Are you creative? poll

Creativity
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Are you creative?

  • Yes I want to do it for a living
  • No
  • Yes but just for fun

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If you already do a creative job for a living, vote the first option

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When i want to do something creative i can’t. So it’s only sometimes

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So just for fun I assume?? Do you know what you want to do for a living? I want to be a writer/musician its my dream. If I only had 1 thing itd be a lot harder but having two things its good.

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I wanted to be a driver(long story short) but this is not creative

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Being self employed, one has to be creative, otherwise it will fail

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Yeah its not creative but its fun! Driving…

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I can relate to my Dad for that. He was self-employed and was a computer engineering guy. Which is science and math but hes fairly creative because he had to be you’re right.

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No choice for “I want to do it for a living, but am stuck doing it mostly for fun”. The best paying gigs when you’re a photographer are weddings, and they aren’t fun, especially if the bride’s mother is present. There’s almost no money in landscape photography, which is what brings me the most joy.

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I used to be creative… not now… i was a good tennis player… holy cow…

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I’m as creative as a robot.

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I just think of the situation of cartoonist Gary Larson (The Far Side). The deadlines were so stressful that, after he’d made as much money as he could, he retired from cartooning (except for occasional galleries) and took up guitar in a rock band. He also talked about working in a music store for a living. He married Jane Pauley and, last I heard, they were living in the boondocks on Oregon somewhere – happy as can be :sunny:

When it comes to labor for me, I’d rather not have my creativity yoked to the big machine. It would become a chore and not fun. Perhaps a science writing job would be up my alley, or a Spanish translating job, or something that doesn’t have my poetry writing in a wringer. Already I do volunteer proofreading for Project Gutenberg, which I really enjoy… It’s just when mullah gets involved that things can get ugly.

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I want that option as well.
I’d really like to be an illustrator, but I don’t have the grades for the education, and I lack the self-promotion skills to do it freelance.
So I just doodle and create things for fun

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I’m a creative person. But traditional creative pursuits like art and music do not interest me. I like watching and listening, but not doing. I’ll only draw stuff when I’m really bored and the closest I ever get to making music is singing and humming to myself.

I feel like this is missing from your poll. You can be creative without making art or music. Many creative people are not interested in doing that.

Also, it really bugs me when people use the word creative only to refer to traditional creative pursuits like writing, making music and making art. It assumes there’s something special about these pursuits that isn’t involved in other professions or hobbies. Creativity is everywhere in the world. Without creativity, there would be no math, no science, no culture, nothing.

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I am not creative anymore. I used to be…

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To be completely honest, I’m actually unemployed on disability. Before my last psychosis I worked as a mechanical engineer for GM in one of their proving grounds, which is basically a test track for prototype vehicles. I’m still technically on the union, or however that works out, but not technically employed for wages per say. Been doing this for a quite afew years, and hopefully one day can go back to it. But I feel a lab environment might be my better option(not so many people in an enclosed laboratory). I also have a degree in Biology, so I suppose I could go either way. I’m also a musician, so my creative side just comes natural I suppose. But some days I do feel like it’s fading out rather quickly

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i am not creative my art is

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I used to be creative, but I’ve lost that as time has gone by

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lmao 151515151515 So darn funny.

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I’ve always been very creative. At first, writing poetry, then illustrating, then short stories (horror), then playing the piano, then composing music (easy listening compositions), then making music albums, then writing my own autobiography. As my first piano teacher told me, “You are a true artist”. And as my second piano teacher told me, “You are an eccentric artist”.