Make a living with my creativity

I suppose that I kind of do this already, writing software. (Solving complex problems does require a lot of creativity.) But the scope of it is so narrow – I’d like to broaden it to include my skills with visual arts & the written word.

I have a million idea of starting my own thing. I know I am creative, people tell me that and so did all my bosses but I don’t seem to be creative enough to make it work. Ok, enough negativity now next year is a deadline..!

i sooo want to do this, but it seems hopeless

I don’t know what happened but it was like a switch went off. Something needed to change.
This has been a goal of mine for years, and then one day- I just knew, it was time.
It has been a whirlwind of a month. In the last 3 week I have: decided I need to start my own creative business, found a job- part time so I can support myself but have some time to start my new project, given my notice to my existing 40+ hour a week position and started working on a business plan.
It’s all going so fast!

I love art. Im currently majoring in Ceramics and hope to some day be able to make a living off this. I want to use my art, not only to live and for creative expression but to help raise money for charities and things along those lines. i know its going to be a tough, long road, but I really feel I can do it.

• Musician – I want to start a band (hip-hop,r’n’b,rock n roll, punk)

• Makeup Artist – Alicia Original Expressions. I want to do this full time if i could.

• Stylist – I really want to get into styling models for photoshoots and runways.

• Fashion & Beauty PR – I need to go to LCF so that I can get the relevant info so that I can intern for a while.

Edit:
I also would love to start up my own agency, either in modelling and/or makeup artistry!

I am still trying to figure out how to make a living with my creativity. Basically because I love being creative, its harder for me to figure out how to make a loving from it.. I love fashion, music, art, food, travel, revolution!

There are so many things, i dont even know where to START???!!

Perhaps the New Year will prove I can earn my living by my creativity as true for me.

My only way ahead is to use my creativity to make a future for myself.

People like me and at my age just can’t get real jobs. There is no point working in a menial job, paid barely enough to live on, work ridiculous shifts and being shouted at by some mutant. Employers think you cannot have any skills and are useless. I wish they would look at some of their own staff first.I have a right to be cranky after a decade in the doldrums. I think that is enough to make one jump off the golden Gate bridge.

I once had well paid work, but now with the help of the governments cranky systems I was unable to start the jobs.

Since, I have just completed my seventh children’s book; three are out in the spring. A forth is likely to be doing the publishers rounds shortly called Jo Badpenny.

I only wish I had the opportunities earlier. But I suppose daydreamers often end up writers.

Okay, so with over 200 websites under my belt,, everyone knows how much I love building websites. I total addicted to html and code writing, designing layouts, and writing up long texts. So I’m always on the lookout for new ways to expand my web-craze. Not long ago, a new web-host named Squidoo,  showed up. Of course, I jumped in as one of thier early members. But than when I found out that they were gonna let people build free websites on their network, and than pay you for getting high traffic, I didn’t believe them. I read and re-read their ToS trying to find the “catch” convinced they were a scam, but couldn’t find one, so I set out to building “lenses” (what they call thier web pages, built by members.
 
I’ve been building Squidoo lenses since April 2007. Today I just got an announcment on my Squidoo Dashboard. It said:
 
Payday, Payday! Here’s your Squidcash, earned from 06/01/2006 to 06/30/2006. Congrats, and keep up the great lenses.
 
OMG! My first payday from Squidoo! I can’t believe it! My lenses are actually making money! When I first startede doing this and I read that you could make money doing it, I laughed. I built my first few lenses just to see if I realy could make money by shareing info on my hobbies, but I didn’t think it’d work. As I got going, I quickly got addicted to building them, and now I’ve got about 40 lenses. I’ve been haveing so much fun here, that I didn’t even think about the money part of it any more. In fact, I forgot that I had come here to try to make some extra money! LOL! Than today they send my first pay-day to my PayPal account.
WOW! I’m making money for doing something I love doing! That is so cool! Granted it’s no get rich quick thing, they don’t pay much. But hey, every little bit counts. So far I haven’t heard of any members making more than $50 a month, and most seem to be makeing closer to $10 a month or less.
There’s on guy over there, who says he’s gonna build lenses until he’s either built one million lenses or made one million dollars, which ever comes first. Last time I checked he had over 400 lenses! WOW! He says he’s got a pretty steady income coming in from it, but he hasn’t told us how much he makes. I wonder if I’ll ever get that many on my account. You know, I prob’ly well. I mean, I’ve made 40 of them in 5 months, so in a few years I should have quite a few! LOL!
Well, it’s a start anyways.
 
So, now I’m wondering, are any of you guys on Squidoo? If so, send me a message or comment with a link to your lenses. I’d love to read what you guys have to say over there.