I’ve been trying to have a look at how to change gears in my life, perhaps checking out a new line of business. Here I’m trying to see if I can make it in the music business or in the illustration business, and so far it is a slow start-up figuring out how to create a name for yourself as an independent artist in these areas. But I’m still opting for those two.

But just in case, I need to see if I can find a line of business where I may have a chance of getting a 9-5 job, so I don’t end up becoming too poor in the near future, so I was thinking about entering the gaming industry, since I have many interests that can be combined and used in that manner, and I’m also an avid gamer to add. Plus this business is booming here in Denmark, and I like what it has to offer in terms of using my creative abilities.

What troubles me is that it is very hard, if not impossible to get a chance, you know, to start up and maybe be educated, when you’re in your thirties and don’t have paper on any kind of specific advanced education, and I’m afraid that not only goes for this line of business. I’ve tried to apply for a couple of jobs in the game business, as a sound designer and concept artist, but got rejected because I don’t have any former experience.

Luckily, there is some schools you can enter, here in Denmark, but one of them will not accept that I haven’t got any post-high-school education, and the other costs a small fortune to enter. But I have been working with IT and multimedia for eight years, twenty-three with music, and twenty-six with drawing & painting. But that doesn’t seem to count at all. I might not have the talent for it, but if no one is going to test me at all, discarding me only because of the papers or experience that I haven’t got, how the hell can I ever find out if I am suited for this business or not?

I know why this is so, on a practical level. Schools like well-educated people because they don’t want sleaze-balls to enter and businesses like experienced people, because they have to make money. But how about giving people just a small chance once in a while? Not only because they might end up with a person, who might be good at it and as a result is more engaged than the average person, but also because you give that person a chance of figuring out if it’s the right way to go or not. Instead, you end up looking like a goofy question-mark and don’t know what steps to take next. I’m not only bitching about this for my own sake, I’ve also seen this happening to other people and it saddens me.

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