Thread:Neildown/@comment-1427879-20150428150929/@comment-1399757-20150504063615

It's not a bad job - but it gets old after awhile. If I'm going to spend most of my time away from family though, I'd like it to be spent on more than minimum wage doing the same things every week. Air force would be a good step up and help me in areas I'm lacking (leadership skills, time limits). Thanks for the offer too - I've actually got a big queue of people to talk about it with now, as I have several friends & relatives who've been with the AF for awhile.

That would be amazing - not many people appear interested in that kind of work nowadays. I'm certainly no expert in that field, (and in fact I'm not especially great with kids either, though that's another thing I have to work on for whenever I become a father/husband) but it definitely takes special character for that kind of work - even just to consider it really. Also, getting paid to draw is kind of exciting, but also a bit stressful, since there are deadlines, when starting out one may have to undersell one's self, and of course there's always that unknown factor of whether or not payment will actually happen. I actually haven't been paid yet, because I'm in the middle of completing the commission and no official contracts have actually been written either, but it's going good so far.

I will certainly keep your advice in mind when getting on Wordpad again. I suppose it's mostly being worried about turning out something silly or illogical - looking at all my bad ideas seems to have the effect of convincing me that I have a lot of bad ideas, but that's probably just a fact/sentiment that needs to be overlooked to arrive at good ones.

Sure - that can be found on my userpage http://holt5.deviantart.com/ or directly from here - https://thecredenceofdragonsandmen.wordpress.com/. It's kind of a mishmash though.