Where Are the Creative Jobs?
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- Many of us want a job that is 'creative', but the reality of the jobs market can seriously challenge our hopes. Why are there not more creative positions? What do we really want when we use this word 'creative'? Using this film to understand the economy in greater depth can help us see our options and understand our pains.
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“For many of us, our strongest and at the same time vaguest desire is to be more creative. And when we think about what it would mean to be creative, we arrive at a dauntingly fixed range of jobs. We might be visually creative: and so identify that we want to be a painter, photographer, film-maker, designer or architect. We might be intellectually creative: and so want to be a novelist, journalist or academic. We might be musically creative: and so want to start a band. Or we might be sensorily creative: and so want to start a restaurant. The problem is that securing any of these jobs is - statistically speaking - almost impossible. We end up blocked, sure of what we want to be, yet also unable to break into our chosen field.”
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You're just pulling most of this out of your bum. Creative jobs are on the rise as automation proliferates.
Creative equals independence, freedom of choice. Spontaneity. Authenticity ? And letting the animal out ! :-D _ i believe we can find creativity in the day to day conversations, in the bedroom, in the everyday choices that we make. enjoying tbe choices that we do have and sometimes don't even imagine. Like pausing for three breaths or walking a little bit slower to enjoy the rain, the sunshine or the sound of the windchime. We need inspirations, like mindful practices and rituals. Or feng shui. Or canevas that open our mind, like the 5 languages of love, or the 7 verbs of Ester Perel, or the 6 hats. or Byron Katie's ideas about the work. I do understand it is difficult for the animal that we are, and the human adult, and our inner child to work all day with no play. I like to live by the famous sentence of the singer Seal '' werent going to to survive unless we get a little crazy '' Ring the bells that still can ring ! There is a crack in everything ! That's how the life gets in ! That's how the light get's in ! (Anthem by L. Cohen)
My idea is there wasn't much garggles carvers neither lol. But i loved your idea. I always loved gargles. This meets my idea of letting the animal out. And teaming with the inner child. This IS what garggles helps me to do ! Maybe we always lacked creative jobs and there always was an aspiration for the divine, the sublime, an irrisistible appeal for the '' extraordinary'', fantasy and freedom. Garggles are a great symbol of something desirable and at the same time not ''civilised'' and '' ugly '' and '' naughty ''. Interesting ! Let's invite garggles and other chimeras into our lives and see what happens ;-)
Freedom escape a chance to express yourself happiness rewarding able to inspire others including yourself to inspire more creativity to be a individual to meet other creative people and a reason to wake up every morning with a smile on your face
Shame this world sucks
Less creative jobs now? SERIOUSLY? Significant part of the digital development market is creative jobs or at least allows for quite a lot of creativity -- video game designers, content creators on platforms like youtube etc. Also there are many fashion designers, movie makers, writers, musicians, graphic designers of all kinds and creative architecture isn't dead either -- there are plently of super creative building popping up all over the world. Of course there is more non-creative work, humanity cannot afford to build every building as a uniquie perl yet, but compared to previous generations there are many more creative jobs and much more room for creativity on the market now. Definitely more than ever before, it's mind-boggling how someone can think otherwise.
The idea of a job is routine-based... A true artist never yearn for a "job", but only projects.
@Marianne Same with doctors, thats why there are tons of tv show based on those kind of jobs
I gave up on a "dream" job years ago. Seems like all jobs on offer these days are mind-numbing, routine, and depressing.
what was the job?
Same
Depends what jobs you’re looking for based on your qualifications
Unfortunately, I think I'm in the same boat. All the jobs I've had so far are pretty boring and one note, but... how else would I get money?
Germany has pushed this soo much that young people like me don't persue these things anymore. Now alot of jobs have no one to use .
The creative jobs are the ones we create. Never can depend on a job to provide you with a creative job.
saw a notification for this video few hours prior watching it - though just this thing then
That's not true. You've missed the point being made in the video
Ppl arent supposed to depend on a job or a paycheck to make their way in life .thats just a parody of a tragedy. ppl need to depend on their skills and talents to have fufilment lest you will become outdated and replaced by a robot .
Best time ever to create...sorry!Forget jobs...what is it , anyway? We are in 2019 man.
You don't need money to create and sell on internet...
@@carlosr192 you need the internet, and you need to eat and you need a computer... so yes you d need money to sell on the internet.
We need art to recover its place in society. Not everything is made to be efficient or profitable!
very much needed everywhere, and perhaps most of all in modern architecture.
That's what the internet is for. Many artists are now having an easier time with their careers because of social media and the ability to be fully independent (not having to rely on the approval of a gallery operator). This is a good thing!!!
I don't see why art can't be beautiful as well as profitable. You can still have creative leeway within a narrower spectrum of in-demand ideas.
art is profitable. look what Hollywood does for the states
I completely agree!!
As a college student graduating soon, this TOTALLY resonated with me in terms of the importance of breaking out of the mold that society wants me to fit into. I was put on this planet for much more than manufactured mediocrity!
I literally got rejected from a fashion stylist position just now. I needed this. Badly.
I'm never going back to an office job. I'm still going to try and get there. I'm not giving up.
Any support in the comments would be greatly appreciated. Feeling a little disheartened as you can imagine x
Zara Clark don’t give up
Don't worry @Zara Clark, no-one has their life figured out. I'd recommend a school of Philosophy called Stoicism to help cope with the inevitable tragedies that seem to be a prerequisite to consiousness and life per se. Cheers! We are all in this together, if you look at the big picture.
@@danidraco thank you Dani. I'm always so nervous to comment on videos in case people are mean. So your kindness is welcome x
@@akshayaa3895 thank you very much, I will check it out! It probably doesn't seem like a big deal to most, I just put my all into it and to get rejected hurts like hell you know?
You gonna slay soon queen. Fuck it up!!!
Don't let this minor issue keep you down!!!!
i agree that art has been largely capitalised, especially in the graphic design sector, but i feel like there has always been like 'paid job vs work you actually want to do'. creative freedom is something that has always been lacking because we sacrifice it for money, or the job we do for money has restrictions. literally having complete creative freedom is really difficult.
True money ruins and corrupts our society and gives us lack of freedom
@@160triedtrue3 yup its unavoidable, thats why self projects and projects just for fun are important
@@MusiicRoolz I agree
The day that you admit to yourself that you have no purpose and that you are an ever-shrinking cog in an ever-growing machine, you'll be able to move on from the fallacy that there's a dream job for everyone. Be creative in your personal life, take up a hobby, or travel the world. Don't waste your time chasing red herrings that ultimately end up being no different than the work you've done previously. Money is a tool, not the be all and end all.
I'm a Creative Director (meaning, I see tons of people in creative roles), and recently while shopping for modern furniture (and chairs) I've found no shortage of options, price ranges, and abounding creativity.
I'd argue that it's easier to make your creative idea come to fruition today, than ever. You can start your own business with an idea, a computer, and very limited funds.
Maybe instead of carving gargoyles, we're designing and developing indie video and VR games, new user experiences & design patterns, and publishing music independently.
We're in a very creative time, with more affordable and accessible tools than ever.
Exactly. In the olden days only the rich 1%(or whatever percentage of ppl were rich or nobles) could commission and enjoy art. They would pay artisans and musicians to play for tgem and design what they want.
Besides theater and chùrch, the general population did not enjoy art such as concerts, literature etc
Except it did increase in 20th century with cities
Yes!
Director, you said it wonderfully
The future in creative jobs belongs to those who are self starters and carve out there own opportunities. Being an artist now also means being a bo$$ 💕🦋
Art is nothing to do with creativity
@@limo9402 what
Easy for you to say I live in a third world country
@@NotEmi. ignore this person their bitter
The school of life. Your daily depression
We might as well just give up now eh! -_-
I was drawn to this video because I thought for once it will be positive. I was wrong. Just hit the unsubscribe button...
Makes sense. School and life are both depressing things.
Hello there Teddy! I am very sorry that you felt depressed by watching this video. And of course you are right. It really is a very depressing subject. But on the other hand, we can't blame the messenger you know... They are stating a fact that there is. When we watch the news in the evening and feel depressed, we don't blame the newsspeaker either. May be you think that they only talk about the problems and they don't offer us solutions here. But indeed they do. If you wish, you can take a look at these videos from this channel:
1. How to find fulfilling work
2. How to find meaningful work
3. Finding your mission
4. Why you still have time to change career
I really hope that they will make you feel better! Have a nice weekend!
@@bolivar1789 You are fantastic, thank you for all your comments.
[creative designer here] I'm confident that the vast majority of people who don't have creative jobs who say they want a job like mine...wouldn't actually like it. You can't not care about what your doing yet, a room full of people who don't know or care about what you have made are often free to tear it apart. Their worse version will be released and when it doesn't work, they will blame you. Most of the work is explaining why you did something a specific way. Like teaching rocket science to children, over and over. Rinse, repeat. Tbf, it's not all bad that said, I don't see a vast untapped well of creativity in the managers, accountants et al I meet. I see people playing 'grass is greener' game. They want the idea of a creative job maybe, but they don't want what I have: it's too hard, for too little money, for too little power. Often, they don't have the emotional rigor to manage a creative role, even if they could do the basic day to day of it.
C - I’ll second that. As a designer/ fabricator/ builder/ maker/ problem solver/ over thinker/ obsessive/ self critical/ business minded individual that I am. Working in a creative position, taking direction, giving direction, and making it work day after day is grueling if your not tempered. I make a comfortable living but no where near rich in the monetary sense. I am rich in the freedom to learn from my mistakes with my job. Take ownership over the work I do, and be willing to say “I don’t know”. There first needs to be a confrontation of ones limitations that needs to be acknowledged in pursuit of a creative career. I think someone who has wanting a creative career stuck in a non creative job is to gripped by fear to pursue one. The path isn’t linear and defined like surgeons or doctor but requires the same amount of discipline and rigor to the realm of creative pursuit. If you have the gumption for creative work you have to be willing to put up with a lot of nonsense along the way that cannot be taught only learned.
@@djgogh you are so true to when you say - Their worse version will be released and when it doesn't work, they will blame you. - ... When you explain to people the reasoning behind the design/function sometimes the client does not want to hear it or believe it because they think they know better after years of training and understanding the people in power still think they know better. Their ego is our down fall.
But all of these problems don't stem from the creative part, they stem from the system in which that creativity must exist.
I don’t think the definition of “creative” you’re using here is the same as in the video. The work of “creative” jobs like yours is not equivalent to the unique sculpting of a gargoyle (an interesting nuance that could be explored further!)
Plus, just because you don’t see untapped creative potential in other people doesn’t mean it does not or could not exist. Their creativity could have dried up, unstimulated, or you might not be seeing them at their best creative minds.
They don't understand that it has to be in your blood 24/7, which is what makes an artist successful.
"Crearivity" is subjective and anyone can interpret it however they want. Im an IT major, so I believe for me personally that's how im creative with website development and my data visualizations i create.
Creative doesn't just limit to art, music, and theater, etc.
Hmmm, not sure about that.
It’s very likely that you will be using some kind of best practices of software development. You will write the code that’s very similar to the code of thousands other people. Even when you will be doing some system design, there will be only 10 different combinations of microservices that you can use. Your choice will likely be limited because you’ll want to use whatever is popular in the industry, or whatever fits your requirements.
From what I see in my generalist role, and from what I saw from working with devs, you get an opportunity to show creativity and design some elegant solution only once is 4-6 months. And likely your creativity will offer a marginal improvement for the overall product you’re building.
Source: I work in IT/Tech.
But yeah, I still think we should rise against the meaninglessness, and search for creativity and meaning in life.
Whatever your hobbies are, those are your "real" job, the one that lets you sleep well at night. They are like the shy kid with talent you have to drag onstage, then wow.
Why are these videos always so relevant to me?
Market research
they listen in on us all and always happen to find just the right words, as the man above says, Market Research..
Not just you, they're herding us. We should all get together and talk about exactly what led us here, bet it's some grand mind control experiment by google
I walked away from a six figure income job to be independent, more creative, and have more freedom. Been doing it for years now, travel the world constantly, have a great business and still do just as well. Chase your dreams people!
Hi Christopher.. I'm interested in what you do that has managed to fulfil you as thus. :)
@first last I make just as much money now and am happier with much more freedom.
@@exploremoreoutdoors and here I am born in the wrong country without a glimpse of chance of making it out of this place, suicidal, depressed as if I am sitting in a death seat waiting for it to be turned.
Most work today is just managing and operating, very few do creating. Bear in mind though, creative jobs are harder, because combing exisiting ideas and creating new value isn’t simple, but with practice and observation, it gets much easier.
Just when you're thinking about quitting your job...
I sacrificed love and family to follow my dream job. I regret nothing: now I know that I have the opportunity to be happy one day, at least. But I had the chance to survive while walking my path and I feel so sympathetic for those who were not as lucky as I was and are stuck in a monotonous or hard job but still they do it at their best, for the sake of duty. Those are some of the true heroes of our days, the ones who makes our society to function imho.
Saad nazim I quit mine and it was a good thing but I’m not stimulated
Haha. Right.
Today.... Wish me luck..!!!
Creative jobs require high skill, drive, and the want. The larger the population the more creative people there are, yet too many don't seize the opportunity to be creative; only because they want to stay in a comfortable life with little risk.
Yes, and the video is explaining how we got to a point where being creative requires risk taking, rather than being a natural part of work the same way it is a natural part of the human spirit
exactly. If you are really creative, the mob won't understand, and therefore the demand for your services will be lower than for a mob job. You have to really put yourself out there and for the committed few, you can really make a go of it.
Theres no such thing as a creative job . the first humans to make art didnt do it for a check and humans today that make a job out of making art are actually retarded .
@@emilianovega6041 soooo musicians and record labels are retarded? Movie directors? Authors? They're retarded.... makes sense 🤔
This is kind of depressing. But it also makes me realize that my choice to "go it alone" and do my freelance thing means my work has a far deeper meaning (for me) than just making enough money to cover the bills. I think the increase in "side hustles" in which people are trying their hand at a creative endeavor for some side money while working a full time job is evidence that we ache for something more in our lives than the routines we typically fall into at work.
Nonsense point. We have far more free time to pursue creative endeavors than ever before. There was a time when all of our time was occupied growing food, cooking,washing clothes by hand, cutting wood,ect. Everyday assistance consumed our every waking moment.There was little to no time for artistic endeavors. Many a genius was never realized because they were milking a cow or hoeing the corn by hand. The actual point here is that due to more exposure and being witness to the best of the best we now realize the mediocrity of the average person. What we now call everyday items in our homes would have once been the possessions and entertainment of kings.What we lack in the developed world is the appreciation of the unfathomable wealth and experience we live out everyday. First world problems.
I think it is important to note that even those lucky enough to have an aspect of creativity in their paid occupation have to perform many non-creative tasks as part of their work day. Another thing to remember is that not everyone cares if they satisfy their creative urges at work or in their leisure time. I had a high paying job with little creativity but wrote at night to balance myself out. Not all creative works have to be produced for mass consumption. Some remain personal pursuits.
I am working as a management consultant and proactively adding artsy activities to my life to balance myself out. I have a lot of appreciation for my job and company but recently this idea occurred to me that I want to be a creative director in 3-5 yrs. I feel like I have so much creativity to offer which could be appreciated more and make me feel more rewarded. However, I don't want to start from the bottom up ( say in ad agency, designer - art director - creative d). Such a dilemma.
I'm so lucky I could never keep a job when I was young. Because of that, despite how smart and industrious I am, I was always having to start over in new fields. The result was that years later when I finally got my act together enough to deal well with others professionally, I was able to thrive in my own business. I had a stunning array of work experience, and it helped me build a very successful business very quickly after a layoff, even as recession set in for the general economy.
Being self-employed is the creative outlet of my dreams, lots of freedom AND lots of money. Only now I'm not even self-employed anymore. I'm retired youngish and simply have creative projects that I don't even bother to monetize, even though I probably could. Don't knock bouncing from one boring job to another for some years. You still gain experience. But also don't settle into it. Keep aiming for more until you manage to create it.
Most people have their creativity knocked out of them by the time they reach early adulthood.
Missing the point huh?
You can be creative as a nurse or a teacher. To be able to adapt your job to yourself and the others around you is creativity at it's peak.
I like your point about adaptation. Artists work with limitation. Creativity is the result of that friction.
Freelancing can be a creative job
And as they said it's very hard to compete against people with more efficient standardised labor in your field
That's I'm trying now
Still your own creativity
if you can afford to live in a place with opportunities for free lance. this isn't an option for most in towns like
It can and it can’t, you’re still having to do someone else’s vision and not your own
Independent is the future. Being creative and working for a company is a paradox.
Keep these depressing anti-capitalism videos coming
SEEMS TO BE AN ANTI CAPITALISM VIDEO IDEALIZED TO GENERATE PROPAGANDA AMONG DE CAPITALISTIC SOCIETIES THAT ARE SURE TO BE NOT PERFECT; BUT IT ES THUS FAR THE BEST WAY TO ORGANIZE OUR SOCIETY. IT IS WISE THAT THE CREATORS OF THESE VIDEOS USE THE FRUSTRATIONS OF PEOPLO TO HAVE MORE REBEL ATTITUDES IN THEIR SOCIETIES. IT SEEM MORE THAT THEY ARE NOT EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS PER SE; BUT WITH A VERY DEFINED POLITICAL AIM. I BET IT IS PART OF THE SYSTEMATIC APPROACH OF THE ANTI WEST SOCIETIES WORLD POWERS WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF THESE; MY FIRST BET IS RUSSIA.
The beauty of Capitalism, is that you can choose your own future.
Juan Sebastián Naranjo - Omg... we get it. You have an amazing imagination. Don’t need to yell in all caps though!
im a fan of break-evenism
@@noice2606 say that to chinese people who work 16 hours a day
Human beings now find themselves in an even bigger pond now. In fact, the pond is so huge, even the biggest fish look small. I went to film school, made over 30 projects while I was there, and haven’t been able to make a living off of my work since I left over 7 years ago. It’s depressing and I wish SoL was around making these videos before I decided to “follow my heart”.
The basis of creativity, at least when you're working for a client or targeting customers, is problem solving: how can you eliminate or reduce the pains they're facing in a way that's unique, or at least better than your competition?
While not creative in an artistic sense, being able to develop innovative solutions is a much more marketable and valuable skill. And I say that as someone who works in what's considered a creative field.
There are many creative jobs in the world but fortunately, many of them do not pay well such as being an art teacher. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Teachers get paid fairly well, they also get a lot of benefits because it’s a government job
@@Markgeorgee lol
@@Markgeorgee they actually don't, especially if you consider that they're unpaid for planning lessons or marking which they have to do in their own time (my mums a teacher)
I'd rather give up drawing forever than become an art teacher lool. Kids are little bastards.
Often people (like accountants) who tell me they 'wish their job was as creative as mine' forget they would have a 50% pay cut for harder work.
This video awaked up some of my fears of the incertanty, since in couples months I will graduate from Architecture school and I am realizing that the majority of the job opportunities I will be faced up with are very below my initial expectations (not when it comes to money but instead when it comes to having time and space to make a real contribution to our urban environment). Some of my peers also share the same struggles and are starting to demand for a change or in some cases being the change creating new ways of putting their skills to a good social use; so I have hope that maybe, being history cyclical, in the future more and more individuals will stand against emptiness of values and unworthy standardization and demand quality over quantity.
Really interesting aspect of industry that I saw today. Thank you TSOL! You guys are really changing our perspectives into a softer more thoughtful ones. 😄
And if we cannot add our humanity, our creative spark, our little drop of the divine, into our work, it's not merely 'boring', it's meaningless. And if our work is meaningless, much of our lives become meaningless. So, we'll need to anesthetize ourselves with pharmaceuticals or Netflix or endure our depression and anxiety. . . I found this true with teaching as well. Our increasing reliance on standardized curriculum drives out all the creatives. During the last years of my teaching career, I felt like a master craftsman being asked to work on an assembly line. I think our children understand this, and that's why so many are medicated. They are the canaries in the coal mines, and instead of fixing the mine, we are medicating the canaries. Very sad and dehumanizing; insulting to the soul . . I hope the local food/artisan movements can counteract this headlong dive into standardized globalization (globalized standardization?), but that hope is waning. .
Being a designer, I kind of agree with School of life but not fully. Your outlook on what creativity is essentially pretty narrow. Even a person operating in this capitalist worlds needs to solve problems at individual level and their the role of creativity is maximised.
I'm not sure "solving problems" equates to being creative. Or rather, only that. I'd say, that's a pretty constrictive way of being creative. A pretty capitalist view of "how you can put your mark on things".
@@MarylZ I am not saying thats the ONLY way creativity works. But its just a small example, that shows that the video is not the entire story.
@@anmolgupta3600 different mindsets. You're seeing it within a constrain, and the video talks about what's outside of it.
What is the difference in the percentage of creative jobs historically? Most were peasants in the fields which, though not as back breaking as we can sometimes assume, was fairly monotonous and hard labor. Stone Mansions where part of the creative 1%, so skilled and prised for that skill that they were allowed to travel freely and form a strong and enduring guild (from which the freemasons get their name). I'm all for expanding the the number of people in creative and fulfilling jobs but I think it is unnecessary to invoke the beautiful poison of a false nostalgia. The lack of fulfilling work has been an enduring problem exacerbated by taking people out of the natural environment and away from community. What changed now is that we have the resources to reshape our world; we should make fulfilling work not to return to an era of fulfilling work but because we and our ancestors deserved fulfilling work.
Thank you for the lovely and thought provoking video :)
Thanks. This idea of 'it used to be better' is not correct. It focuses on tiny group of free men. Most were servants and women. But maybe tending to the kids and the food and the household and the crop and the livestock is partly creative - but also very repetative.
I appreciate that there’s is a brief highlight of the video written in the notes. I love having access to the written word. Several podcasts I listen to provide written transcripts for their listeners. Any chance The School of Life would consider doing this? It would be so helpful. 🙏🏼
I've been trying to pursue my dreams of being a filmmaker and UA-cam has been a big help
Maybe we can have creative hobbies?
Caras Life on the Farm you'll never have time. Be creative every day, like eating. Any work can be creative. Don't compartmentalise it to 'evenings' etc. Same rules as 'being healthy', it's not happening at the gym, it's happening everywhere
@@onemorechris good advice
Lots of people have creative hobbies. I find immense pleasure in computer graphics and tinker around when I get some free time. But the problem: A 9 to 5 job in an unrelated field and finding time after all the commute and everything, to work on something you like..is hard.
@@25knightcrawler same especially when you like doing 3d modelling design but arnt good at it yet but put it off another time
@@25knightcrawler yeah. That's tough. I'm an at home mom right now, so I can sprinkle little creative times into my day.
Great insights, and the graphics in this were absolutely stunning!
Nice to see that almost everyone in this comment section is okay for selling their time and wasting away without having actually impacted anything.
I see you everywhere, from The Daily Wire to JBP's Channel, nice XD
I've never felt more validated after one of these videos than I do right now. I'm incredibly lucky to be making soundtracks for video games for a living, and while I'm sometimes a little short on cash, I do have an enormous amount of creative freedom in my work. Feeling very grateful. 😅💙👍
Where are all of the creative jobs??
Look on the internet!!! UA-cam, Twitch, Twitter, etc.... Many independent artists are going to the internet and building careers for themselves. In old days, artists used to have to rely on gallery operators or publishers to get their work out there. That's all changed now!!
If you don't want a creative job tho, just go get a PhD and work for a lab as another cog in the wheel.
Thank you for explaining the problem that most who clicked this video were probably already aware of and not answering the question in the title on bit
I’m a programmer. While I might not have the opportunity to create something like a painting, I get the chance to write beautiful code. When I solve a difficult problem well, it’s very rewarding.
Etsy & Tindie tho bro. Its not only millionares who can have creative jobs. But like others here have said - you must make this job yourself. Perhaps fittingly, creating your own job(s) tends to be a nessesary step towards working in a creative job.
+ioic+ seems like an oxymoron, creativity and self-expression comes from work that is led by you, while a job denotes tasks resulting from someone else’s creativity~
Wow, this is very relevant to me. I'm an "interior designer" for a large company that essentially hands me a plan to implement and calls it "creative" work. The irony is that straying from the plan is referred to as "getting creative" and generally frowned upon. It's incredibly frustrating and dull. On top of this I have coworkers who don't understand why I don't consider this type of work creative. For me the word 'creative' implies freedom to think and being trusted to make good choices.
This reminded me of a John Cleese speech on creativity. He definitely had a creative career and were considered a comedy genius. In the speech, he points out the fact that creativity requires freedom and time to play, but he also points the there was no work done till got to "serious mode" where focus and boredom were a part of the process. So i think even a creative successful artist falls victim of standardization in the industrial society.
I wanted to be a writer for a living but that didn't pay. I worked in a corporate hospital with no creativity at all. I decided to try making a game, but making games is extremely competitive and a very difficult living. I found a solution by making adult video games for a living at the time it just barely became available. It's lucrative and I can write literally anything I want. You can be creative and make a living if you find a crack in the system, but it's difficult however you do it. My example wouldn't be successful (or desirable) for many, but opportunities can be taken if you've got the education to see them and pursue the ones you see. There are better ways out there if you know they're there.
It all hit me at once. I seen the path I was on in life wasn’t fulfilling and didn’t bring me joy out of each and every day I lived. So I started making UA-cam videos and held it to a Hugh priority on my life and noted that there was no two ways about it, I either live a life we’re I am my own boss or I never work a job. Life is so fragile and I find it disrespectful to give yourself a career that makes you numb and hurt every day you sit in that office chair.
Another deep and thought provoking video. I agree that important aspects of life, money, creativity, AND others, are accumulating with a few and squeezed out of many. When we are taught values that are removed from our grasp, it's setting people and societies and cultures up for . . . . for failure. This is a problem for which no countering ideology is available. This problem might be contributing to the chaos that we see around us. I hope someone can explain this problem in a more understandable way.
This video is a good start. Can someone please contribute to explaining this better? Our descendants will thank you and you will find fame and honor.
interesting topic, this realizes me I got something in my job that is apparently, something rare. maybe that is one of the reasons I like this type of job so much and have settled mastering it instead of trying to grow up in the corporate ladder.
Honestly, creative is here, in UA-cam. Sure it may be hidden among many since it's so commonplace, but it's quite intriguing how people entertain us with what they are good at, be it gaming, teaching, animating or just plain hanging around.
I think many more jobs than you think can be creative. For example, I am a caregiver for special needs people. I have to be creative when coming up with ways to do many things like come up with routines or come up with ways to make day to day tasks more accessible. My parents work office jobs where they have to be creative in coming up with budgets, schedules, and new ways to do things too.
This was the opposite of what I expected, whilst also communicating exactly what I've been trying to tell those around me who keeps wondering why I don't just start my creative business. It's just not possible.
Everyone in the comment section is beautiful, including YOU School of Life. Thank you for your help!
Creativity is hard to measure so you can't create a 'job role' around such a parameter without having to closely manage it at which point you may as well do the job yourself...Its often the creative ppl who create the job role to free them up from having to do the boring stuff so they can focus on being even more creative.
Thank you for the renewed appreciation for my own humble creations. :)
Do what you want. Money will eventually come if you show up everyday (like working 9-5) and you put in the time. You cannot just try it on the side and expect something to happen. You have to put something at risk.
i worked in warehouse and production ... it was a nightmare ... i dont know how some poeple can work there for years .. i worked there for a month and i was depressed af. Every day order picking or packing ... terrible job. The true slavery of modern world. They fired me becouse i wasnt working fast enough.
I know the feeling the same might happen to me in my retail janitor role I hate it but there is zero opportunity where I live I'm a prisoner at the job centre
My work can be creative because I meet different people everyday, hear their stories and guide them.
Thank you for being honest about this school of life.
what if we would opt for a more modest income in compensation for that creative freedom? humble start-ups and niche products? maybe? am I too positive?
I wish you guys would bring back making Curriculum videos. Those are by far the best
I think this video operates with quite a narrow definition of a creative job. Creativity can manifest in a myriad of useful ways not just in an artistic outlet.
As an engineer, I excercise my creativity and imagination all the time trying to imagine how a certain solution might work, finding new ways to solve an issue, trying to explain my vision to other people, etc.
I also write poetry and do contemporary dance in my free time and tbh I feel like I'm employing the same mechanisms in my brain for all these activities. The main difference is that in my job the focus is external and therefore how I feel about certain things is secondary to achieving the desired result. But even so, I have done things I didn't understood or agreed with at the time that I later appreciated so I don't think that's such a huge sacrifice.
There are many ways to go about our lives and I think every day there are countless opportunities to do things right, have some class, do something special, go the extra mile, be constructive, etc.
Props to animators and illustrators of this video. Very very very well done!
Ideas represented - It seems to be very limited and shallow thought on creative jobs topic. Firstly the definition of creative job presented here is a bit limited to stereotypes than what it actually is.
Anyway, thank you!
I became so unhappy with my job that it led me to start making videos just so I can have some sort of creative outlet. However I’m still working on building a way to generate income through my creativity
There is space for us creative people especially because we are in a digital age trying to understand and get peoples attention, and you will need to be original to do so
Generally, in major cities, film, and graphic design.
yay something other than relationships and personal mental health and social health
Create something new... there are plenty of creative jobs out there: marketer, artist, designer, architect, salesman, teacher, coach, etc... or just take up a hobby as a creative outlet... the last thing I would want to do is toil over building a cathedral or castle that took a couple hundred years to complete... one is as creative as one wants to be...
Architect is not a creative job. I left because it is very boring and tedious. I am now writing and drawing my own graphic novel, that is creative.
There are creative architects and non creative architects... I hope wish you the best in your pursuit to find creativity...
@@talkcommonsense I am so much happier doing illustration. As for architects job, design is only 10percent of architects work. Most of the work are project management with planning authority, clients, contractors, consultants and other colleagues. There are a lot of components like, drainage, air duct, electric circuit, ceilings, floor tiles, toilets, elevators, escalators to put into the drawings. This is not a creative profession. Off course, there are some so called creative practices, but only the designer architect do the small portion of design. There are project architects who run the project, and architects who draft the documents and specification. Also, there are even more uncreative practices which do not care about design at all.
@Tak Cheng Sze So why didn't you go into design architecture?
@@talkcommonsense only the boss do the design usually. Everyone else is just slave to the boss. It is no difference to other office work. Also there are only few design architects who get a chance to design museum or institutional buildings. Most of the buildings are offices and shopping mall which the clients do not care.
I've seen some creative things in ems, especially when equipment breaks down or the patient is in an interesting situations.
Hello from Toronto!
I put myself through an sfx college, and yet no one wants to hire me. Its beyond frustrating that I dropped 3 years of my time and $80k to not get hired..it seems like in my industry, only the ones with decades of experience are the ones to get hired, instead of hiring someone that knows the beginner techniques and training them to be great. End rant lol I'm still looking up though and doing my best to be patient. It's just hard sometimes
There's a difference between a *job* and a *career*.
You can't expect your *job* to be creative: after all, it's just a job.
On the other side, a *career* can be very fulfilling, but requires risks and sacrifices.
Pick your compromise.
Matteo Rizzo FACTS
what? how can a creative career be built with a bunch of dull jobs?
No. There are plenty to dull careers
@@nicoloss9978 only if you pick dull jobs. If you truly are creative you will not end up in IKEA or Applr or such. Maybe you will have connections with people who have great ideas, you start a company, you create your own products or designs. The only downside is that you will produce them with machines but not with your hand. But even that is possible. At least you will build prototypes by your own. You are so far that you don't need chinese workers in factories, you know how you build your own designed chair, you know how to print your book, you know it all, but to sell it you won't do it alone.
Also most creative people build up companies or are freelancers. They don't pick jobs, they do what they want to fund their ideas
There are no dull jobs, only dull people. And creative people are not dull.
Sounds like you've read Seth Godins books! :)
I see a lot of people see this as depressing with no solution. I see this as more of an eye opener that if you are a creative you should understand just how competitive the market is. As opposed to the past when people cared more for craftsmanship and quality.... and if you are a creative. Create a more creative its not that your ideas are impossible. But In order to stand out you should understand what you are up against. That this is the modern world.
I am an electronics engineer of 30 years. My jobs used to be interesting, plenty & well paid...But today?...think it is well paid? Think I get to be creative? Think I have all sorts of jobs available to me?...think again! No employers want people with big experience because big experience means expensive. I now keep my creativity for my own projects because it is the only place I am allowed to be truly creative...
Revolt!
Destroy what wants to destroy you!
"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge" - Michail Bakunin
A documend about problems with finding creative jobs, made by a channel that has each video made with unique and creative animations
The ability of people to develop a creative presence on the Internet via platforms like UA-cam - with streaming/pre-roll advertising and revenue through subscribers via ventures like Patreon - belies the main point somewhat.
For many - bands, podcasters, gamers, tech reviewers, etc. - there are great creative opportunities.
But the generally inexpensive startup costs mean the competition is fierce.
It's like that in voice-over - a lot of potential work, but more and more people getting into the field everyday.
For me personally, working in a creative endeavor like voice-over means I can continue honing my craft, serving my clients, and leaving a bit of myself in the world.
But the concentration of wealth and power by the 1% means this creative freedom to make platform/social-media based incomes will come under threat (through efforts to end Net Neutrality and control distribution channels etc.) The wealthiest will definitely want a (big) slice of this growing and largely unregulated pie.
The more their wealth grows, it may mean that creative people will have to seek them out as historical-style patrons.
And what will happen when AI and robots dislocate up to half of the workforce?
To look for a creative job is the wrong way of going about things. Of course, as they said in the video, there is a number of creative jobs out there, but most of the time the jobs are offered by people who "need something done". They don't need you to be especially creative, at least not beyond a certain area, they just need you to get down on the task. It's them who is being creative. Because in order to be creative, you need to be the one who decides what's going to be done next, not the one who waits for orders. In other words, the most creative you can get is when you work independently or perhaps even start a business around whatever it is you do.
Honestly I think "creative" jobs are overrated. All the fashion designers etc. aren't necessarily happier than the average joe. I think we all want (and should strive for) a fulfilling job, where we have a sense of purpose, goals, and clear steps we can take to achieve our goals. But that is very different from being creative. If you can be creative in your job that's awesome, but to me that is just a bonus. You don't need it to be happy.
There are a lot of people in the comment section who have criticised the content of the video. And I agree with a lot of them but I'm also trying to understand what the video was trying to say.
I guess what the video was trying to say was that in the past you could be creative with the mundane jobs that you were given. There was far less standardization with regards to how one actually worked. Thus even though there was a standard way of making gargoyles, an individual builder could, even if he was a mere lowly worker, add his own touches to it or approach its construction in his own way. He may not get paid much for it but he did have a considerably larger space for attempting minor innovations in his approach. Which meant that even if the job wasn't 'creative' by itself, there wasn't much of a desire to escape or find inspiration beyond one's occupation to satisfy one's creative impulses.
Ofcourse there were and always will be jobs which won't allow men to be creative. But with industrialisation the way we view creativity itself has changed. For the artisans of old times it was a way to add meaning to their lowly jobs, like a humble potter engrossed in painting stick figurines on his pots to be sold in the bazzar the next day. He wasn't a particularly famous potter ; neither were his pots objectively better than those of others. His product was a solution to a problem, yes. But it wasn't invented by him and neither had he made any fundamental changes to its design. His creativity was purely for himself. It wasn't meant to serve any greater purpose or even to be appreciated by the general public for that matter.
Now creativity in one's work or creativity when considered professionally is about finding solutions to problems either known or yet unknown or making better versions of existing solutions. It's supposed to build an audience for oneself and provide value for those who seek you. Which are all legitimate expectations but it can be argued that creativity has not just been made subservient to industrialisation but is also being exploited for the sake of it.
The video isn't saying that creative jobs don't exist anymore. But it would be difficult to argue that standardization hasn't affected how creatives view their work. Today if you're good at something the desire is to reach to a large audience and corner as much of the market as possible. If some designer has designed a really innovative new line of clothing he or she'll either mass produce it in China under a big brand to be sold to the masses or they might choose to sell it under their own brand, produced indegeniously by a few well paid workers in limited quantities at a much higher price for a much more affluent crowd. Standardization has allowed things, especially cheap things to be mass produced and services to be streamlined. And the labour which works to make those materials and offer those services such as , factory workers, software developers, etc find it much harder to find a personal connection with the job they do. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the variety of jobs we can do has exponentially increased but the way we can do them has become increasingly standardized.
Be creative in your social media or hobby and perhaps it will take off for you in unexpected ways .
Wow, that was depressing. I kept waiting for them to offer some solutions, some ideas about what to do about this predicament they were describing so eloquently. Nothing. They just said it is what it is, deal with it. :(
Until we destroy capitalism
@@matiasgarciacasas558 To be an artist is to be part of capitalism. Trade is how we make money. Capitalism is a good thing and been in existence in this country since it began. Only left wing loons in the last 20 years think something is wrong with it. Get an education.
@@TippyPuddles "only left wing loons in the last 20 years". You definetly need to learn more about history. Since the very beggining of capitalism (which was definetly not something that only happened in the US) there were people criticizing it.
Many, many countries today try to interfere and regulate in some way the process of capital to minimize some of its worst effects.
Nice to see some architecture folk in your vids!
Would highly recommend 'Against Creativity' by Oli Mould
hmm. Love your stuff, but not sure I agree with the premise here. One angle is that in the far past, labor was super cheap so those creatives toiled for practically nothing - as most of them do today. I challenge the idea that most of us want creative work. I work at big corp, and most people don't demonstrate any creativity I can detect or any desire to have any - kind of like the orignal Mac advert. I'd argue that the average worker values predictability far more than creativity. I also have quite a lot of freedom to express my ideas. I think that creativity is not the definition of the work output but how each worker approaches it, even if the ultimate outputs standardized and repeatable. As a business person or engineer or any technical field, the creativity comes in the conceptualization, design, definition, process definition, marketing, sales and execution. Stamping out the widgets is just the last step in the creative process and at the bottom of that economic ladder its not very creative but there's a lot more than factory jobs out there.
If everyone stamped what they touched in their work life, everything we used and owned would be riddled with weird, expensive vanity markings. Hobbies exist for a good reason. Just look at SoundCloud, or any of the countless art circles on the internet. We've never before been able to create, collaborate, and share on the scale that we do today. Sure our nine-to-five jobs might not be super artisan, but they provide for us to explore our other, more creative interests without the need to conform our products of passions to whatever's most profitable.
people see the people that are successes. when they play a game and hear how so and so pulled their life together and put together the game and it's a massive success, they think I can do that too. artstation got a blog where they talk about people who are now making a living from their website, where before they were not. but I always wonder about the people who do not. Who slips through the cracks? How many exactly? I read recently on someone's blog about how as an artist they feel they have to keep upping their skills higher than ever and feeling it does not pay as much for that.
and at the same time others say they are succeeding. As someone who is trying to be an artist, working on skills, but still not there (the ladder is very high), I don't have a perspective that I can really see what the actual struggle is. It ends up just feeling like some percentage skill, and some luck. No idea how much though. And I feel others are also unsure on the exact numbers. We see a lot make it and a lot don't. I heard a very depressing figure that for every 15 students getting this college degree in this creative field, only 1 actually will go on to get a high end job. And that is for college students, not those without those resources?! So yeah, and yet everyone around still continues to sound optimistic. It's very messed up, for sure. I do wish we lived in a time where much more people made gargoyles for a living.
There are millions of new products and services to be idealized and built. One thing is to build an idea (prototype) other, completely different, is to mass produce it.
A perfect example of this is the 3D assets industry, 3D Modellers are talented people with great artistic skill, however if you can sell an asset you create, such as a chair, online for $4 then everyone will start doing that, the prices drop or you put 10+ hours work into a single asset, as such those who use these assets, who are often no where near talented enough to make them can get anything they want to make the image a client wants and still charge 1 to 3K per image where as the talented modellers, having sold themselves short make far less than those they are providing for.
Imagine how long the apprenticeship was to become a master and build a gargoyle. Probably started with carrying stone, then making round stones into square ones for 20 years. If you made a mistake it was literally in stone.
Like all other school of life videos….this one too doesn’t give u any solution to the problem, rather just explain the problem more clearly ..
I think we do a lot of repetitive stuff but it can lead to different outcomes. I mean jobs don't have to be creative overall, just make it creative by ,you know, adding something unordinary. Besides we all live in the same world that is inevitably evolving which means some things we will like some things won't, Just accepting it without being a drama-lama can save a lot of hustle.
I believe that being a learner at work is better than pitying yourself about working at repetitive job. If you don't like job,why not to try another one?
We don't necessarily have to make our own business ,we can just hop from one job to another to learn and to experience new feelings.
Just adjust to the world without feeling down, it's easy if you spend time you spare for complaints on something you like
Hope I did deliver my point of view
You’re right ONLY IF a creative job means #MakingACHAIR -My mom and dad were interior designers who owned a furniture store -They were creative everyday.
Being a designer today doesn't mean you are less creative. Who needs another chair? Who needs another phone? That's not the point. Today there's a big creative community which are able to make money, using and creating their own tools. Design is all about making new things and being innovative: so how does the technology of the future look like? Let's be creative!
...highly recommend the documentary The Future of Work and Death.