Idk what to do 🐸

So I’m just starting at college and I know I have time but I feel like I just don’t know exactly what I want to do… well I do but it’s just pretty difficult. I want to be an illustrator and make comics and visual novels and stuff like that but the issue is the salary. Im afraid of doing a career just for salary bc then I end up hating it for the rest of my life. Like nursing for example, I’m only doing classes bc that career earns good amount but for my next semester I planned on only getting my AA degree since I actually don’t want to be a nurse… I mean I love to spend time with children but the idea of them dying or anything related would prob give me PTSD so I rather not do that. And I know that I’ve been suggested that I can work at an office instead but I don’t think that will give me enough money. Idk I just hope that I can find a career that I hope to enjoy and afford me a comfortable living and I want to do it soon.

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

Do comics in your free time. Make Paypal and join one of those sites where people pay you for your art, like Patreon, and see how it goes.

NativePortlander1970

@CrazyMusicLover My niece tried going freelance with her graphics arts degree, she cannot get a bite no matter how much she has aggressively self promoted.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@NativePortlander1970 Is she objectively good? Is she still doing that or does another job?

NativePortlander1970

@CrazyMusicLover She's actually very talented, artistic abilities runs in the paternal side family, she also has numerous blue ribbons won at county fairs while growing up. But like I mentioned no one is hiring, so she ended becoming a caregiver to several clients through a service, she got the gig through her mother's contacts as she's an RN at the city hospital.

personl3 · 22-25, F

@NativePortlander1970 yeah I was planning of being an RN but I can try doing them as a hobby