The Long Road to a Career

The Long Road by J. Finchum

     An art career is a long road. You start out on a rocky dirt road, but over time you come to a paved road. The ride gets smoother and you travel on that road for quite awhile. Eventually you come to an unmarked intersection, and whatever road you choose will take your art career in a certain direction.
     
     So you pick a road, and travel down it for awhile, and the scenery is great. Then the small road becomes a highway with a lot of lanes. You start to notice that there are a lot of exits along the way. So you take an exit you think you might like and it takes you to a new highway that goes in a new direction. Sometimes you miss an exit that has great potential, but you're afraid to get lost, so you don't take it. Then sometimes you take the wrong exit and have to find your way back to the highway. The further you get along the choices get harder, and its hard to know which exit to take. Sometimes you get on a great road, and sometimes the road is rough and it just seems like you're going in the wrong direction.

     After awhile you get to the point where you wish you could go back to that first intersection and go the other way with the knowledge you've picked up on your travels.

-Tim Gagnon

Brilliant words