So many of you who have been following my life and the progress I’ve made relocating to Los Angeles, will know that I’ve recently acquired a job at Guitar Center. 

Needless to say, this has cut into my own time a lot, seeing as they’ve been scheduling my very regularly. 

Now here comes the funny part.

I hate it there. A lot.

I’ve been very unhappy working there. Surprise? Well not really. We all hate regular jobs where we have to respond to the man or do something that we find goes against our own standards of living. 

2015 was a year where I got to realize the power of listening to your own intuition. Doing what your gut tells you to do, and not what you think is practical at the end of the day. This may be a dreamers method of thinking, or maybe even the thinking of those who make a difference in their lives and others. 

However, forcing myself to think this way has done wonders for me. Whether or not my decisions have brought me to a better place is questionable, but I will openly and proudly admit that I am my own person, and if I don’t fucking like a job I’ve thrown myself into, then I won’t stay at that job.

That being said, I’m quitting my job at Guitar Center to pursue my artistic talents full-time. 

I believe that with my own willingness to succeed and be my own boss, that I can survive off of what I do best. I may not have the biggest following for what I do (we’re hovering in at about 600 followers on this blog and 250 on QTDolphin), but I see real potential in what I can turn these blogs into. 

I want to provide the best content I can for you all. That means I’ll be taking way more commission work, I’ll be getting a Patreon together for those of you who want to support my work outside of my regular commissions, and I’ll be getting ready to fuse all of my projects so that they can be recognized as one artist, but separate entities.  

This also means that I will have to start organizing my work into my own business. I will have to start filing taxes differently, I’ll have to consider hiring an agent (possibly we’ll see about this) and I’ll be writing up my own schedule for my work. This also means I’ll be considering doing convention work as well. Merchandising can definitely be a possibility. 

In any case, I really wanted all of you, the biggest and most important role in all of this to know. This is something I’m going to finally take a shot at. My life has lead me to moments of struggle and strong trials of my own strength. I consider this one of the biggest risks I’ve ever taken. Surviving off of my own work. 

So to all those who have supported me in the past and continue to do so, thank you and I would be honored to have you all stick around.

And to those who casually look on this blog, I hope what I create can satisfy you as much as it satisfies me. 

Thank you for sticking by me.

And let 2016 be the year that everything starts to come together.