Thread 939520706

>22
>highschool diploma
>went to art school (yes, I know, dumb decision, dont bother me about it, I been knew) but dropped out because it was too expensive
>currently going to community college
>had jobs in the past, I worked at popeyes when I was 17, a nice upscale/high end restaurant job back when I was in art school, was a host at outback steakhouse for a good couple of years after, so a bit of experience
>good at both 2D and 3D art, pretty decent portfolio in that end. did a couple of gigs for small youtubers, and some of my fellow classmates back in school too.
>no criminal background
>still cant find a job

I've been looking for a job FOREVER man, I know my resume isnt the best, and yes, I made an expensive dumb decision for my personal life, but COME ON man, I cant even get hired an MCDONALDS for fuck sake. you have ANY idea how long I've been looking for a job? I keep getting ghosted, I keep getting rejection letters, I'll SOMETIMES get an interveiw, but they never call back.

I dont know what I'm doing wrong here. I dont even care about getting an art job, or an office job, I'm LITERALLY applying to minimum wage positions in places like mcdonalds, bestbuy, target, walmart, applebees, etc. I've applied as a dishwasher, a linecook, a server, a cashier, a receptionist, everything. is it something I'm saying? is my resume whack? I dont know what I'm doing wrong here.

>>939520706 (OP)

I never even went to high school, but I've been offered 3 jobs teaching art college.

I turned them down. I was too busy doing my own art business

your problem: telling yourself that you're not an artist

I dunno if this is right, but: take the art school off your resume completely.
if you haven't completed anything at the community college - like an associates degree - take that off your resume completely.
i know it sucks, but having stuff like restaurant jobs is actually good for getting more restaurant jobs.
also, at the risk of being called a boomer or whatever - for restaurant jobs, just show up at the place and fill out an application. showing up in person is good for jobs like this, I think.

instead of hemming and hawing

instead of condensing yourself that you are a restaurant hostess who made a mistake by fantasizing about being an artist...

You need to double down on the art and realize you are AN ARTIST WHO WASTED TIME WITH RESTAURANT JOBS

>>939520808
>>939520846

you know, I never expected 4CHAN of all places to tell me "you should do art bro, you're an artist, stop wasting time with real jobs", but ig I should take that as a sign

>>939520829
wrong..... watch and learn

>>939520706 (OP)
RESTAURANTS: PERFECT...
RESTAURANTS AND NIGHTCLUBS:
those are the two businesses I make most of my money from painting murals.
both restaurants and nightclubs are always looking for good mural artists.

So I want you to leave your portfolio at home because you don't need it to sell a lucrative mural job...
FIND A RESTAURANT THAT'S OPENING SOON IN YOUR AREA...
walking the door and introduce yourself to the owner... Not the manager..
find the OWNER (again: Don't waste your time giving your spchpeel o the manager, save it for the owner,)
when you meet the owner, looking directly in the eye, and shake his hand firmly as you introduce yourself by saying "Hi. It's nice to finally meet you. I'm the guy who's painting your murals for you"
And don't say a word...
give it 7 seconds..
those seven seconds will see m like an eternity

until he says "WHAT MURALS?"

reply: "I thought you'd never ask!"

to be continued

>>939520888

I hope you're paying attention because I'm investing time trying to help you with the best advice you've ever had

turn around and point at a blank wall and this is where you learn the ART OF SELLING ART....
selling art is completely different than creating art... It doesn't require a portfolio
It requires SELF-CONFIDENCE
You're pointing at a blank wall.
let's imagine it's going to be an Italian trattoria opening in 3 weeks and they are putting the final construction touches too
"I'm picturing a scene from Florence, with a little street cafe and some apartments upstairs with a little old Italian woman watering her plants in the window"
You don't need a portfolio
you ARE The portfolio
You will be demonstrating THE CREATIVE PROCESS

You will be SELLING ART by making your client witness the creative process and get his creative gears clinking.

keep going, "I will make it look an absolutely beautiful, understated and classy, But full of little details that will keep customers busy the more they look the more they'll see"

I promise the client will ask you " can you paint my son riding a bicycle in it? "

or his wife or his dog or something..
to be continued

I used to bring my INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE PORTFOLIO with me as part of my pitch...

But I eventually realized that was heating up 12 or 15 minutes and it was completely unnecessary

because those pictures DID NOT SELL THE JOBS....

Because it was ME they were buying

If they couldn't tell I was the right guy.. then obviously they weren't the right client and I'm not interested in the job to begin with

let them see THE ART 'EXPERIENCE' everybody has waited to experience their entire life but now it's finally happening in front of them

TELL THEM RIGHT UP FRONT:
Art isn't something I turn on and off like a light switch...

I'M THE LIGHT SWITCH and the art is what turns me on

So while I'm working on this job, I will need access overnight so I can do my work without getting in people's way and vice versa

I like to play music while I paint and hell I might even paint naked!!!

(trust me... This is the secret: ARTISTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WEIRD)

Tell your client "I might smoke a joint and play music and take off all my goddamn clothes for all I know but IT'S GOING TO LOOK AWESOME!!!"

immediately get to the BUSINESS:
THE MONEY...

"I always ask for 50% down and that will cover materials in any other unexpected costs. The other 50% will be due for pop completion of the job. It shouldn't take me more than a week but I'm going to ask for 10 days, because there will be a few days I just simply don't feel like coming down here. It's not a light switch I turn on and off"

And you will make more money in 7 days then your friends make in 6 weeks

YOU ARE AN ARTIST
WHO MADE A MISTAKE
THINKING HE SHOULD BE A RESTAURANT EMPLOYEE

(the owner will tell his employees to leave you alone and just let you do your thing)

I forgot to mention:

HOW TO SELL ART TO THE OWNER:
when you're pointing at the blank wall verbalizing your creative vision
HE WILL ALSO START THINKING CREATIVE IDEAS

as soon as he asks you "You think you could paint my wife sitting in the cafe?"

YOU JUST SOLD THE JOB !!!!

now ...... how much do you charge?

ASK FOR TWICE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT

you're thinking $1,500,? good

that means $3,250

50% down
design an artistic unusual contract
(my contracts LITERALLY has a 1st clause: "finished project is guaranteed to look KICKASS!!!"

not joking

I also had another clause that required an extra $300 for marijuana NOT LYING

HOW TO EXECUTE A HUGE MURAL:
simple
draw a really cool finished design on paper, and come to the restaurant at night and USE AN OVERHEAD PROJECTOR TO TRACE YOUR OWN LINES ON THE WALL

then go home and get some sleep
Tomorrow morning you're going to be working on a giant coloring book and making a shitload of money listening to music and smoking pot and DECIDING YOU SIMPLY DON'T FEEL LIKE WORKING TOMORROW... But you okay because you told him you're going to have days that you just don't want to come there

IT'S THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!!!

EXPONENTIAL PASSIVE SALES:

ON THE SECOND DAY OF WORKING ON A MURAL YOU'LL ALREADY HAVE FOUR OR FIVE BUSINESS CARDS FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANT YOU TO COME TO THEIR RESTAURANT AND PAINT FOR THEM

by the time you're putting the finishing touches you will have to pick and choose which of the 27 business cards are the most logical jobs for you to take

You won't be able to do them all

So which four are you going to pick?

>>939520706 (OP)

your mistake has been UNCERTAINT

your mistake has been A LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE

I've done murals where I earned SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in less than a week

>>939521349
ok well i can't paint or draw you old queer

>>939520706 (OP)
>I'm LITERALLY applying to minimum wage positions in places like mcdonalds, bestbuy, target, walmart, applebees, etc
you and everyone else. they aren't hiring and the bitch ass HR dept. will happily shred your resume. if they hire, they lose their job. good luck man i've been doing the same shit with a CS degree and i can't find a fucking thing.

I used a 90 ft boomlift to paint this

it got me in the newspaper
one of many times newspapers and TV news have done 'human interest articles' about me in various cities

(you can go to Florida tomorrow and sell murals just as good as in your hometown)

you are selling YOU.... not your art

YOU ARE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTY

>>939521358

are you OP?......

because I'm giving you AMAZINGLY insightful advice

and you call me an old fag? hahahaha

(you Don't know how to sell art and you don't know how to sell yourself... which is exactly why You're 22 years old and you don't have a girlfriend but I fucked almost 800 women by the time I was 25)

So there's that

DO NOT EVER INTERRUPT ME AGAIN, YOUNG MAN...

I don't care if you know how to draw or paint.. YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DRAW OR PAINT

I have always hired my friends to help me with neural jobs, and none of them knew how to draw or paint

And after doing one or two murals with me they started their own mural companies

because I showed them YES, THEY ACTUALLY DO KNOW HOW TO PAINT AND DRAWING ISN'T QUITE AS TOUGH AS YOU MIGHT THINK

(I'm not sure what kind of person goes to art school that doesn't know how to draw or paint, and has spent 22 years not even wanting to learn how)

let me guess:
You create a bunch of anime looking shit with computers?

genius... Good luck finding somebody willing to pay you $0.50 for a stupid anime picture

>>939521359

>So is everybody else

BECAUSE THEY'RE STUPID.....
98% of humans are stupid idiots

So obviously why waste time trying the same failed pathway everybody else is trying?

I CAN MAKE MORE MONEY IN ONE DAY WITH MY ARTWORK THEN YOU CAN MAKE IN 2 WEEKS AT A REGULAR JOB, Even a good paying job

>>939521531
that's good for you that life turned out good hi five

>>939521531
nah, he's not me (I'm OP)

honestly, after reading all this, I actually might consider it. thanks for the tip.

and sorry about that weirdo, idk what hes on

>>939521575
life?.... wtf? lol

I never said life turned out good for me

LIFE SUCKS.....

>>939521584
oh... okay... good

because you REALLY REALLY need to pay attention, and APPLY YOUR OWN PERSONAL 'TEMPLATE' TO MY ADVICE

I'm not saying 'try to be me' I'm not saying 'do it my way'

I'm saying
ART IS NOT WORK
CREATIVITY IS EXCITING!!
ITS FUN AS FUCK!
I'd do it for free

I WOULD PAY THEM... . see?...

it's not work
and it turns out
NOT WORKING can be lucrative

you'll make WAY MORE MONEY than your friends

it'll also help you learn how to SELL YOURSELF TO WOMEN

or to anybody

WALK IN THE DOOR SMILING
completely confident in your ability
to "PERFORM"
You don't need a portfolio to perform and demonstrate that you are a creative brilliant young man who's very confident in his ability

self confidence

not working is the BEST JOB EVER

>>939521584
don't leave yet I have maybe 5 or 6 more posts SPECIAL just for you

I have to run soon and start my day but I want to show you a couple things Just so you'll get a better idea of this so hold on a minute let me scan through all these goddamn folders and try to remember where I put a couple of these pictures

FOUND ONE!!! OKAY HERE WE GO

there was a tiny little pool hall / bar that didn't need any goddamn mural. they didn't have a big clientele, but I went in there to drink a beer one day and I asked the bartender for a ballpoint pen

And I drew a fast doodle of a shark jumping out of a swimming pool with a sexy lady sun tanning oblivious to the shark about to bite her ass

very corny
A POOL SHARK......
The owner came out to look at it and I told him "I normally charge a lot for my work but this will be fun, so I will paint this on your wall for $1,500. The 50% down will include all material so I don't have to keep bothering you for more materials. And there's always extra hidden costs so the down payment will handle all of that. I won't be asking you for any more money until I'm finished with the job"

THEY DIDN'T NEED ANY GODDAMN MURAL

>>939520706 (OP)
Trump's economy
>inb4 trump fags explain it's actually trannies

>>939521819
it's shouty retard man!!! yay

they sure as fuck didn't need a mural.

I simply made them realize they WANTED a mural

they WANTED THE "ART EXPERIENCE" normal people hear about their entire lives but they never actually get to experience it...

So the next night I showed up with a bunch of pot I had bought with the money, And I used my trusty overhead projector to enlarge my doodle on the wall and I used a medium tip sharpie marker to trace my own lines on the wall

Why you use a sharpie marker:
because sharpie ink contains toluene, which will bleed through several layers of latex paint, a little bit less each time, So even after giving it three base coats and then four top coats, you'll still be able to see COLORING BOOK YOU'RE WORKING ON

get it? You're simply a child playing with a coloring book at this point

Even people that don't know how to draw or paint can handle it once they realize it's basically just a fucking coloring book at this point

I came back the next night and painted it and got the other $750

That was $1,500 in 2 days

GOOD LUCK MAKING $1,500 WORKING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE

>>939521908
if this is an ad for fishtank it doesn't make me interested at all. your larp is gay and played out, fish tank is really boring content, who even watches it? retarded people i assume

>>939520706 (OP)
Recruiter for a small company here.
Any one of:
>Your area sucks
>Your cover letters suck
>Your CV sucks
>You're fucking up the interviews.

Apply for shit outside your normal scope.
Money is all in trades right now anyway, fuck it, apply to be an electrician's apprentice or something, make some real fukken money.
Worst case, get a job in a hotel or something, night work in a hotel usually has almost no competition when applying and the job itself is chill.

>>939521573
what the fuck are you even on about. go to bed.

>>939521954
kill yourself scum

>>939521891

HEY, EVERYBODY... LOOK!!!!!!!!!

I found the linear thinking idiot who's never accomplished anything, but he wants to control other people, And since he's a frustrated control freak, he perceives CAPITAL LETTERING as some form of alleged "shouting"

............ That's strange.....
I bet he also intermittently perceives it as "anger"

If they had italics or bold options in here, I assure you I would be using them for EMPHASIS....

But they don't have those options...
...they SHOULD, But they don't
(see what I just did there? I used caps to put emphasis on the word "should")

That's because I'm an artist
That's because I'm not a linear thinker
That's because I paint with words

And if this loser is so small-minded he allows EMPHASIS to get under his skin? there's no way he's going to be able to handle it out there in the real world

He's a thin-skinned inexperienced Ne'er do well, Who obviously doesn't have a job, which means he can't support himself

He never expected anybody to mention the fact that today is a work day. The weekend is over.. He doesn't have a fucking job

And everybody knows It costs money to live. somebody has to pay rent and utilities and buy the food and PAY THE GODDAMN INTERNET BILL

while he sits on his ass riding the Wi-Fi like his mother is some kind of public library.

And he actually thinks he's earned the right to look down his nose at anybody else? oh my God

LOOK EVERYBODY!!!
I LITERALLY JUST FOUND THE BIGGEST FUCKING LOSER ON THIS ENTIRE GODDAMN WEBSITE!!!

no wonder he can't get any pussy

He's a douchebucket and girls don't like douche buckets

>>939522011
do you seriously type out all these posts? God, I hope not.

>>939522033
nah brah he use spech 2 tex

>>939522011
You need to post with a name.

>>939522033
AI. It's ChatGPT asked to give responses in the style of an overbearing, overconfident idiot with no discernable talent...Dunning-Kruger personified, if you will

>>939521965
>>939522033
Even if he doesn't he still takes the effort to run it through ai, he's actually unhinged, he did the same in some coomer sharing thread the other week and probably does it far more often, guy has issues

>>939522045
it's LOLevis. he's a known shitposting faggot.

>>939522073
You mean "LOLvis"? Then he should post with his name proudly at the top of every post.

So my filters can work

>>939521940

So you are completely incapable of going more than 10 minutes without BLURTING OUT YOUR WEAKNESS?

seriously?.... That's all you could hand? 10 minutes?

I don't give a fuck about fish tank
I couldn't care less about fish tank
I never mentioned anything about fish tank

SO YOU'RE JEALOUS THAT MY SON BECAME A MILLIONAIRE?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE JEALOUS

seriously... I'm glad you mentioned it
because you are about to learn something very valuable

YOU'VE GOT EVERY REASON TO BE JEALOUS OF MY SON...

And in fact... here's a little secret:
A LOT MORE REASONS THAN YOU'RE AWARE OF YET!!!

apparently, You've got a myriad of things to be jealous about regarding my son... BUT IF YOU ONLY KNEW THE TRUTH BEHIND THE SCENES: you'd put a gun in your mouth

because he's got some things happening behind the scenes that MAKE YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF

............... I have nothing to do with his show

He simply decided to make his own rules
and to follow his own fucking path
instead of the path that everybody else takes

He decided to work for himself
He decided to use his creativity to make his own Mark, instead of his sweat and elbow grease to make somebody else rich

AND HE'S A MULTI-MOTHER FUCKING MILLIONAIRE

what video games are you going to play today?

You've got every reason to be jealous of him, A lot more reasons than you know

But soon you will hear about the upcoming projects and That's when you'll stop and remember this conversation and go, "oh fuck! He was right! I'm 10 times more jealous now!"

It's not my son's fault that you sit on your ass and never sees opportunities or create them for yourself

You would need an extension ladder to stick your tongue up his ass

>>939521981
What? What'd I do?
I treat everyone objectively and fairly.
But if you had my job you'd see how many ppl are just actually fucking awful at applying for jobs, writing resumes and who completely fuck up the interview.

Had a girl last week show up to her interview with her boyfriend and drop "he's applying for a job too" at the start.
Had a guy show up who hadnt showered, was wearing a hoodie and stained jeans.
Had another chick instantly fuck up her interview with "Oh I only need a job for 3 weeks"
Had one cunt put his entire CV in the email subject field.
Get lots of people send literal text message job applications (ayo you got work? lmao - sent from iPhone 11)

Then people do straight up illegal shit like putting their photo in the CV, putting their nationality, putting their age etc. Shit that forces me to legally have to throw out their application straight away.

Think of it this way. If I need to hire someone to mop floors, I have to go through 200 fucking emails in my inbox to find a mouthbreather to do it for me.
Shit takes time. No-one really READS the whole resume. We only have time to quickly skim it to check for red flags:
>gaps
>only working a short time for a job
>ppl padding their resume with pointless shit to try and make it look bigger
Keep your shit to the point and easy to read. I dont want a fucking essay on how you traveling in Cambodia one summer changed your outlook on life and uplifted your chakra.

>>939521954

My mother was one THE NATIONS TOP EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS back before the internet shit ruined everything

she worked for dunhill, having never done the job before, and walking in the door simply on a goof, but she was SO GODDAMN GOOD AT UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE AND READING PEOPLE that she instantly started out selling all of the other recruiters.

by the way I'm not making this up
The other executive recruiter corporations actually sent their best recruiters to Atlanta to come meet my mother and listen to her for a little while

as she used to tell me "how can you teach somebody how to understand people? If they don't know how, they never will"

Mom was the favorite of all those Fortune 500 companies and they would always specifically want my mother to be the one to fight the applicant and fill the job for their corporation.. Like big comptrollers and shit like that for huge fortune 500 corporations

here's how my mother got paid:
let's say maybe 3M was looking for a comptroller with a certain amount of experience in something and they were offering a huge signing bonus with a luxury house in the best part of town with the best school and supplying them with two cars and a huge signing package

they weren't looking for just anybody they were looking for top notch applicants and that's why they trusted mom

because she had a knack for find THE BEST TALENT And they knew if she sent an applicant, he was going to be the best

So Mom would make a phone call and she would get a phone call and she'd make another phone call and they would send her $150,000 90 days after

I don't know how it's done these days
But back before the internet Mom regularly made like $150,000 off of three or four fucking phone calls

>>939521965

what am I on about?

That's a weird wording that's generally reserved for British people (homosexuals)

And yes, I just correctly mentioned that all British men are born with a genetic anomaly that makes them effeminate listing limpwristed sissies

swishy wishy-washy limp wristed wash rag effeminate motherfucking faggots

That's why all British women are so hideous and masculine

otherwise British males could never achieve an erection

>>939521325
I'm not OP, but appreciated reading the effort

>>939522045

>You need to post with a name

That's exactly what I'm doing...
..........THIS™
........... is my signature

everybody knows who I am
I don't need to use the name field

anybody could type my name in the name field.......

BUT NOBODY WILL FAIL TO NOTICE MY SIGNATURE STYLE™

And I've been typing just like this since before they called the internet the internet, so you can apply whatever trendy catchphrases you'd like, But they won't apply because LIFE IS NOT AN INTERNET MEME....

You know there's a funny thing about British people that I've always wondered

>>939522196
Yeah now its all semi-automated in app thing, depends on the company. Mine's small enough I still have to manually sift through emails after an app auto-sorts the shit ones out.

I'm with you on people who get paid shitloads to do no work though.
Friend's boss in a hotel in town threatened to walk off the job. She was getting $70/hr in a hotel as a Finance Manager.
They offered her a payrise to $140/hr to keep her and she turned it down.

Its just the world we're in now. The ppl running shit are squeezing every penny out of the economy they can to send to their overseas tax havens and everyone else is having to deal with being shortstaffed, overworked, working 2-3 jobs and broke.

>>939522033

WHY THE FUCK:
Do all British television shows end the same way:

to effeminate elderly men chasing each other around the park bench, and the one in front is wearing women's underwear OUTSIDE of his business suit...

while Scott Joplin player piano music can be heard at the wrong revolution per minute?

If you can research this topic for me...
and give me a presentation this afternoon...

with all of your sources and a bibliography, then I would certainly appreciate it.

because those British people are ALL FLAMING FUCKING FAGHOTS

That's why you can't even name ONE masculine Brit other than Jason Statham

And he only became masculine when he moved to America...

And no, James Bond's not a real person so... yep.. exactly like I thought

YOU LITERALLY CAN'T NAME ONE MASCULINE BRITISH MALE OTHER THAN JASON STATHAM

see? we need to nuke them, before they start spreading their effeminate genetic birth defect thing

>>939521940

see... I'm not saying you're a stupid person... I never claimed you were stupid

obviously.. You've managed to remember to continue breathing and defecating

So that's a start....

But whatever you do:
NEVER PLAY POKER

because you can't hide your tells
You're like an impetuous impatient little child

who can't wait to literally BLURT OUT HIS WEAKNESS

because nobody ever said Jack shit about fish tank

So you brought it up
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON WHAT REALLY BOTHERS YOU

And obviously.....
there's something about my son becoming a multi-millionaire that gets under your skin

would you like to know how he became a multi-millionaire?

HE MADE HIS OWN GODDAMN RULES

And I would suggest once you get out of your mother's spare bedroom (Yes, sassy pants You live under her roof so you follow HER GODDAMN RULES) You can get a little job at McDonald's and after they take out the taxes and you finally had that $141 in your hand.....

then you can finally say you earned one tiny little drop of self-respect


.............. And then you won't have to be jealous of my son anymore

lol
by the way he's been flying people around the world just for the fuck of it

I'm not sure how many people you've 'blown away' lately by sending them to the other side of the world to explore their passions.... But that's exactly what he's been doing dumbass

>>939522344
what sort of jobs have you had?

DEAR OP:

back to you, sir.. today's my birthday and I'm celebrating by going and taking care of a bunch of business I need to handle today

And this is my birthday present to you

So let me wrap this up before I have to take off

YOU WILL BE PAID TO CREATE THINGS YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE....

Never forget that... You're not going to be paid to paint anime on anyone's goddamn walls
(unless you walk into a comic shop today with a very confident attitude and walk out the door with a 50% down payment 10 minutes later. That's your choice)

But there's no restaurant that's going to want anime or anything like that... So go ahead and accept the fact that you will be creating art of things that you don't find very interesting

AND RECEIVING THE DEFERRED 50% IMMEDIATELY UPON COMPLETION OF THE JOB

I took this photograph 26 years after I painted it on a column in a "'50s diner" restaurant in Buckhead Atlanta.

The paint is fading on it... It's 26 years old and it's seen wear and tear because the idiot nigger employees had been using cleaning products to wipe it down for 26 years

I charged $1,200 to paint this on the column

I did four of those columns, each with a different 50s design

which was $4,800 just for those goddamn columns and that only took me a few days

My wife and I took these pictures back in 2012, a full 26 years after I had painted them and I found out the employees had been wiping down the artwork with that chrome cleaner shit for 26 years

hahaha

anyway... ME?.... I would have preferred aliens having sex with beautiful women while Elvis broke an electric guitar over one of the aliens heads

But they're not going to be paying you for what YOU LIKE

they're paying you to be creative FOR THEM

So if they want a goddamn malt shop image that's exactly what you'll give them

another $1,200 and this took me an hour to paint cuz it was an easy one

by the way, I never said of the world's best artist... I'm not bad...

But I never claimed to be the best artist. when did I ever say that?

I don't have to be the best artist to charge a lot of money and have tons of really happy clients that love the artwork and praise it 26 years after I painted it they were still praising it.

That's actually THE MOST IMPORTANT thing I wanted to convey to you today:

You can be an amazing employee at outback or any of those other corporate chain franchise prisons

You can be the most professional courteous dedicated employee they've ever had... And they will never stop and praise you. you'll never be acknowledged for that goddamn wasted effort

however...
If you paint a mural in a nightclub or a restaurant, you'll be a VIP customer and you'll eat for free or drink for free I promise

and 10 years later they will still be telling you "everybody loves your mural they all say who painted the mural and we all tell him it was you"

Do you see what I'm trying to explain?
It's just silly artwork
It's really not a big deal

however... YOU ARE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, SIR

You're not a hostess and you're not a waiter and you're not a goddamn french fry cook

YOU ARE AN ENTERTAINER
Your job is giving people creative things to enjoy and distract them while they eat their meal for get drunk at the bar

This one is different because it's a silly little mural I painted in the corner booth area

I used the corner for a forced perspective, like you were looking down into a 50s diner car

And because these two corner walls were perpendicular, it's impossible for me to get a good flat photograph of both of them. It looks good in person, but in a flat photograph I would have to show you two individual pictures, one of each wall

So here's a quick video My wife and I shot

I'll be back with a still image so I can point out specifics about HOW I CHARGED $12,000 FOR THIS CORNER

I had already been paid $4,800 to paint the four columns (less than a week)

And now I was getting another $12,000

I'll show you the still pictures next but here's the video so you can get an idea

I NEVER SAID I'M THE BEST ARTIST
I'm just really really good at SELLING art

And that's the area of art you are least trained in until today

because you just got four years worth of art college handed to you

https://youtu.be/VCH-h2JXH50?si=JLidK_IepL7mLdor

All the talent in the world doesn't mean a goddamn thing until you know how to SELL YOUR FUCKING ART

You don't sell art to your boss at a job
You sell art to individuals because
YOU ARE YOUR OWN GODDAMN BOSS

okay now you saw it's painted in a corner booth with the corner adding the depth to the forced perspective I created looking down into a '50s diner car

remember I told you GET YOUR CLIENT THINKING CREATIVE?

as soon as the client suggests a creative idea to add to the art HE'S ALREADY DECIDED HE'S PAYING YOU

So go ahead and get him thinking creative with you

This client wanted me to paint his son sitting at the table with his grandparents who he never met

understand? It had a personal meaning to him SO I COULD CHARGE HIM WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANTED

He was a millionaire... I could have gouged him but I only charged $12,000

It's not my best work at all lol far from it It doesn't need to be Michelangelo art

It's simply needs to be something that the customers can look at while they eat their meal and take a pause from talking

no customer will ever complain to the owner "I think he should have put more shadow over there" hahahahaha

IT'S THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!

okay so I painted his son the way he looked at the time (his son is now probably almost 40 years old? 35 maybe? lol

And I painted his parents sitting at the table, And I asked him for pictures of his brother and sister and I put them in there as well

and the soda jerk guy standing on the other side of the diner?

That was his asshole business partner and it was a personal jab at him... Long story

That was Bob Sotis, The business partner of Darcy Messina, the millionaire client who had a wicked sense of humor

He paid me to make fun of his business partner and make him feel like a junior partner

But this is one wall and it represents $6,000 and it only took me a couple days to paint

Darcey Messina was a GENIUS!!!!!
He was actually a multi-millionaire that had exotic large cats at his mansion that were illegal. He took great care of them but it was technically illegal. He had like tigers walking around in his house and shit

his business partner was named Bob and Bob was a whiny little fuck who worried about everything all the time

while Darcy never worried about shit he was always laughing and having fun

So Darcy told me make Bob the soda jerk. let's have Bob be the jerk that makes the milkshakes!

hahahaha

And this wall represents the other $6,000

The best job in the world

DARCY KNEW I WAS FUCKING GIRLS IN HIS RESTAURANT LATE AT NIGHT AND DOING DRUGS

He didn't give a fuck
He thought the artwork was great
He told his employees "Do not bother him for any reason Just let him do whatever he does"

while they had to work for an hourly wage and they had to follow rules and nobody was letting them smoke pot and have sex for $12,000

his employees earned one and a half weeks worth of paychecks when I made almost $17,000

And I broke every rule that exists.

I wrote my own goddamn rules because I was my own boss

and I am about to run out the door and start tackling some business

But before I go I want to leave you with maybe one of the most valuable lessons I ever learned regarding artwork:

I had a personal friend named Alan who was a brilliant mother fucking Jewish business man.. Jews are smart as fuck!!!

That's why they're so good at business. THEY ARE AMAZING COMMUNICATORS

Alan was no exception. He wanted me to paint something for him and he said "You go ahead and paint it and when you're done I'll pay you whatever you want for it"

(PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS STORY BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT)

So I painted the picture, and it looked fucking great! I was really happy with it

But back then when I was young, I always had a problem when it came to getting money out of clients

when I was young, I WAS WORRIED I MIGHT OVERCHARGE THEM, asking too much money, and they would say no and I wouldn't get the job...

and since The value of art is subjective, who's to say what's the correct amount of money to charge?

So I was always worried about going over the limit, And I would play it safe by giving them something I considered to be a good price

BUT THEY ALWAYS USED TO HESITATE..
THEY USED TO TELL ME 'OKAY I'LL THINK ABOUT IT'

fast forward: I've completed Allen's badass painting and I bring it to him and he says "I love it Johnny! how much?"

And I asked a fair price. $750
It only took me a day to paint it, so $750 was damn good money and he could afford it because Alan was rich as fuck

(PAY ATTENTION)
Allen smiled and said "You're artwork is great but it's not worth a goddamn thing!"

And I couldn't believe I heard those words
I was horrified. He just told me MY ART ISN'T WORTH ANYTHING!!!!!

I told you Jewish people are geniuses..

Allen followed by explaining "look, dumbass... nobody wants to brag about the discount they got on their artwork... we want to brag about HOW MUCH WE PAID FOR IT... Your artwork isn't worth anything because YOU'RE NOT CHARGING ANYTHING,! "

Alan pulled out his wallet and handed me SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HINDRED DOLLARS CASH!!!!!!!!!!!!

pay attention dude This is probably the most important thing I could teach you today

unexplaining how somebody TAUGHT ME

And I'm passing Allen's lesson on to you today

as he was handing me 10 TIMES MORE THEN I ASKED FOR.... he explained..
"Your artwork is only worth as much as you say it's worth. And I wipe my ass with $750 Johnny"

hahahaha

and he told me "FROM NOW ON YOU WON'T LIFT A GODDAMN PAINT BRUSH FOR LESS THAN $7,500"

sounded great
But honestly the next art job, I was still kind of scared about asking for so much money

And when they said "how much will it cost?" I gritted my teeth and swallowed and smiled... "$10,000"

and they wrote 50% deposit IMMEDIATELY!!!

there was no hesitating, there was no 'I'll think about it' Like I used to get when I was charging people $700

It turns out Alan was a mother fucking genius

TELL YOUR CLIENTS YOU NORMALLY DON'T DO ANYTHING FOR LESS THAN $3,500 AND THAT'S FOR A SMALL PIECE BUT START AT $3,500...

That 3500 will go a long way compared To what you'll earn applying at fast food restaurants

nobody's ever going to write a newspaper article about the employee at outback, no matter how dedicated he is to his job


YOU ARE NOW IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, SIR. HAVE FUN

>>939523412
see that creepy little ugly weasel guy wearing the baseball hat standing next to me?

That's my best friend Michael
He had never drawn anything and had never painted a goddamn thing in his life.

I split one of my big jobs with him and within 10 minutes He was creating excellent artwork!

He's the ugliest guy I've ever known
AND HE'S FUCKED HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

because he's so goddamn self-confident that it's simply magnetic

He literally doesn't give a flying fuck what you think about him

and women flock to Michael

I'm a fun fact so I'm actually wrapping up your thread while taking care of my business today lol I love this shit

once you sell the first mural, it will be like losing your virginity and realizing "there was no reason for me to be so scared in the first place"

on the second sale, you already be developing your own techniques and patterns, the way a comedian perfects his act by working and editing out certain parts of jokes etc

on the second sale, you already be figuring out how to expedite the process even more

That's why I stopped bringing portfolios

showing examples of my work simply DELAYED ME SELLING MYSELF

on the third sale, you will really be getting the groove of it and you'll realize you two big mural jobs simultaneously

So the fourth and 5th sale will be money that's pocketed at the same time.

remember: ARTISTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WEIRD

That's one of my best sales pitches I use it all the time, dude. trust me it makes the client laugh

obviously I'm weird.. duh.. I'm well aware that I'm weird

So I always tell my clients
"NEVER HIRE A NORMAL ARTIST. IF THEY'RE NOT WEIRD, THEIR WORK IS GOING TO BE BORING"

I say that right up front at the very beginning

That's how I deal with them subconsciously trying to process how weird I am

It's like sales aikido, if you are familiar with aikido

I go ahead and dispose of that topic immediately by mentioning it myself
"NEVER HIRE A NORMAL ARTIST. IF THEY'RE NOT WEIRD... YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY WITH THEIR ARTWORK I PROMISE"

at every time I say it...
It's almost as if I've taken a wait off their shoulders

they laugh and you can see them relaxing

It's really about psychology more than anything

A good salesman simply understands people

YOU CAN PAINT TWO LARGE MURAL JOBS SIMULTANEOUSLY BECAUSE:

before you ever cashed the 50% down payment, you had already explained to your clients; "art happens to me... I don't happen to art... It has to come to me first. I might not show up for 2 weeks.."

Your rules

>>939523697
>I'm a fun fact

actually I said
I'M A PHONE FAG*

And I'm using speech to text which makes typos

yippee yippee several decades ago on this very day, a piece of shit fell out of my mother's vagina

And I've been doing my best to be honest about being a piece of shit ever since

yep. on this day in history, my mother spread her legs In a hospital room, and a shit plopped out

Stole this from FB. No clue how well it would work

MY FRIEND APPLIED TO 57 JOBS. DECLINED 57 TIMES.

No interviews. Just refusals.
Then I uploaded his resume to ChatGPT…
9 replies within 7 days.

Here are the 7 prompts that turned things around:

1 | Rewrite My Resume Like a Recruiter
Prompt: “You’re a leading tech recruiter. Revise my resume for a [insert job role], using powerful, measurable language that grabs attention.”

2 | Optimize for ATS
Prompt: “Make my resume fully optimized for Applicant Tracking Systems. Integrate keywords relevant to [job title] in 2027.”

3 | Brutally Honest Feedback
Prompt: “Give me blunt, unfiltered feedback on this resume. Point out what’s weak, what’s decent, and how to make it compelling.”

4 | High-Impact Cover Letter
Prompt: “Write a persuasive, customized cover letter for [job title] that tells a story, shows passion, and differentiates me.”

5 | Match Resume to Job Description
Prompt: “Use this job description to adapt my resume line-by-line, incorporating data-driven language.”

6 | Fill Gaps with Transferable Skills
Prompt: “My job history has gaps. Rewrite it to focus on transferable skills and professional growth, not gaps.”

7 | Build a LinkedIn Bio That Gets DMs
Prompt: “Create a LinkedIn summary that highlights I’m job-ready, skilled, and approachable, even if I’m changing fields.”

>>939520706 (OP)
There's more people out of work then there are open jobs right now. Say thank you to Trump.

>>939520829
>take that off your resume completely
this. businesses want wage slaves that are easy to control. If you are in community college, that means that you are trying to improve your life. they cant trust you will just sit there shut up and put fries in the bag, when you are actively reevaluating your life plans every semester.