{"id":24597,"date":"2011-12-02T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/dont-give-up-the-day-job-how-artists-make-a\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:00:05","slug":"dont-give-up-the-day-job-how-artists-make-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/dont-give-up-the-day-job-how-artists-make-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t give up the day job &#8211; how artists make a living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2010\/jan\/24\/artists-day-jobs'>Don&#8217;t give up the day job &#8211; how artists make a living<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/13459313393\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026for artists without a lucky early break, rich parents or benefactors, a day job is often the only way to survive. It needn\u2019t mean that fame and fortune aren\u2019t just around the corner: Joy Division\u2019s Ian Curtis worked in an unemployment office until 1979, well after the band had released their debut EP. Van Morrison immortalised his old job as a window cleaner in the 1982 song Cleaning Windows; composer Philip Glass wasn\u2019t able to quit his jobs as a plumber and a taxi-driver until the age of 41.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece of advice <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/tagged\/day+job\">no one wants to hear<\/a>. (Gets a big section in <a href=\"http:\/\/steallikeanartist.com\">chapter 9<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t give up the day job &#8211; how artists make a living austinkleon: \u2026for artists without a lucky early break, rich parents or benefactors, a day job is often the only way to survive. It needn\u2019t mean that fame and fortune aren\u2019t just around the corner: Joy Division\u2019s Ian Curtis worked in an unemployment office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6oJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}