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Paying bills is stupid. Cleaning house is boring. Going to work EVERY day is stupid. Following rules is stupid. Doing what you're told is stupid. etc etc etc.

Bwahahaha - your kid is screwed. The world is full of arbitrary and down right stupid rules (assuming he ever gets a job, he'll love the tax codes that apply to him, but not to rich people or corporations).

You need to straighten out his young punk ass - and do it now.

Before you say "but what about his mad art/music skillz", I'm afraid I'd need an outside expert to qualify those before I believe they exist. I put my 8 year old daughter's artwork on my office wall and tell her it's beautiful - lucky (for her and me) shes a whiz at science and will get a real job later in life.

No one succeeds in life that can't even manage to get a measly high school degree from a "see spot run" public school.

You are the parent - NOT the twelve year old - what part of that escapes you?

Maybe it's time for private school, where the whole "leave no moron behind" concept doesn't exist. Obviously you and the kids present school system have already failed. Maybe it's not too late for the kid.




I really hope your daughter causes you massive problems when she goes through puberty and rebels. You sir, are an ass.


art is not a real job?


For a lot of artists, unfortunately it's not. They need to have a job to support their art habit/hobby.


Perhaps that is because they focused too much on so-called "real" work and never developed their art enough to make a living. Perhaps they need so much money because they went to a university to learn what is free at any library.


Some of the most celebrated artists in history barely made enough to pay for their rent and were utterly unappreciated in their time.[1]

More recent examples abound in the music industry, in which you can be wildly successful, yet make less than what amounts to minimum wage.[2]

The importance of art to understanding human condition cannot be understated. Yet, for whatever reason, societies by and large does not reward the people who produce it financially. There's certainly a lot wrong with our education system, but blaming it for the starving artist syndrome is unfair.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_gogh

[2] http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17


Or no one is willing to pay enough for their skills.


There's the problem. You're focused on selling skills, rather than works. Selling your labor is going to ensure you stay a wage slave.


Yet your user name contains the words 'for hire'. ;)




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