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July 01, 2006
Reinventing Rob - June 06 In Review
Well, if I were to sum up June in one word, it would be either 'gauntlet' or 'crucible'. Hell of a month. Literally. Sixteen days straight of working the day job, averaging sixty hours a week with no lunchbreaks. Having my heart freak the fuck out on me. Having my stupid internet stop stupid working. All sorts of stupid office politics coming up at the day job, with me fighting hard to stay out of them (and succeeding!). All sorts of stupid politics coming up with one of my collaborators, which I still haven't addressed with that party, and which I'm debating is even worth my time (it's probably not).
But, see, the Reinventing Rob Plan for 2006 is all about sticking to my path and seeing it through to the end. Too often in my past I've just given up on things when they got too tough and walked away, and this month it would have been really easy to just walk away from a lot of my obstacles. I could have changed my position at work. I could have decided to stop trying to pursue two careers simultaneously. I could have recused myself from the project with the troublesome collaborator. But, for the most part, I just continued down my path and its paying off. My employees respect me even more now. I sold another painting. I did what I feel to be some really good illustrations and paintings in June. I got to draw a fucking SUPERMAN comic. Yeah, I'm doing alright, I guess.
Another month down, half the year down(!), and today I'm twenty six, so twenty six years down. And I'm just getting started.
Posted by Schamberger at July 1, 2006 04:54 PM