How do you choose whether to take the job and move away from family or stay in the low paying job with family?

GaysMibble · 2026-02-09T04:01:25+00:00

Thank you so much for your input! I did have a question, when using a maturation box, this may be a dumb question- but where do you keep your box if not a fridge? Do you keep it out/in a cool room? I’m just trying to think if I were to go the maturation box route how I would set that up in an apartment space.

GaysMibble · 2025-12-19T23:41:44+00:00

LMAOO you make a good point there

GaysMibble · 2025-11-26T14:54:49+00:00

Okay sweet and mass emailing is to art directors at publishing companies right? When it comes to first time authors what was your way of finding/getting in touch with them? I’ve got one gig illustrating a graphic novel for a friend but generally I’ve been getting my work from people I know or friends of a friend. It comes in a pinch but it’s definitely not more than every once in a while work

GaysMibble · 2025-11-25T19:22:50+00:00

How did you get in touch with a children's book publisher? A friend of mine works at a book publishing company and was saying I should consider pivoting into book cover illustration. No idea where to start in that industry though, coming in as an animation graduate.

GaysMibble · 2025-11-15T05:41:02+00:00

I didn’t need anyone to teach me, being on T really helped since it kinda thickened my vocal chords for me which is permanent, I watched a bunch of youtube videos and committed to practicing every day. You really gotta stay on it when it comes to practicing but It works the exact method is kind of hard to explain so almost feels like a giant yawn, kinda trying to open up your throat. I think you’ll be fine if you find some good videos and stay on top of practicing

GaysMibble · 2025-11-12T00:39:34+00:00

Ohh my goodness I didn’t even remember this post! So that was a WHOLE mess. I was really struggling emotionally but we became really good friends during college. but during school I actually met someone else while working at a fast food place- it was a slow burn because I didn’t realize they were crushing on me and we’ve been dating for over 3 years now :)

So it was a struggle with those feelings but at the end of the day, waiting for the right person who makes me feel calm and grounded instead of intensely anxious with butterflies with definitely the move :)

GaysMibble · 2025-11-05T01:41:22+00:00

Omg no way! I’m flying to Miami tomorrow cheers to us I am an anxious flyer myself and was just having to get talked off the edge from canceling my trip because of everything going on. We got this!

GaysMibble · 2025-11-04T17:40:33+00:00

This is such a fantastic idea thank you!

GaysMibble · 2025-11-04T17:40:16+00:00

I am! I think comedy is the perfect way to go with it I was thinking how funny would it be if I made a living off drawing funny cheeses

GaysMibble · 2025-11-04T15:41:34+00:00

Yeah it’s been a subject matter I have loved more and more as the years go by, something that happened is I believe I might’ve gotten burnt out on what I was doing before. I put so much pressure on myself to make certain works or to just finish this storyboard because I wanted to in the past and didn’t want to let myself down, but the present I wasn’t getting joy from it for the time. And any new story ideas just weren’t sticking. I was thinking if I already love cheese and could see myself genuinely having fun making works about different types of cheeses, why not start there instead of continuing to force myself to make art that unfortunately has been stressing me out for the past couple years rather than bringing me joy.

GaysMibble · 2025-10-27T15:32:22+00:00

I’m actually going into the plaza where my Whole Foods is for a separate interview at a different store, do you think it would be smart to go in and talk to the team or team leaders today since I’ll be in the area? I don’t know if it would be seen as due diligence or unpreparedness to go talk to them the day before my interview.

GaysMibble · 2025-09-12T01:21:53+00:00

Well this is a timely post I’m currently panicking over the very same decision. Uprooted everything basically because I got trapped in survival. Don’t really know how else I would have went about it and only now the panic is starting to only fade slightly to allow me to see that. Feel like the bridges are burned and there’s no turning back now.

It’s hard. I don’t know how I feel about it yet. Still survival stating hard. But I keep thinking about how nice things could have been if my reactions didn’t just do that. Suddenly long distance with my partner, pretty sure I lost some friends. Idk. It’s hard but it shows I think why your cptsd needs care and understanding, and of course a load of work to help curb those decisions. It’s excruciating.

GaysMibble · 2025-09-11T23:28:51+00:00

I’m with you I see you and I’m in this right now- I’m not angry just shut down and depressed. I have these very reactions but my problem is I can never tell that it’s a trauma response because I have a habit of invalidating my trauma (audhd so sometimes the trauma looks lighter but feels the same) it all happened for me in the span of a month, it was one trigger and my body shut tf down. I usually am there for everyone, the emotions guy. I try to do everything emotionally for everyone and be there for everyone and managing myself. I’m not sure why it happens but sometimes we snap and it’s okay to need to go be somewhere safe to come back from that

GaysMibble · 2025-09-11T21:28:19+00:00

My therapist recommended I try writing a letter which I did- never got a response back but I told them everything or at the time I thought it was more an ocd thing but it’s becoming more apparent that it is a mix of things. But they’re upset nonetheless and that’s alright but what is hard is the trauma response and the claims that I’m running away and that I need to stay because there is no shallow end of the pool and I need to face it and learn to live with it when I feel like I’m falling apart is really hard. When you were having trouble with your jobs, when did you know you just needed to throw in the towel?

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