You know what's hard? Trying to be a Sneaker Designer Good enough to keep your current job and be able to push designs and ideas. Trying to be a a comic artist that pushes their style and trying to make that the main form of making a living. Then trying to do all of that while being a responsible adult.... you know paying bill, keeping your living space clean, be social, and most of all Maintain a loving relationship with your girlfriend.

Sometimes it seems like it'd be easier to have no talent and work a "normal" job with "normal" hobbies. Like reading a newspaper or books... and just being middle of the road or average. Or even just trying hard enough... bleh then I won't be who I am.

It's like being Spider-Man.... Not Batman or any other superhero.... or maybe even like Mr. Fantastic. Keeping a day job to keep on the lights Spider-man is a photographer(Mr. Fantastic is a scientist). Having their "hobby" being a super-Hero, then being Married or having a girlfriend. It's a lot. It's so hard to keep everything at 100% because one thing suffers or another thing does. It can't be helped. If you focus too much on the job, your relationship and talent gets hurt. If you focus on the Relationship too much your talent can go to crap, and if you focus on the talent, you can lose your job and the relationship. It's a struggle all artists who are in relationships and maintain a day job have to deal with... much like being in School, trying to have a job and then a girlfriend.

You really don't try to neglect one thing or the other. and keeping everything at a perfect balance makes you only a jack of all trades... which in those cases isn't that great but not bad either.. just in the middle. You won't be noted for being a great artist/student/worker/lover/fighter/athlete/band member. Sometimes I wonder how those people do it.

Heh, my eternal struggle.

On ward!