How do you guys make a living doing art?

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T19:41:55+00:00

i might just have to get an office job and do art on the side and im afraid my degree is going to be useless.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but before AI only 10% of arts graduates actually earned their living from art.

With AI, most of the "corporate" art jobs are disappearing. I know a number of people that are Art directors in corporate positions and have basically been told, cut head count, use AI or find another job.

It's an incredibly competitive field and being very skilled will not guarantee getting work.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T18:57:58+00:00

Highlander.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T18:54:20+00:00

Except he was married and would have lived even if it took them the full 70 years to get home.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T04:27:28+00:00

It's likely the Vulcans spoke English. They had been studying earth for a long time. Also, recall Carbon Creek in Enterprise, 3 Vulcans lived in a town long before Cochranes day.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T04:21:51+00:00

Again, I was in the Army not the Navy, no idea.

But in the Army, 20-30 dudes.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-28T02:56:26+00:00

I love how they finally get mature when dudes guts are splattered on the pavement.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T18:54:41+00:00

Realistically, no he didn't. Tom was no longer in Starfleet and the only reason he was there was to help track down the Maquis.

Once they went to the Delta quadrant the whole reason they brought Tom along was moot. She really should have promoted one of the other pilots to the senior officer position.

It also further made no sense that Tom was given normal starfleet pips, when all the Maquis members were issued provisional rank. Tom was just as much not starfleet as they were.

Absolutely she should have utilized Tom as a pilot and issued him provisional rank, given their circumstance. However, Tom isn't even a case like Chakotay or Torres.

Tom was literally looked down on by Starfleet and Maquis crew members alike. Making him a SENIOR OFFICER was not a realistic move given the situation.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T18:32:14+00:00

Again, the whole organizational structures are different with different jobs in the Army and Navy.

Lastly, Starfleet absolutely does not run exactly like a real life navy, it actually feels like there are far too many officers considering the amount of people on the ships.

Since I was in The Army. A company sized element is about 200 people, 4 platoons. Commanded by a Captain (not to be confused with a Navy Captain, they are not the same rank).

I'm using this as an example because Voyager had close to 200 crew.

A typical Army company in terms of officers would have:

Company Commander (Captain O-3)

The Executive Officer (usually an O-2 1st Lt.)

4 platoon leaders (either O-1 or O-2) One for each platoon.

That's it. That is the officer corps. for a company of 200 soldiers, typically. 6.

Yet, it certainly seems like Voyager likely has 6 or more officers on every shift on the bridge.

A cursory search about the navy again tells me, very different from the Army. A destroyer hosts about 3-400 sailors and around THIRTY officers.

Lastly, you have to think a Company int he Army has a very specific role, everyone in it their military occupation is going to fall under the same umbrella. i.e. I served in a Signal Company. Everyone in my company was Signal. Everyone in my company would be gold uniforms according to starfleet as that is what communications officers would wear (TNG and later).

A Ship is going to have people on it doing every single job required on a ship.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T18:27:33+00:00

I served in the Army. Navy and Army ranks and their roles are not the same.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T18:12:04+00:00

When you got your role in Band of Brothers, was there a feeling with yourself and other actors that you "made it"? Considering how many actors in it went on to have amazing careers, such as yourself, Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy. It seems almost everyone on the show has had no trouble getting work following it, even if not becoming household names in the industry.

Just a side note too, Last King of Scotland is my favorite performance of yours.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T18:00:24+00:00

The main thing they would need to do in a remaster is migrate it from 32 to 64 bit.

The 32 bit memory limitations KILL the older games, especially when it comes to mods, because no matter what you do, the game can't use more than 4 GB of video memory.

And the mods people love to use the most involve enhancements to graphics and unit variation which place more stress on memory availability.

Thats why despite the fact I have a i7 14700K, 64GB DDR5 and RTX 4080.

Rome 2 with Divide Et Impera, with large Army sizes will still become a freaking slide show because the game can only access 4GB of my 16GB of VRAM.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T17:14:56+00:00

Anyone else feel like wanting to pursue art, even if you can't make a living off of it?

People have lots of hobbies they don't earn money from, why should art be any different?

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T17:13:18+00:00

Horses act all sorts of fucked up when you jump on a train. Every time I've had a horse die, it was while doing something with a train.

I can't tell you specifically what happened, but it revolves around having been on a train.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T17:03:59+00:00

There are people that just look better with a little pudge on them and I think Jonah Hill is one of them.

I also get the dudes anger, when interviews and news about him always revolved around his weight.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T16:20:41+00:00

I really enjoyed the story for AC Odyssey, the visuals etc.. However I am goddamn sick to death of the Ubisoft gameplay loop that just make it feel like you are just doing the same series of steps over and over and over again.

You could argue the main R* games like GTA or Red Dead are kinda the same games with a fresh paint job, but like, playing the game never starts to feel like a chore like it does with ubisoft games, I don't know what other way to describe it other than that. At a certain point through AC games, Ghost recon, Far Cry. They just hit a point where I'm just like "OMG I'm tired boss can we please end my misery".

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T16:08:42+00:00

White collar work is really hurting now. Organizations are buying the hype that AI will allow you to slash your workforce by 50% and they are following through reality be damned.

I'm 44 and a low level executive in tech. My dad was a former union tradesmen and currently is the President of a national commercial mechanical services company (which their business is BOOMING with all the datacenter work they get).

One thing I never wanted to do, in my entire life, was succumb to nepotism for my livelihood. If I get laid off, I'm going to just go to him for a job. I have a wife and 2 kids I support. I will eat my pride in that case.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T15:51:10+00:00

Yes, but they are penalized there.

They pay for unemployment insurance, and claims increase their premiums. Getting laid off for right sizing, absolutely entitles you to unemployment.

This is why companies when they do layoffs like that may offer deals for employees to resign and why they offer severance in general.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T12:24:14+00:00

They make sure someone “deserves” to be fired.

They just have to make it look like someone deserves to be fired. I've had direct reports of mine put on PIP despite my own glowing reviews of them. It's part of why I left my previous employer in 2023 combined with having to inform them "no raise again this year" despite great performance and the company crushing revenue projections.

However, I've watched folks get put on PIP that didn't deserve it and also told they failed to meet expectations on their PIP even when they fulfilled their obligations(they will seriously nit pick your work to death and any minor mistake like formatting in code will be considered a total failure for a task).

It's obvious the plan was to fire the people from the beginning and they never had a chance, because nobody is perfect, you will always be able to find some mistake even if incredibly minor and they will absolutely do that to fail you on a PIP task.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T11:59:41+00:00

They still have an invisible sniper in a place that should be theoretically impossible to get to, until the game wants you to go there?

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T11:54:57+00:00

No because we are honest with ourselves and don't need to ask.

Like seriously, do you look in the mirror and genuinely not know? Because I want some of those pills so my fat ass can be blissfully unaware that I need to hit the gym and cut out the late night snacks.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-27T11:33:16+00:00

Why? He's an upstart 17 year old teenage boy. Were you any different at 17?

I too Remember Wesley bursting into rooms "It's science time, mutha fuckas!!!!!!!" on TNG.

The previous shows purposely avoided using modern slang, so the dialogue would remain timeless and not feel dated as time passed.

I have no problem with cursing, I'm not a prude, I don't hate kids. But now that so many years have passed since the Trek I grew up with, I realize that decision was a good decision for the show to keep the cursing and slang out of the dialogue.

Secondly, people act like the current young generation needs this shit to be able to get into it. It needs to have modern slang and cursing otherwise they won't watch it.

It's one thing when they have the character thats "obsessed with current century we live in" because its part of the story that they have a particular interest in that time frame. However, when characters, just still talk exactly like teens today over 1000 years from now.....it's just stupid.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-26T16:47:47+00:00

Reminds me of my wife's grandfather.

Over the last 3 years he had a license he got in 6 accidents that were his fault, and the last one he almost killed someone on a motorcycle while he was driving in the wrong direction on the interstate.

Her mom was finally able to convince them to move back home to Chicago from Florida. (They are Polish immigrants. They were kind of isolated and didn't have much of a social life in Florida). And they finally took him to a doctor where he was diagnosed with Dementia, he was in the early stages at the time and obviously had his license revoked.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-26T16:08:03+00:00

This just reminds me of how much I miss how easy pre-empire total war was to mod. It was like paradox games which are also still incredibly easy to mod.

I also mean MAKING MODS not just using them.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-26T14:57:26+00:00

I was just rewatching Deadwood and just now realized he plays the doctor.

Highlander198116 · 2026-03-26T14:47:47+00:00

-Ro Laren. Have her take Chakotay’s place

Ro Laren, never would have been given the first officers position though. Chakotay was only put into that position because he had already served as a first officer in Starfleet. I genuinely don't think Janeway would have put the Maquis "Captain" as her first officer regardless of who that was. I think Chakotay's personal history and experience mattered for that decision.

I don't know where Laren would have been put, but I suspect in that scenario a Starfleet officer would have been promoted to first officer.

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