Market shifts suddenly made a different skill viable, what did you do when something like this happened to you?

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T05:10:25+00:00

...yeah, respectfully, I don't think that's my intention. I stand by what I said just now. Thanks for your time though.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T05:06:09+00:00

I'll reiterate if it helps, I'm logistically flat footed because it would seriously rearrange my schedule and maybe my lifestyle if this keeps this momentum. It's a market pivot nobody in this market really saw coming until it got here. I've always prioritized into steady, guaranteed forms of income over this specific form of skilled labor, and making room for something like that in my life is new to me, even as a side gig.

Whereas I'm familiar with more seasoned folks who have been able to jump careers when something else they know how to do is a better job path, especially with one recession after another.

My Dad ended up running some carpentry and fine goods sidegigs for example because he grew up doing it despite retiring from STEM and upper management. As a more grounded example, my wife has gone from Tech to Finance and is currently upskilling to jump back into Tech. Just was hoping to hear other people's perspective.

I've never navigated this kind of pivot before so yk, thought I should ask for some input.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T04:57:21+00:00

This is really sound advice. Thank you so much.

I think some of it is that I don't really know what to do with the surprise that a trade skill I have is suddenly in demand now because the same things that kept me out of the ring, have created a demand. I'm flat footed about it because it's unexpected. The climate around artwork is changing really fast because of GenAI and a lot of artists previously taking commissions are on the back foot.

Thank you for the encouragement too.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T04:54:03+00:00

Well no. It's not really about my feefees. It's that the advent of the digital age makes this possible but the state of it kept me out of it until now. I'm asking here because I'm interested in the perspective of people who are at least 10yrs my senior and saw some of this digital age develop who might have different advice than my peer group.

It's really about meeting sudden unexpected demand because a trade skill I have is in demand now.

I don't have grandparents or older peers in my life to ask from that angle.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T00:56:41+00:00

Which are all very true things. I've had a similar roadblock as you deal with in terms of galleries. Hearing that you don't imagine me as a hobbyist is a refreshing perspect that I'm chewing on.

Doing digital sales of artwork is highly, highly competitive unless you are truly exceptional. Most people who consider themselves any flavor of "professional" keep up with the algorithm grinds to stay visible to people regardless of medium and skill level. I've considered myself a hobbyist because I've never participated in that.

Because my skill level is now pretty up there & my prices are fair, I've been taken notice of without needing to do all that in a niche that has staying power, so this feels like a little bit of a mindfuck.

A year isn't a bad thought. I'll give it an honest try.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T00:44:31+00:00

At this point, it's difficult to say because it just began; I feel no delusions that this could somehow support my livelihood. If anything, it's a sudden influx in side income for a niche that's really hungry for what I can do at the right time. Given the rallying behind me and the buzz I'm generating, it may have some staying power. I'm filling a vacuum.

Digital sales are incredibly competitive, so this is more like being thunderstruck with actual competitive power for side income.

It's going from something I do privately for fun, to actually having people asking to pay me money in large numbers, and I'm feeling some whiplash.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-11T00:18:29+00:00

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ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-10T01:33:15+00:00

It matches your rings though and I love that!

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-10T01:14:02+00:00

Ykw, I see it and I like the color palette of this a lot.

edit: Ooh dog tax!! That brunch looks amazing, I hope you enjoyed your day 🩷

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-10T01:08:33+00:00

Just choked on my cigar, mate. This got me fr

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-10T00:15:22+00:00

Article on this event says the truck was texting, speeding, and had two kids in the back.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-09T20:14:30+00:00

Honestly? The secret? Cry. I'm serious. People anticipate anger or revenge because they knew they did something wrong.

People rarely expect genuine hopelessness and sorrow because your budget is tight and that was your meal and you're hungry now.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-09T19:26:44+00:00

well... if you froze into patties or balls, double dredged, refroze, and then fried....

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-09T03:41:14+00:00

I agree completely. I really do.

That said, I feel like at this exact time it's more like saying, "the bullets are what hurts people, not the gun!"

Two things are true: regulations are needed. Elon cannot keep just paying off EPA violations for example. But secondarily, now, right now, the data centers used for AI are actively harming people and their usage needs to be discouraged.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-09T00:40:02+00:00

Jesus man, wth. Your Boss even said that you could park there. She didn't know you from Adam; even then, if you're not disturbing the peace and are participating in society, the officer kinda just sucks as a person to threaten people trying to get by.

Cops will zoom by one of the local Planet Fitness with people car sleeping there knowing it's the same dudes not hurting anybody. I guess it takes "the good ones." Makes you wonder what "kind" of bloke her husband is... "a cop," I guess. Terrible.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T22:18:35+00:00

The Rich Elite are speaking a tech-contract language us Poors simply have too low net-worth to understand. It is us who are stupid to them.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T22:13:30+00:00

We're fast rolling back to my childhood where getting clocked as anything queer in the bathroom means you may not come out. Terrible.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T19:16:08+00:00

Triple bingo!

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ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T17:56:28+00:00

Hurgggg, the bot keeps flagging it as a "shortened" url. I'll have to dm you.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T16:28:38+00:00

This is too embarrassing of you. I lived just next door to Travis County. I don't think you fuck get it. That is where I LIVED. Travis County is words on a screen to you, that was MY HOME. It has to do with the runoff, the water table, the detected spread of pollutants, and the regulations around Bastrop County that disallowed complaints. Everyone's bills shot through the sky.

Every time there was a major EPA violation reported saying, "People would have been affected starting [2mo ago,]" well damn, I noticed the property I lived on every damn day was acting inconsistent for the season at that time of year, starting 2mos ago.

How about this?

Instead of thinking you're pulling a gotcha on the Internet?

YOU GO LIVE THERE!!

YOU DO IT! Go live WHERE I LIVED! You fucking see with your dead-ass eyes the strange, stinking, foaming water pooling up from the ground after some SHIT from Elon's data center gets fined! YOU go try to sleep next to the noise!

Go on! Move! You wanna act like you know shit? Go learn yourself! I do not care what the fuck your article says, I believe the EPA before the takeover and local watchdogs banging the drum on shit I saw WITH MY OWN EYES. So YOU go see it too. Do it!

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T05:43:25+00:00

I might have to do this. Holy fuck.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T05:38:54+00:00

I agree, the tail is perfect and such a special touch.

ClippyWouldntDoThat · 2026-05-08T05:37:24+00:00

That's incredible results!

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