The Constant Need to Update Validity
The Constant Need to Update Validity
As a creative, it seems like there's a constant need to update validity. By this, I mean to keep giving people new creations to prove that you can actually do it. It's a weird psychological thing to me that when someone listens to music on my site, because I don't have Hawaiian music or example, they might not think I can write Hawaiian music.
Partially this makes sense to me, but on the other hand, it seems like Producers are needing to protect their job, and the money from a given project while I need to protect my time and value. Here's an example of a piece I wrote a few years ago to update my reel because I didn't have enough Romance genre in it. Gosh, it might even be time to update it again.
It will always baffle me at least until there's a better solution for it.
Not all Creatives Operate the Same Way
I have found that I am extremely adaptable to musical genres as a composer. I've written Irish jigs, jazz pieces, pop music, huge orchestral scores, and EDM. What I find the most incredible thing amongst all creatives as mentioned above is the fact that we always have to be proving our capability and worth.
This is a really odd thing when you think about it in a different perspective.
Do you have to make your dentist prove he can do his work every time you come into his office? Or do you trust he will do the job right?
Not all creatives may be capable of doing the job right, and it makes the medium uneasy, but same goes for any other career.
Someone might Photoshop images better than another person, but some surgeon might be better than some other surgeon at the same type of surgery. But there's a certain respect and trust that comes with surgeons vs all creatives regardless of training level.
Steemians, do you have experience with this on either side (producer or creative)? Let me know your thoughts/experiences.
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Just did. @danrem
I feel you on this. If I don't get a post out Monday through Friday I feel like I'm not living up to the expectations. Whether those are just the expectations I placed on myself or imposed.
I actually had someone ask me to send my post from today because they thought they had missed it. When really I only posted it a few minutes before.
Nice post <3
@jrswab Agreed, however a day missed on here does give a sense of guilt. In a larger sense of getting work as a creative, you definitely experience this with producers every single project.
My view to creative arts is that it is generally build up from nothing, or at least it is expected more or less. Nothing can be put into a process, and logic is not part of the job. That is the obvious reason to me that creative professions/work/artists do have to proof themselves more than non-creative 'workers'. While professions that has more or less fixed procedures and the end result is determined, eg fix a new heart into a body, it boils down to being able to execute the fixed procedure. How good someone is, can be determined by the number of times that person done the procedural steps correct. In any profession, people are measured, when going into surgery I ask for the best one. In the end, good and not so good can be (much) more easily determined in non-creative professions than in creative ones.
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Don't you think that this aspect of validity can be erased by being active on Steemit?
I say this because it feels to me that when you are documenting the whole creation process of something that is really coming from the heart, this could really be interesting piece for the Steemit community to see (aka upvote the shiz out of you ;) ).
So it could potentially mean that you wouldn't have to prove yourself to anyone anymore and just do You and be paid for that. Which in itself would be a way more valuable experience :)
Just my two cents!