Reply To: Backhoe Contribution – adrian2301 – Chassis/Stabilizer/Fenders and the Engine. And the hydraulics for the swing frame.

@theluthier  Yes to networking, it’s the only thing that has ever worked for me and I didn’t even seek it out. When I was learning Blender on CG Cookie lots of years ago, a friend convinced me to do some work since see had seen my progress and he was sure I could do that job. I freaked out, I told him no, that’s a bad idea, I don’t know if I could do it for real, I’m just having fun playing around with the software, but he pressed on and convinced me to do the job. It was some archviz of a hospital that was being constructed. After that was done, that job led directly to another, those people referred to me to other people, then some other friend saw the freelance work I had done and offered me other freelance work and those people referred to me to other people and so on and so forth. 

It was just a snow ball effect, and each and every one of those jobs were a nervous freakout, but saying yes to all of that when my brain kept saying no, allowed me to fully pay my house loan with the bank, debt free, and freelance gigs was at least 55% of the reason I was able to do that. Also at the beginning I almost didn’t learn Blender, because there wasn’t any good tutorials out there, explanations were so bad in sites like Lynda and in the beginning when the learning curve is the hardest it’s easy to just loose motivation, so I was like meh. But then I found CG Cookie and my interest was rekindled when I saw Jonathan Williamson and Kent’s tutorials, so I was like uhumm, here it is, now I’m beginning to learn something. 

Anyways, since every single freelance work I’ve ever taken I have endured it more than enjoy it, I’ve often wonder if maybe is it that I don’t like this work, I mean I do it, the whole 3D pipeline is so much fun when I’m doing stuff for myself, but when it comes to actual work, I’ve never seen people describe the work as something to do because it’s work and you get payed and you need to make a living, you know the normal stuff….but people talk about the work as god sent, oh my god I love this! my dream job! you have to work work work 24/7, I give my soul to the studio, here studio! take my life!, I’m sooo passionate, I’m not being exploited because I love it. So I’m always left wondering if people do that only on social media because that’s what social media does, you sell you life as amazing but no one ever sees your behind the scenes.

So is it me? Does everyone genuinely enjoys it or are people really just pompous on social media? I’ve worked on a couple of movies and TV shows here and they were the worst experiences ever. Production people are scumbags, jesus christ, every single time everyone’s ego was extremely bloated and the pressure is enormous one everyone, they exploit you to unnecessary lengths, and yet you put on YouTube and I see everyone that works on “The Industry” telling similar tales but they justify it, they say is the way it is and they love it and they wouldn’t have it any other way, that you are just lazy if you don’t tolerate how the job is. I don’t get it, how are they not protesting? Most people must be wearing themselves out to such unhealthy lengths. Yet I’m going to try it out, I’ll look for a job and see what happens. I hope the experience will be ok because it would be really bad to find out late in life that what you do for a living isn’t what you actually like. But I guess that happens to like 90% of the world population.