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How Do People Get Anything Done? -.-
Sep. 12th, 2014 09:52 amSo there was an article on Natto Soup about all the various stuff she does to prepare for a con, including a boatload of original art, an elaborate table setup, etc., which, upon reading, I simply threw my hands into the air.
How the hell do people have time to do this stuff? It'd take me a month to get all that done– a month in which I didn't actually, y'know, draw any comics. Am I just ridiculously slow? I've been knocking myself out trying to get two pages a week done consistently, working on it full time, and even that seems to be beyond me.
The other thing I notice about her post is the numbers at the end: costs $575, total sales $740. I don't know how many hours she put in before the con, but if we assume three 7-hour days at the table, that's $165 profit (before taxes), or approximately $7.85/hr for just the labor of the con itself.
That's... not a lot.
It's one thing to be scraping by on fumes for a hobby; it's another entirely to be banging your head for a living as a day job. Even if you're banging your head for love, you still have to pay your bills.
I have a lot to think about.
-The Gneech
How the hell do people have time to do this stuff? It'd take me a month to get all that done– a month in which I didn't actually, y'know, draw any comics. Am I just ridiculously slow? I've been knocking myself out trying to get two pages a week done consistently, working on it full time, and even that seems to be beyond me.
The other thing I notice about her post is the numbers at the end: costs $575, total sales $740. I don't know how many hours she put in before the con, but if we assume three 7-hour days at the table, that's $165 profit (before taxes), or approximately $7.85/hr for just the labor of the con itself.
That's... not a lot.
It's one thing to be scraping by on fumes for a hobby; it's another entirely to be banging your head for a living as a day job. Even if you're banging your head for love, you still have to pay your bills.
I have a lot to think about.
-The Gneech
