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3.3.2013 New Year!
12 years ago
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Commissions: Hiatus - | - Request: Hiatus - | - Tumblr - | - Ask Me Anything Hey, I completely skipped journals for the first two months of the year. So sue me X3
Anywho, this is the first journal of the new year which is usually where I post my resolutions and such. Well, not this year. Sounds a bit lazy, feels a bit depressing, I honestly can't think of new ones that I'd be willing to share. Sorry folks. ^^;
████ The Story Thus Far...
So, The story seems to repeat itself. From about mid to late October, my job picks up and my time in the furry community goes down to almost a nonexistent stage. I'm only left with IRC and Skype chats with friends, if even that. Well, this year was a lot worse, getting absolutely screwed every which angle, between customers and management. Only instead if Mid-October, it was early July. My only other coworker applied for a higher position and he was hired right before the weekend I left for Anthrocon. I was able to sneak in one more sketch request set before I was put on hiatus, due to being understaffed. By understaffed, I mean I was the only one in my department again, and no one was hired until Mid November (Which is when we are supposed to have a fully trained staff in all departments for the seasonal rush, even before night shift starts.)
I guess it's more of a rant at this point, but I'll sum it up as best as I can. Management sucks. In this case, this is the order. Understaffed, trained way too late in the season, finally have a full crew, got overlooked for department lead, overstaffed, and now just tired of the whole damn thing. First world problems, the only plusside is that I still have a job. Wondering when who's getting the axe because we're running out of work at this point. Even full times like myself aren't exactly safe. There is no such thing as job security these days.
████ Working on...
I've actually gotten back into drawing again, thanks to TFF2014. Few free sketch request were done and I wanted to get them scanned but my scanner is a bit outdated. I'll find a way to get them up. In the mean time, you can take a peek at them on my tumblr account @ http://ryanfawks.tumblr.com/ . I'm also going to get those few sketch request back out too. My tablet is still glitching a bit on me, dual monitors and it keeps saying that it's drawing on a 3200 x 900 resolution instead of 1600 x 900. I want to expand my art a bit as well, including starting to take extremely cheap commissions and stuff.
Apart from that, I'm working on becoming more independent as far as stuff in my personal life goes. Insurances, taxes, educations, yada yada yada. I do have plans but nothing is written in stone. As it is, I'm playing it by ear. I want to get a lot of this done before June or July as well.
████ Wrap it up.
Apart from that, there's not much else to report on. I want to thank all the new people for watching and I hope they like what they see in my gallery. Thanks for reading my rant/journal, hope to post one more before the end of the month. ^^;
Oh, P.S. I'm going to actually work on reposts from other artist (With credits of course.)
P.P.S. Yay! I got Thursdays off again. What does that mean? Higher chance of being able to start up sketch request again!
Anywho, this is the first journal of the new year which is usually where I post my resolutions and such. Well, not this year. Sounds a bit lazy, feels a bit depressing, I honestly can't think of new ones that I'd be willing to share. Sorry folks. ^^;
████ The Story Thus Far...
So, The story seems to repeat itself. From about mid to late October, my job picks up and my time in the furry community goes down to almost a nonexistent stage. I'm only left with IRC and Skype chats with friends, if even that. Well, this year was a lot worse, getting absolutely screwed every which angle, between customers and management. Only instead if Mid-October, it was early July. My only other coworker applied for a higher position and he was hired right before the weekend I left for Anthrocon. I was able to sneak in one more sketch request set before I was put on hiatus, due to being understaffed. By understaffed, I mean I was the only one in my department again, and no one was hired until Mid November (Which is when we are supposed to have a fully trained staff in all departments for the seasonal rush, even before night shift starts.)
I guess it's more of a rant at this point, but I'll sum it up as best as I can. Management sucks. In this case, this is the order. Understaffed, trained way too late in the season, finally have a full crew, got overlooked for department lead, overstaffed, and now just tired of the whole damn thing. First world problems, the only plusside is that I still have a job. Wondering when who's getting the axe because we're running out of work at this point. Even full times like myself aren't exactly safe. There is no such thing as job security these days.
████ Working on...
I've actually gotten back into drawing again, thanks to TFF2014. Few free sketch request were done and I wanted to get them scanned but my scanner is a bit outdated. I'll find a way to get them up. In the mean time, you can take a peek at them on my tumblr account @ http://ryanfawks.tumblr.com/ . I'm also going to get those few sketch request back out too. My tablet is still glitching a bit on me, dual monitors and it keeps saying that it's drawing on a 3200 x 900 resolution instead of 1600 x 900. I want to expand my art a bit as well, including starting to take extremely cheap commissions and stuff.
Apart from that, I'm working on becoming more independent as far as stuff in my personal life goes. Insurances, taxes, educations, yada yada yada. I do have plans but nothing is written in stone. As it is, I'm playing it by ear. I want to get a lot of this done before June or July as well.
████ Wrap it up.
Apart from that, there's not much else to report on. I want to thank all the new people for watching and I hope they like what they see in my gallery. Thanks for reading my rant/journal, hope to post one more before the end of the month. ^^;
Oh, P.S. I'm going to actually work on reposts from other artist (With credits of course.)
P.P.S. Yay! I got Thursdays off again. What does that mean? Higher chance of being able to start up sketch request again!
