@Stereoguy They do it on a much larger scale at the university for the business majors and have been for about 20 years. They come up with projects and see how much they can make from them and do a lot of sales.

@luctoretemergo Oklahoma has produced lot of country music stars.

I Googled it....yeah, quite a few.
The beautiful Carrie Underwood among others!

@luctoretemergo Toby Keith lives a few miles from here. Supposedly richer than Garth Brooks....he started out as an oil well worker.

@Fungirlmmm I wonder how many months a year a rodeo clown can work? Sounds like fun if you like adrenaline surges.

@4meAndyou I knew a woman who had a degree in commercial art and she was working service jobs. I asked her why with that degree and she said “You have to have a gimmick to succeed”...told her to get a gimmick. Maybe it’s not as easy as that but it takes creativity to come up with a gimmick and that’s a part of selling your art.

@cherokeepatti I had no joy in any part of graphic design or printmaking. None of it made me feel the sort of inner happiness that sculpture made me feel. And as an artist, even if I hated the sort of work I was doing, I was emotionally tied to it. So that if I got a job at...say...an advertising agency, I would have been crushed to pieces if they had hated my work.

@4meAndyou I had an art teacher in junior high who was a sculptor, she had majored in art and then became a teacher. She’d bring some of her sculptures to class on Fridays to show us. She had such a unique style that I could recognize her sculptures without seeing her name on them...once at a store window of a small art gallery and another time at the Oklahoma City zoo where she did sculptures of children in the butterfly garden. That is the mark of a true artist. She was really good with the eyes.

@TexChik I was too, living with a violent father who had just dosed my mom with LSD and put her in a VA hospital for a year as a result.

@cherokeepatti Or policeman, probably, right?

@Byron8by7 not one...But You-Tubers and Starbucks Baristas 🤣😂🤣

@cherokeepatti They can multitask

@SW-User I could take you there.

@robb65 Thanks so much. :-)
That's really sweet of you.

@Stereoguy So far there’s 157...it’s preK through 8th grade. They expect the students to volunteer for some fund-raising efforts and the parents are expected to volunteer. I’ll have to see what areas I can help with. It’s only about 2 miles from my house so I can go there pretty often. Have to take him back & forth to school as well.