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Those of you who work - what is your job?

illustrated.lady

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I suppose I'm looking for some inspiration.

In what is a familiar story for many, I am completely burnt out from my work, struggling to cope in an office environment and really just feeling at a loss of what to do. 

A bit of background on me for anyone interested - I'm fairly intelligent and well educated (BSc Psychology and Criminology, MA Sociology - graduated 2018) but I have never been able to transfer this over to the workplace, I have ended up off sick with stress/anxiety/overwhelm in every job I've had and the longest I have lasted in any job is my current three years.

My jobs have included - 

Food service

Retail

Care (elderly, dementia, mental health)

Call Centre

Medical reception/admin/secretarial (current job)

I have worked all hours from 12 hour days, 12 hour mights, 9-5, full time, part time, zero hour contract. I always end up burnt out. 

Ultimately, I have to work and ideally full time. Office work is a struggle because there's people there, constantly with their smells and their noises and their conversation. 

As much as I loved elderly care, I think my sense of justice made it too difficult to overlook the poor management that understaff care homes in order to make as much money as possible. 

I just don't know what to do, I don't need to find a dream job, I just need something I can do and go home and not feel like all my energy has been drained. 

Any ideas, comments, suggestions, all are appreciated.

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  • I'm a computer games animator. So I've studied movement and expressions for the last 20 years, maybe a reason I've been so good at masking all this time, even from myself. Joy(This is different from feature animation, I do a lot of loops and cycles and movement sets). Though my speciality is creature stuff, as it overlaps my nature interest. I can also cover a tech animator role and I really got into python a few years back. I also work from home so I don't have to deal with other people apart from a few meetings.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Hi    Study of movement and expressions turned into a career with correlates for masking.  Similar for me.  :-)

    I spent a lot of time exploring human movement (including biomechanics) and interactions from a Western"biopsychosocial" perspective and Taoist philosophy and arts mostly providing insight into postural changes associated with emotional sets.  For me this turned into a career in physiotherapy.   More interaction with people fro me - a mixed blessing...

    Can I ask where you draw your studies for the models of movement and expression you use in your art please?  I find this especially interesting :-)

  • in reply to Phased

    For reference, it depends on what the anim is. For runs etc. just finding a video of someone sporty running, and creating a clip to analyse and step through frame by frame to work out what's happening. Otherwise we might video ourselves and push the poses, weight shifts, arcs if it's something like an idle. I have Richard Williams book, the Animators Survival Kit, and in uni we had a talk by Ed Hooks and have his book Acting for Animators. There are tons of resources on the internet too. Plus mirrors, I don't have alexithymia so I'm okay with pulling faces.

    Plus I've worked with motion capture data, which is working with an actors motion. So moment and gestures is something I'm really aware of and find fascinating!

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Jolly good   :-) please let me know what you make of them :-)

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