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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net: New Year's resolutions
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
New Year's resolutions
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, January 07, 2006
at 7:41 PM (Pacific)
Those sound like good resolutions.
I tend to make only one NY's resolution per year but I do tend to keep whatever it is. Last year...my daughter was still in kindergarten while my son was in the regular grades. K and the other grades do not start at the same time, much less finish at the same time; K is only three hours per day.
So unless you put your kindergartener in daycare, you're stuck coming and going and coming and going and coming and going, all day...it's insane.
I really wanted a regular job last year. It's hard to explain if you've never been through it. What people think of as a daily grind, is at least a daily grind...it's not this thing of constantly constantly working, seven days a week.
In some few ways it is good. I've never regretted staying home to take care of the kids although current American society, at least around here, is hostile toward that. They call it "not working."
When I was growing up...during the "nice" face of capitalism :D ...motherhood was sacred. No one would dare accuse you of not working because you stayed home to raise your kids.
And it has occurred to me, that the skill set I learned growing up...the housework stuff, cooking, baking, cleaning, mending, yadda yadda...is sort of like being a typesetter. Or some other profession that became outmoded. I can accept that it is outmoded.
In fact I highly support a technological solution, rather than a caste-based solution, to "who is going to do the housework." Everything else has a technological solution to it. Why simply create another caste to do menial work?
Enough of the blather...so that year I wanted to work more conventionally, and I did, actually it coincided with the beginning of the school year.
This year I would, ah, like to work some more.
I'm really into the job I have now...
So for me it's more work, more money.
Now...here is how I would think about your painting resolution. It'll no doubt sound like the capitalistic American that I am :) , here goes...
You can think in terms of selling your paintings. Not right away...you would want to practice...figure out what you can produce. But ultimately you will want to sell your stuff. You can sell it on Ebay or otherwise on the Net.
That is how I think of my beading or jewelry making. Right now I'm in the experimental phase. I'm producing pieces slowly and wearing them.
If a piece becomes something I somehow never reach for, I'll dismantle it...and make a new one.
Most days I don't have time to do anything jewelry wise unless I really make the time for it. But that's okay. I'll go for days without producing anything but it's always in the back of my mind, what I'll make next.
There is some up front investment in your project but it shouldn't be that much. Since you are using raw materials, the cost of what you do is mainly in the labor, which is specialized.
 
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