<story><title>About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years</title><url>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-06/animator-dorm-project-about-90-percent-of-animators-quit-their-jobs-within-3-years/.175908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadcmulligan</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like all those jobs - game developer, film jobs, graphic artist, artist, musician - too many young people want to do it and there&amp;#x27;s a lot of money if you&amp;#x27;re successful so it attracts sharks up the top who keep all the money. Just don&amp;#x27;t is my advice, unless you have a trust fund, which a large number of those successful have, you can weather out the early years then until you make a name for yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m rather fond of the story of the Pulitzer prizewinning poet Wallace Stevens, who worked as an insurance attorney by day, and did his writing during his free time. He considered his unexciting day job to be something that enabled him to do his writing, by giving his life a stable foundation that left plenty of mental resources remaining for doing what he loved.&lt;p&gt;Some choice quotes on the subject:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I&amp;#x27;ve lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years</title><url>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-06/animator-dorm-project-about-90-percent-of-animators-quit-their-jobs-within-3-years/.175908</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chadcmulligan</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like all those jobs - game developer, film jobs, graphic artist, artist, musician - too many young people want to do it and there&amp;#x27;s a lot of money if you&amp;#x27;re successful so it attracts sharks up the top who keep all the money. Just don&amp;#x27;t is my advice, unless you have a trust fund, which a large number of those successful have, you can weather out the early years then until you make a name for yourself.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SilverRed</author><text>Yep, all the fun jobs have horrible work environments because people stick to it even if the job sucks. I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of the boring jobs. If its not working out, you just leave and go somewhere else so employers have to compete by making the job more attractive in other ways.&lt;p&gt;There is even a wiki page for this concept &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Compensating_differential&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Compensating_differential&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>