a parody of a tragedy. ppl need to depend on their skills and talents to have fufilment lest you will become outdated and replaced by a robot .
SEEMS TO BE AN ANTI CAPITALISM VIDEO IDEALIZED TO GENERATE PROPAGANDA AMONG DE CAPITALISTIC SOCIETIES THAT ARE SURE TO BE NOT PERFECT; BUT IT ES THUS FAR THE BEST WAY TO ORGANIZE OUR SOCIETY. IT IS WISE THAT THE CREATORS OF THESE VIDEOS USE THE FRUSTRATIONS OF PEOPLO TO HAVE MORE REBEL ATTITUDES IN THEIR SOCIETIES. IT SEEM MORE THAT THEY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS PER SE; BUT WITH A VERY DEFINED POLITICAL AIM. I BET IT IS PART OF THE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH OF THE ANTI WEST SOCIETIES WORLD POWERS WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF THESE; MY FIRST BET IS RUSSIA.
As a college student graduating soon, this TOTALLY resonated with me in terms of the importance of breaking out of the mold that society wants me to fit into. I was put on this planet for much more than manufactured mediocrity!
The day that you admit to yourself that you have no purpose and that you are an ever-shrinking cog in an ever-growing machine, you'll be able to move on from the fallacy that there's a dream job for everyone. Be creative in your personal life, take up a hobby, or travel the world. Don't waste your time chasing red herrings that ultimately end up being no different than the work you've done previously. Money is a tool, not the be all and end all.
I literally got rejected from a fashion stylist position just now. I needed this. Badly. I'm never going back to an office job. I'm still going to try and get there. I'm not giving up. Any support in the comments would be greatly appreciated. Feeling a little disheartened as you can imagine x
Don't worry @Zara Clark, no-one has their life figured out. I'd recommend a school of Philosophy called Stoicism to help cope with the inevitable tragedies that seem to be a prerequisite to consiousness and life per se. Cheers! We are all in this together, if you look at the big picture.
@@aksyshank thank you very much, I will check it out! It probably doesn't seem like a big deal to most, I just put my all into it and to get rejected hurts like hell you know?
i agree that art has been largely capitalised, especially in the graphic design sector, but i feel like there has always been like 'paid job vs work you actually want to do'. creative freedom is something that has always been lacking because we sacrifice it for money, or the job we do for money has restrictions. literally having complete creative freedom is really difficult.
The future in creative jobs belongs to those who are self starters and carve out there own opportunities. Being an artist now also means being a bo$$ 💕🦋
I'm a Creative Director (meaning, I see tons of people in creative roles), and recently while shopping for modern furniture (and chairs) I've found no shortage of options, price ranges, and abounding creativity. I'd argue that it's easier to make your creative idea come to fruition today, than ever. You can start your own business with an idea, a computer, and very limited funds. Maybe instead of carving gargoyles, we're designing and developing indie video and VR games, new user experiences & design patterns, and publishing music independently. We're in a very creative time, with more affordable and accessible tools than ever.
Exactly. In the olden days only the rich 1%(or whatever percentage of ppl were rich or nobles) could commission and enjoy art. They would pay artisans and musicians to play for tgem and design what they want. Besides theater and chùrch, the general population did not enjoy art such as concerts, literature etc Except it did increase in 20th century with cities
Nonsense point. We have far more free time to pursue creative endeavors than ever before. There was a time when all of our time was occupied growing food, cooking,washing clothes by hand, cutting wood,ect. Everyday assistance consumed our every waking moment.There was little to no time for artistic endeavors. Many a genius was never realized because they were milking a cow or hoeing the corn by hand. The actual point here is that due to more exposure and being witness to the best of the best we now realize the mediocrity of the average person. What we now call everyday items in our homes would have once been the possessions and entertainment of kings.What we lack in the developed world is the appreciation of the unfathomable wealth and experience we live out everyday. First world problems.
[creative designer here] I'm confident that the vast majority of people who don't have creative jobs who say they want a job like mine...wouldn't actually like it. You can't not care about what your doing yet, a room full of people who don't know or care about what you have made are often free to tear it apart. Their worse version will be released and when it doesn't work, they will blame you. Most of the work is explaining why you did something a specific way. Like teaching rocket science to children, over and over. Rinse, repeat. Tbf, it's not all bad that said, I don't see a vast untapped well of creativity in the managers, accountants et al I meet. I see people playing 'grass is greener' game. They want the idea of a creative job maybe, but they don't want what I have: it's too hard, for too little money, for too little power. Often, they don't have the emotional rigor to manage a creative role, even if they could do the basic day to day of it.
C - I’ll second that. As a designer/ fabricator/ builder/ maker/ problem solver/ over thinker/ obsessive/ self critical/ business minded individual that I am. Working in a creative position, taking direction, giving direction, and making it work day after day is grueling if your not tempered. I make a comfortable living but no where near rich in the monetary sense. I am rich in the freedom to learn from my mistakes with my job. Take ownership over the work I do, and be willing to say “I don’t know”. There first needs to be a confrontation of ones limitations that needs to be acknowledged in pursuit of a creative career. I think someone who has wanting a creative career stuck in a non creative job is to gripped by fear to pursue one. The path isn’t linear and defined like surgeons or doctor but requires the same amount of discipline and rigor to the realm of creative pursuit. If you have the gumption for creative work you have to be willing to put up with a lot of nonsense along the way that cannot be taught only learned.
@@djgogh you are so true to when you say - Their worse version will be released and when it doesn't work, they will blame you. - ... When you explain to people the reasoning behind the design/function sometimes the client does not want to hear it or believe it because they think they know better after years of training and understanding the people in power still think they know better. Their ego is our down fall.
I don’t think the definition of “creative” you’re using here is the same as in the video. The work of “creative” jobs like yours is not equivalent to the unique sculpting of a gargoyle (an interesting nuance that could be explored further!) Plus, just because you don’t see untapped creative potential in other people doesn’t mean it does not or could not exist. Their creativity could have dried up, unstimulated, or you might not be seeing them at their best creative minds.
Not just you, they're herding us. We should all get together and talk about exactly what led us here, bet it's some grand mind control experiment by google
I sacrificed love and family to follow my dream job. I regret nothing: now I know that I have the opportunity to be happy one day, at least. But I had the chance to survive while walking my path and I feel so sympathetic for those who were not as lucky as I was and are stuck in a monotonous or hard job but still they do it at their best, for the sake of duty. Those are some of the true heroes of our days, the ones who makes our society to function imho.
"Crearivity" is subjective and anyone can interpret it however they want. Im an IT major, so I believe for me personally that's how im creative with website development and my data visualizations i create. Creative doesn't just limit to art, music, and theater, etc.
Hmmm, not sure about that. It’s very likely that you will be using some kind of best practices of software development. You will write the code that’s very similar to the code of thousands other people. Even when you will be doing some system design, there will be only 10 different combinations of microservices that you can use. Your choice will likely be limited because you’ll want to use whatever is popular in the industry, or whatever fits your requirements. From what I see in my generalist role, and from what I saw from working with devs, you get an opportunity to show creativity and design some elegant solution only once is 4-6 months. And likely your creativity will offer a marginal improvement for the overall product you’re building. Source: I work in IT/Tech. But yeah, I still think we should rise against the meaninglessness, and search for creativity and meaning in life.
Whatever your hobbies are, those are your "real" job, the one that lets you sleep well at night. They are like the shy kid with talent you have to drag onstage, then wow.
Being a designer, I kind of agree with School of life but not fully. Your outlook on what creativity is essentially pretty narrow. Even a person operating in this capitalist worlds needs to solve problems at individual level and their the role of creativity is maximised.
I'm not sure "solving problems" equates to being creative. Or rather, only that. I'd say, that's a pretty constrictive way of being creative. A pretty capitalist view of "how you can put your mark on things".
Creative jobs require high skill, drive, and the want. The larger the population the more creative people there are, yet too many don't seize the opportunity to be creative; only because they want to stay in a comfortable life with little risk.
Yes, and the video is explaining how we got to a point where being creative requires risk taking, rather than being a natural part of work the same way it is a natural part of the human spirit
exactly. If you are really creative, the mob won't understand, and therefore the demand for your services will be lower than for a mob job. You have to really put yourself out there and for the committed few, you can really make a go of it.
Theres no such thing as a creative job . the first humans to make art didnt do it for a check and humans today that make a job out of making art are actually retarded .
There's a difference between a *job* and a *career*. You can't expect your *job* to be creative: after all, it's just a job. On the other side, a *career* can be very fulfilling, but requires risks and sacrifices. Pick your compromise.
@@nicoloss9978 only if you pick dull jobs. If you truly are creative you will not end up in IKEA or Applr or such. Maybe you will have connections with people who have great ideas, you start a company, you create your own products or designs. The only downside is that you will produce them with machines but not with your hand. But even that is possible. At least you will build prototypes by your own. You are so far that you don't need chinese workers in factories, you know how you build your own designed chair, you know how to print your book, you know it all, but to sell it you won't do it alone. Also most creative people build up companies or are freelancers. They don't pick jobs, they do what they want to fund their ideas There are no dull jobs, only dull people. And creative people are not dull.
This is kind of depressing. But it also makes me realize that my choice to "go it alone" and do my freelance thing means my work has a far deeper meaning (for me) than just making enough money to cover the bills. I think the increase in "side hustles" in which people are trying their hand at a creative endeavor for some side money while working a full time job is evidence that we ache for something more in our lives than the routines we typically fall into at work.
@@KramGamesOfficial they actually don't, especially if you consider that they're unpaid for planning lessons or marking which they have to do in their own time (my mums a teacher)
I walked away from a six figure income job to be independent, more creative, and have more freedom. Been doing it for years now, travel the world constantly, have a great business and still do just as well. Chase your dreams people!
@@exploremoreoutdoors and here I am born in the wrong country without a glimpse of chance of making it out of this place, suicidal, depressed as if I am sitting in a death seat waiting for it to be turned.
Most work today is just managing and operating, very few do creating. Bear in mind though, creative jobs are harder, because combing exisiting ideas and creating new value isn’t simple, but with practice and observation, it gets much easier.
Caras Life on the Farm you'll never have time. Be creative every day, like eating. Any work can be creative. Don't compartmentalise it to 'evenings' etc. Same rules as 'being healthy', it's not happening at the gym, it's happening everywhere
Lots of people have creative hobbies. I find immense pleasure in computer graphics and tinker around when I get some free time. But the problem: A 9 to 5 job in an unrelated field and finding time after all the commute and everything, to work on something you like..is hard.
Where are all of the creative jobs?? Look on the internet!!! RU-vid, Twitch, Twitter, etc.... Many independent artists are going to the internet and building careers for themselves. In old days, artists used to have to rely on gallery operators or publishers to get their work out there. That's all changed now!! If you don't want a creative job tho, just go get a PhD and work for a lab as another cog in the wheel.
i worked in warehouse and production ... it was a nightmare ... i dont know how some poeple can work there for years .. i worked there for a month and i was depressed af. Every day order picking or packing ... terrible job. The true slavery of modern world. They fired me becouse i wasnt working fast enough.
I know the feeling the same might happen to me in my retail janitor role I hate it but there is zero opportunity where I live I'm a prisoner at the job centre
I think it is important to note that even those lucky enough to have an aspect of creativity in their paid occupation have to perform many non-creative tasks as part of their work day. Another thing to remember is that not everyone cares if they satisfy their creative urges at work or in their leisure time. I had a high paying job with little creativity but wrote at night to balance myself out. Not all creative works have to be produced for mass consumption. Some remain personal pursuits.
I am working as a management consultant and proactively adding artsy activities to my life to balance myself out. I have a lot of appreciation for my job and company but recently this idea occurred to me that I want to be a creative director in 3-5 yrs. I feel like I have so much creativity to offer which could be appreciated more and make me feel more rewarded. However, I don't want to start from the bottom up ( say in ad agency, designer - art director - creative d). Such a dilemma.
What is the difference in the percentage of creative jobs historically? Most were peasants in the fields which, though not as back breaking as we can sometimes assume, was fairly monotonous and hard labor. Stone Mansions where part of the creative 1%, so skilled and prised for that skill that they were allowed to travel freely and form a strong and enduring guild (from which the freemasons get their name). I'm all for expanding the the number of people in creative and fulfilling jobs but I think it is unnecessary to invoke the beautiful poison of a false nostalgia. The lack of fulfilling work has been an enduring problem exacerbated by taking people out of the natural environment and away from community. What changed now is that we have the resources to reshape our world; we should make fulfilling work not to return to an era of fulfilling work but because we and our ancestors deserved fulfilling work. Thank you for the lovely and thought provoking video :)
Thanks. This idea of 'it used to be better' is not correct. It focuses on tiny group of free men. Most were servants and women. But maybe tending to the kids and the food and the household and the crop and the livestock is partly creative - but also very repetative.
I'm so lucky I could never keep a job when I was young. Because of that, despite how smart and industrious I am, I was always having to start over in new fields. The result was that years later when I finally got my act together enough to deal well with others professionally, I was able to thrive in my own business. I had a stunning array of work experience, and it helped me build a very successful business very quickly after a layoff, even as recession set in for the general economy. Being self-employed is the creative outlet of my dreams, lots of freedom AND lots of money. Only now I'm not even self-employed anymore. I'm retired youngish and simply have creative projects that I don't even bother to monetize, even though I probably could. Don't knock bouncing from one boring job to another for some years. You still gain experience. But also don't settle into it. Keep aiming for more until you manage to create it.
I agree, designing and programming industrial machines my example as a 29 year old. You just need an engineering degree and about 4-5 years of experience. Good luck to anyone lucky enough to read it in their early 20s
+ioic+ seems like an oxymoron, creativity and self-expression comes from work that is led by you, while a job denotes tasks resulting from someone else’s creativity~
Wow, that was depressing. I kept waiting for them to offer some solutions, some ideas about what to do about this predicament they were describing so eloquently. Nothing. They just said it is what it is, deal with it. :(
@@matiasgarciacasas558 To be an artist is to be part of capitalism. Trade is how we make money. Capitalism is a good thing and been in existence in this country since it began. Only left wing loons in the last 20 years think something is wrong with it. Get an education.
@@TippyPuddles "only left wing loons in the last 20 years". You definetly need to learn more about history. Since the very beggining of capitalism (which was definetly not something that only happened in the US) there were people criticizing it. Many, many countries today try to interfere and regulate in some way the process of capital to minimize some of its worst effects.
Honestly I think "creative" jobs are overrated. All the fashion designers etc. aren't necessarily happier than the average joe. I think we all want (and should strive for) a fulfilling job, where we have a sense of purpose, goals, and clear steps we can take to achieve our goals. But that is very different from being creative. If you can be creative in your job that's awesome, but to me that is just a bonus. You don't need it to be happy.
I find it boring , that capitalism imposes certain products and ideas. The value of creative idea comes from being rare , so once shared on large scale thanks to capitalism it loses most of its attractiveness. The creative is to be " unique"
Capitalism sucks the uniqueness out of everything! Everything becomes a mass product... And all things are so exactly tailored to the mainstream, that it creates the next mainstream, wich means at some point it all just becomes one product (you can see this in popular music, were everything sounds the same!)
@@FelonyArson man , the extreme level of capitalism is now manufacturing the human and standardize the beauty , intelligence, and tailoring the definitions ..
Human beings now find themselves in an even bigger pond now. In fact, the pond is so huge, even the biggest fish look small. I went to film school, made over 30 projects while I was there, and haven’t been able to make a living off of my work since I left over 7 years ago. It’s depressing and I wish SoL was around making these videos before I decided to “follow my heart”.
Etsy & Tindie tho bro. Its not only millionares who can have creative jobs. But like others here have said - you must make this job yourself. Perhaps fittingly, creating your own job(s) tends to be a nessesary step towards working in a creative job.
Some jobs suck, for sure. But what matters most is how we relate to the tasks we have to do in each moment. In the end, almost any job can be a good job.
@@Niko-oe9qo I think thats exactly what he is saying: if you stay in the moment you will find the fullfiment. Mediocrity its inerent to human condition
Create something new... there are plenty of creative jobs out there: marketer, artist, designer, architect, salesman, teacher, coach, etc... or just take up a hobby as a creative outlet... the last thing I would want to do is toil over building a cathedral or castle that took a couple hundred years to complete... one is as creative as one wants to be...
@@talkcommonsense I am so much happier doing illustration. As for architects job, design is only 10percent of architects work. Most of the work are project management with planning authority, clients, contractors, consultants and other colleagues. There are a lot of components like, drainage, air duct, electric circuit, ceilings, floor tiles, toilets, elevators, escalators to put into the drawings. This is not a creative profession. Off course, there are some so called creative practices, but only the designer architect do the small portion of design. There are project architects who run the project, and architects who draft the documents and specification. Also, there are even more uncreative practices which do not care about design at all.
@@talkcommonsense only the boss do the design usually. Everyone else is just slave to the boss. It is no difference to other office work. Also there are only few design architects who get a chance to design museum or institutional buildings. Most of the buildings are offices and shopping mall which the clients do not care.
I wanted to be a writer for a living but that didn't pay. I worked in a corporate hospital with no creativity at all. I decided to try making a game, but making games is extremely competitive and a very difficult living. I found a solution by making adult video games for a living at the time it just barely became available. It's lucrative and I can write literally anything I want. You can be creative and make a living if you find a crack in the system, but it's difficult however you do it. My example wouldn't be successful (or desirable) for many, but opportunities can be taken if you've got the education to see them and pursue the ones you see. There are better ways out there if you know they're there.
The basis of creativity, at least when you're working for a client or targeting customers, is problem solving: how can you eliminate or reduce the pains they're facing in a way that's unique, or at least better than your competition? While not creative in an artistic sense, being able to develop innovative solutions is a much more marketable and valuable skill. And I say that as someone who works in what's considered a creative field.
Modern economic system doesn't value self-expression and true lasting beauty. human personality is not cherished and valued, it's being reduced to ashes by our mundane lifestyles and stupid laws. it is the agenda, make no mistake. no government is interested in an evolved and conscious individual. that's why all true artists are poor these days. they do not solve any problems in this society. those who are rich are likely social media whores pleasing audience's need to belong to «something creative» by doing a selfie or reposting. endless reposting and remixing that what most of art is today. either that or you find your niche in applying your art to manufacturing/sales, i.e. design or ads/marketing. the gap between «art celebrities» sponsored by corporations with their agendas, and your average creative joes working his ass off just to survive is becoming bigger every day. dance music scene and the fall of Resident Advisor is a prime example of that. underground went corporate. money money money money money.
Do what you want. Money will eventually come if you show up everyday (like working 9-5) and you put in the time. You cannot just try it on the side and expect something to happen. You have to put something at risk.
And if we cannot add our humanity, our creative spark, our little drop of the divine, into our work, it's not merely 'boring', it's meaningless. And if our work is meaningless, much of our lives become meaningless. So, we'll need to anesthetize ourselves with pharmaceuticals or Netflix or endure our depression and anxiety. . . I found this true with teaching as well. Our increasing reliance on standardized curriculum drives out all the creatives. During the last years of my teaching career, I felt like a master craftsman being asked to work on an assembly line. I think our children understand this, and that's why so many are medicated. They are the canaries in the coal mines, and instead of fixing the mine, we are medicating the canaries. Very sad and dehumanizing; insulting to the soul . . I hope the local food/artisan movements can counteract this headlong dive into standardized globalization (globalized standardization?), but that hope is waning. .
Why are you trying to comfort those that did not follow their dreams and went all in on their heart? Lately all your videos have this 'it's ok to be extremely normal and not do anything with your life' vibe. Giving false comfort is LYING! The founder of School Of Life created a wonderful creative life for himself, why can't the viewer do the same?
They're just explaining the reality of modern life for most people in many countries. This video seemed to have an anti-capitalist vibe to it. More of a call to arms than about accepting the status quo.
Because not everyone will make a comfortable life doing exactly what they want, some are fortunate enough to find the thing they love makes good money in this society, where as others will find their passion is worth only so much, it'll never make them financially secure or in some cases not enough to live on.
"Follow you dreams no matter what" is dangerous advice; many people currently crippled by student loan debt were "following their dreams," only to realize that their dream profession wouldn't earn them enough to offset the cost of their education, further less live comfortably. Not to mention that dreams change. What you dream of doing at age five is going to be very different from what you dream of doing at fifteen, or fifty. People develop new passions, change careers, or shift priorities throughout their lives. Encouraging people to go all in on the first thing they think they'd like to do can blind people to the range of new opportunities and experiences that they might equally enjoy and be better suited for.
The thing about having a "creative job" is that...you have to be creative. Often in more than one way. Not only do you have to be able to manifest your idea, but market it. Thanks to capitalism, you CAN market it, even if it's a tough market. Capitalism is what's boomed economic prosperity and has allowed a free market so that one CAN produce their idea and sell it. If people aren't getting that "creative job" that they so desire, I assure you, it isn't due to capitalism. It's due to lack of either creativity OR marketing skills. Don't blame your shortcomings on some external force and play the victim. We are the makers of our fortunes and have, in a free marker society, the FREEDOM to pursue our goals and objectives and then to market them. People are coming up with new ideas EVERY. DAY. And these ideas are going to market and earning them money. Hence, this video is garbage and encourages people to feel like it isn't THEIR fault when they fail. That's a childish mentality. When you fail, and you will, you must take responsibility and push forward until you succeed, NOT just say "oh well" and give up on your dreams.
This video never answers it's own question. Instead it summarizes the dull & uninspiring world of modern mechanization, which is dully controlled by the global elite. Totally Uninformative, filled with clichés & void of anything insightful or inspiring.
Ending on a high note.. for a change, I guess give up and go drink myself to death was the final message? creative observance = see a need fill a need, still a viable model is how i would have ended that. you have a silky voice but when you use it to dull the pain of stabbing people in the heart you get my point.. jesus your depressing merry christmas people.
Gee, it's almost like working on something but being denied any sort of creative control over your work can be somewhat... *alienating*? *stares in Marx*
This message misses the point. Creativity is not about the work itself or the result, it is about the intention we have when doing the things we do. If we are mindful and in the moment, no job in itself is boring. Any work is as creative or as boring as the intention and attention of the person who is performing it. Anything we do with love and attention, is creative in itself, no matter what it looks like from the outside. Come on School of life, you can do better than this. Be creative!
This video awaked up some of my fears of the incertanty, since in couples months I will graduate from Architecture school and I am realizing that the majority of the job opportunities I will be faced up with are very below my initial expectations (not when it comes to money but instead when it comes to having time and space to make a real contribution to our urban environment). Some of my peers also share the same struggles and are starting to demand for a change or in some cases being the change creating new ways of putting their skills to a good social use; so I have hope that maybe, being history cyclical, in the future more and more individuals will stand against emptiness of values and unworthy standardization and demand quality over quantity.
I think many more jobs than you think can be creative. For example, I am a caregiver for special needs people. I have to be creative when coming up with ways to do many things like come up with routines or come up with ways to make day to day tasks more accessible. My parents work office jobs where they have to be creative in coming up with budgets, schedules, and new ways to do things too.
Creativity is hard to measure so you can't create a 'job role' around such a parameter without having to closely manage it at which point you may as well do the job yourself...Its often the creative ppl who create the job role to free them up from having to do the boring stuff so they can focus on being even more creative.
Another deep and thought provoking video. I agree that important aspects of life, money, creativity, AND others, are accumulating with a few and squeezed out of many. When we are taught values that are removed from our grasp, it's setting people and societies and cultures up for . . . . for failure. This is a problem for which no countering ideology is available. This problem might be contributing to the chaos that we see around us. I hope someone can explain this problem in a more understandable way. This video is a good start. Can someone please contribute to explaining this better? Our descendants will thank you and you will find fame and honor.
It all hit me at once. I seen the path I was on in life wasn’t fulfilling and didn’t bring me joy out of each and every day I lived. So I started making RU-vid videos and held it to a Hugh priority on my life and noted that there was no two ways about it, I either live a life we’re I am my own boss or I never work a job. Life is so fragile and I find it disrespectful to give yourself a career that makes you numb and hurt every day you sit in that office chair.
what if we would opt for a more modest income in compensation for that creative freedom? humble start-ups and niche products? maybe? am I too positive?
I put myself through an sfx college, and yet no one wants to hire me. Its beyond frustrating that I dropped 3 years of my time and $80k to not get hired..it seems like in my industry, only the ones with decades of experience are the ones to get hired, instead of hiring someone that knows the beginner techniques and training them to be great. End rant lol I'm still looking up though and doing my best to be patient. It's just hard sometimes
I am an electronics engineer of 30 years. My jobs used to be interesting, plenty & well paid...But today?...think it is well paid? Think I get to be creative? Think I have all sorts of jobs available to me?...think again! No employers want people with big experience because big experience means expensive. I now keep my creativity for my own projects because it is the only place I am allowed to be truly creative...
I’m a programmer. While I might not have the opportunity to create something like a painting, I get the chance to write beautiful code. When I solve a difficult problem well, it’s very rewarding.
So many lies in this. Build the life you want with the talents you have. Don't believe anything somebody tells you that destroys your inner hopes and dreams.
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I see a lot of people see this as depressing with no solution. I see this as more of an eye opener that if you are a creative you should understand just how competitive the market is. As opposed to the past when people cared more for craftsmanship and quality.... and if you are a creative. Create a more creative its not that your ideas are impossible. But In order to stand out you should understand what you are up against. That this is the modern world.
Imagine how long the apprenticeship was to become a master and build a gargoyle. Probably started with carrying stone, then making round stones into square ones for 20 years. If you made a mistake it was literally in stone.
Creative people always work being creative, either by looking for jobs where they can be creative, or outright changing paradigms inside places where other people wouldn't have, non creative people settle for non creative jobs because they simply have no creativity.
This is simply not true, and a bad analysis at that. There is evidence that supports the opposite: that the internet has liberated creative industries and increased demand for creative people. Take the Amazon book store. Half of the books that Amazon sells has never ever been sold in a physical book store. In other words, thousands of authors that couldn't have made a living selling books in physical store (because of gatekeepers, physical limitations etc) now make a living writing books. This rings true for more than books, where the internet builds millions of nisched communities about every possible interest. Secondly, look at a practicing architect or artist in the 19th century. These people didn't have room for extraordinary "creativity" in their work. Most buildings in Paris follow a strict visual pattern, because architecture was a practice that was passed down by the older generation of architects, rules which you didn't break (hence limiting creativity). The same goes for the overwhelmingly amount of paintings ever painted. The 19th century artist painted almost exactly the same as the one who trained him, limiting creative expressions. That is why most paintings before the impressionists look very similar. If that is creativity, but not working at the design department, or engineering department at Apple, well then you're just cherrypicking to fit the narrative.
You pull this crap right out of your butt. Even the slick attempt to some how suggest that some time in the past, before capitalism got "too big and evil", that there were more gargoyle craftsmen than let's say regular brick-laying stone masons - just for fun let's consider that today's version of a factory line assembler. These videos are designed to just fuel resentment for capitalism. Creative job positions will always come with higher competition for them - including those gargoyle craftsmen, ya know, back in the heyday. Likewise, new creative products or businesses will always come with a risk to compete in a market where buyers typically want something as cheap as possible. Stop blaming the "capitalists". It's a two way street, that capitalism. Which is getting far easier to build a small, creative business by the day.
Wrong. Capitalism, for all its flaws is a champion of creativity compared to other economic systems. If you analyze capitalism by itself then it seems rather oppressive, but if you compare it to economies run by the state then the argument falls apart. That's basically what capitalism is, freedom from the tyranny of the state. The right to open your own business, get a business loan and declare bankruptcy if the business fails. This allows individuals the opportunity to take risks in opening say a dog bakery in Portland OR. How many dog bakeries are there in non capitalist economies? Responsible governments with capitalist economies do however recognize the potential tyranny of the private sector in the form monopolies and enact laws to mitigate these potentials such as anti-trust laws, requirements of contracting to small businesses, and tax incentives to small businesses so that individuals can bring their creative forces, if the have them, to the economy and compete against big business. Unfortunately most people are not creative in ways that are useful to others and that mostly explains why being creative is hard to monetize. Furthermore, people should be careful about demonizing the "1%" since if you live in the west, you are likely in the 1% compared to the rest of the world. If you consider people that lived historically then you live in the top 0.01%. Those boring uncreative jobs that you bemoan would have been welcomed to by the majority of humans that have lived.
So I don’t know shit about anything but I’m pretty sure this is wrong, there are probably hundreds of creative jobs that have been created only in the past 50 year and I think your comparing that to the job of making gargoyles... sure with something like 7 billion people there will be more people with ‘non-creative’ jobs but there are (at least in first world countries) a lot of new opportunities for making a living being creative... ALOT more than when Gargoyle Making was a job.
Let's see. In the beginning we were hunter gatherers. Then we had agriculture. Then we had factory jobs. Throughout human history very few people relative to the population engaged in "creative" labor because there simply wasn't time for it. You can only roll your eyes at the absurdity of people think the world today is any different than before. What is different, is that there are far more creative jobs than ever in the history of the world. If you want to be creative, be creative: on your own time and your own dime. In the world of work, your creativity is limited to the boundaries of the job. And there's nothing wrong with that. There are a lot of goofy people that think being creative means there can't be a single rule to limit it. Programming is coming up with creative solutions to complex problems. If your job is your life, you have no life. Work is 40 hours a week. There are 168 hours in a week. That means your job is only 25% of your life. And that's only when working full time. When you retire, you have more time for creative pursuits with little concern for income.
When you are hired for a job, you are paid to perform a robotic task, no matter how sophisticated that task may be. Whether it's holding a flag beside road construction or performing heart surgery, jobs do not exist as an outlet of creativity. There are a few exceptions: for instance, professional musicians and fine artists. But rarely is anyone working for the 'man' and allowed creative expression. But if you want a silver lining look at it this way: never has it been easier to get exposure for doing something creative. If you want your work to be creative, then do the arduous work of building your own brand or business. Entrepreneurs--even low level entrepreneurs--are creative in ways that employees never can be. Not everyone is cut out for that kind of task, but if you're someone longing for that kind of free and creativity then you likely are. There are many societal ills and the system is not fair. Capitalism mirrors the law of the jungle. But we live in a time when you have tools at your disposal that the world has never had. In other words you are not disempowered. If you want to do creative work, there is a path, but it is a trail you must blaze yourself.
There are a lot of people in the comment section who have criticised the content of the video. And I agree with a lot of them but I'm also trying to understand what the video was trying to say. I guess what the video was trying to say was that in the past you could be creative with the mundane jobs that you were given. There was far less standardization with regards to how one actually worked. Thus even though there was a standard way of making gargoyles, an individual builder could, even if he was a mere lowly worker, add his own touches to it or approach its construction in his own way. He may not get paid much for it but he did have a considerably larger space for attempting minor innovations in his approach. Which meant that even if the job wasn't 'creative' by itself, there wasn't much of a desire to escape or find inspiration beyond one's occupation to satisfy one's creative impulses. Ofcourse there were and always will be jobs which won't allow men to be creative. But with industrialisation the way we view creativity itself has changed. For the artisans of old times it was a way to add meaning to their lowly jobs, like a humble potter engrossed in painting stick figurines on his pots to be sold in the bazzar the next day. He wasn't a particularly famous potter ; neither were his pots objectively better than those of others. His product was a solution to a problem, yes. But it wasn't invented by him and neither had he made any fundamental changes to its design. His creativity was purely for himself. It wasn't meant to serve any greater purpose or even to be appreciated by the general public for that matter. Now creativity in one's work or creativity when considered professionally is about finding solutions to problems either known or yet unknown or making better versions of existing solutions. It's supposed to build an audience for oneself and provide value for those who seek you. Which are all legitimate expectations but it can be argued that creativity has not just been made subservient to industrialisation but is also being exploited for the sake of it. The video isn't saying that creative jobs don't exist anymore. But it would be difficult to argue that standardization hasn't affected how creatives view their work. Today if you're good at something the desire is to reach to a large audience and corner as much of the market as possible. If some designer has designed a really innovative new line of clothing he or she'll either mass produce it in China under a big brand to be sold to the masses or they might choose to sell it under their own brand, produced indegeniously by a few well paid workers in limited quantities at a much higher price for a much more affluent crowd. Standardization has allowed things, especially cheap things to be mass produced and services to be streamlined. And the labour which works to make those materials and offer those services such as , factory workers, software developers, etc find it much harder to find a personal connection with the job they do. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the variety of jobs we can do has exponentially increased but the way we can do them has become increasingly standardized.
Really interesting aspect of industry that I saw today. Thank you TSOL! You guys are really changing our perspectives into a softer more thoughtful ones. 😄
If everyone stamped what they touched in their work life, everything we used and owned would be riddled with weird, expensive vanity markings. Hobbies exist for a good reason. Just look at SoundCloud, or any of the countless art circles on the internet. We've never before been able to create, collaborate, and share on the scale that we do today. Sure our nine-to-five jobs might not be super artisan, but they provide for us to explore our other, more creative interests without the need to conform our products of passions to whatever's most profitable.
hmm. Love your stuff, but not sure I agree with the premise here. One angle is that in the far past, labor was super cheap so those creatives toiled for practically nothing - as most of them do today. I challenge the idea that most of us want creative work. I work at big corp, and most people don't demonstrate any creativity I can detect or any desire to have any - kind of like the orignal Mac advert. I'd argue that the average worker values predictability far more than creativity. I also have quite a lot of freedom to express my ideas. I think that creativity is not the definition of the work output but how each worker approaches it, even if the ultimate outputs standardized and repeatable. As a business person or engineer or any technical field, the creativity comes in the conceptualization, design, definition, process definition, marketing, sales and execution. Stamping out the widgets is just the last step in the creative process and at the bottom of that economic ladder its not very creative but there's a lot more than factory jobs out there.
If you are creative and are in need of a creative job, just use your creativity to create a creative job and stop blaming capitalism for your boredom. Creativity is the capacity of doing things that are novel and useful. Your ideas are of course not novel if someone has already put them into practice in society. Capitalism allows those ideas to be shared better than any other system. How come you say capitalism is the cause of a lack of creative jobs? There are little creative jobs. There are little creative people. The fact that it is hard to monetise creativity is universal and by no means unique to capitalism. Capitalism is among the biggest achievements of the human kind. I am infinitely grateful to be born at the dawn of the 21st century in 2002 and not a few decades earlier in Russia or Poland or Hungary or Slovakia etc. or before industrialization. Today is not only the best time to live in, it is also the best time to be creative!
people see the people that are successes. when they play a game and hear how so and so pulled their life together and put together the game and it's a massive success, they think I can do that too. artstation got a blog where they talk about people who are now making a living from their website, where before they were not. but I always wonder about the people who do not. Who slips through the cracks? How many exactly? I read recently on someone's blog about how as an artist they feel they have to keep upping their skills higher than ever and feeling it does not pay as much for that. and at the same time others say they are succeeding. As someone who is trying to be an artist, working on skills, but still not there (the ladder is very high), I don't have a perspective that I can really see what the actual struggle is. It ends up just feeling like some percentage skill, and some luck. No idea how much though. And I feel others are also unsure on the exact numbers. We see a lot make it and a lot don't. I heard a very depressing figure that for every 15 students getting this college degree in this creative field, only 1 actually will go on to get a high end job. And that is for college students, not those without those resources?! So yeah, and yet everyone around still continues to sound optimistic. It's very messed up, for sure. I do wish we lived in a time where much more people made gargoyles for a living.
The way art is used for provocation if not outright rebelliousness if not 'channeled' into a meaningful commentary like what an activist would try to do... '_' does anyone else think that would be at odds to creative jobs becoming feasibly prevalent?..I mean what would there be 'left to rage at' if the world has apparently gotten to a state where it can accomodate such a field as a common sort of 'work'/employment?.
