The Artist’s Way

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Dublin city centre

Millennial Artist With A Masters Degree Attempts
To Enter The Workforce And/Or Buy A House

Starter pack:
A) Rich parents (if you cannot attain this, skip to part F).

Other options:
B) Pay more money to train better so you aren’t worthless.

C) Educate those around you to appreciate the necessity of art. Please note: you may lose friends and family who (let’s face it) have real jobs, that paid for the little Arts Council funded thing you did, that one time.

D) Create something so intoxicatingly commercially brilliant that it impresses those you lost in part C but ironically only just covers what you paid for part B.

E) You haven’t gotten this far and still thought I’d have any advice for the ‘’buy a house’’ bit, did you? Oh honey, refer to part A.

F) Kill yourself.

beam

beam is a 26 year old woman from Galway. A new poet and a recent MA graduate, beam is working on her first collection after being published on Spilling Hot Cocoa Over Martin Amis. Recent work includes: ‘surviving the pandemic and several disappointing sourdough loaves’. You can find more of her poetry @personalbeam on instagram.

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14 thoughts on “The Artist’s Way

  1. Rob_G

    While I am loathe to use such a term, a 26 year-old moaning that the rest of the world has not recognised their artistic genius is peak-snowflake.

    F) Kill yourself.
    Horrible sentiment, even in jest or irony.

    1. Redundant Proofreaders Society

      +1
      Not cool.
      Meanwhile, many of the Z-Generation have already graduated, working hard and saving like mad for a deposit. They may not agree with the difficult challenges imposed by State on their property ladder ambitions but they would rather opt in than out. They certainly don’t have time for sourdough starters.

      1. goldenbrown

        “they may not agree with the difficult challenges imposed by State on their property ladder ambitions but they would rather opt in than out“

        perhaps that depends on your demographic, my own experience is bitterness and the 1st plane outa here soon as C19 is in the rearview..taking any accumulated earnings with them

        1. Redundant Proofreaders Society

          Understood. Having emigrated twice to make money, if you plan to return to the Motherland one day (any day), it makes sense to get into the system before you leave. Read from that what you can ;)

    1. Darren

      When we think about what art is there is place in us that dies. Then when we don’t think about it that place opens back out like a blooming blossoming bud of hope and transgression. Do we dare to dream. We do. We do. Houses have doors and windows. We have hope. The poet’s main thrust here is that this hope is not valued. The sad thing is that even in a hopeless world, art is a reduction. A house without windows or doors is just a box though. The pallor of the poet’s words is borne of an attempt to describe hopelessness to the well informed but no less inspired. For what it’s worth I plus one that.

  2. John F

    I don’t mean to sound harsh, but let’s analyse the article.
    “B) Pay more money to train better so you aren’t worthless”
    what you mean to say that your Master of arts degree, which likely cost you tens of thousands and years of your life you could have spent doing something else productive is “worthless”. Whose fault is that exactly?
    This was the parts that really annoyed me.
    A) Rich parents (if you cannot attain this, skip to part F)
    ….
    F) Kill yourself.
    I assume this article was mostly meant as humour, except that it wasn’t funny in any way shape or form. There are a lot of people out there really struggling, fiscally, healthwise, et cetera, et cetera and yet they get on with it. They don’t compose poems telling people how hard their lives are. My God, someone in their mid 20s cannot buy a home. Talk about entitled and shortsighted.
    The property price market is cyclical, prices will fall eventually and substantially. You left out option “common sense”. Spend the next few years saving up money and bettering yourself whilst you wait for the market to fall.
    Stop being an entitled fragile snowflake and blaming the rest of the world for the difficult situation you and everyone else finds themselves in.
    I have ranted enough for one day.

      1. John F

        Be specific, exactly how am I being hypocritical?

        “Orban’s cynical Putinesque crusade against gay people”
        wow, you managed to pull not just one but 2 undesirable elected leaders into that statement!………. well undesirable to those that didn’t elect them. But that’s neither here nor there.
        As you pointed out yourself. It has been a couple of weeks. Have you heard much about the whole thing in the media?? Or have Western leadership and the media industrial complex drawn up a new strawman for you to hate.

  3. SoLo

    Find a job that’s not too soul crushing to allow you to pursue your art career until you are established. I mean you still won’t be able to buy a house, that’s up there with owning a yacht these days…

  4. James M.Chimney

    My cat has a better Instagram and more reasoned opinions than this gobshiite.

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