I analysed this podcast as part of my contest of practice preparation but I felt like there was some good advice here relevant to PPP.
"This is the dirty part of the business that no one ever talks about. All of the other stuff, making art, working with clients, promoting the business, etc, felt easy and fun. But I was in debt after years of careless spending while I had a decent paying full time job. I knew that if I was going to be self employed I needed to pay off my debt and become as adept as possible at managing my money."
- Lisa Congdon spoke openly and honestly about her money issues and it got me thinking about how I am going to manage financially when I leave university. I am fairly good with money but I think now is the time to really start saving so I have a backup fund if things don't go my way. I wont have a student loan to rely on next year!
- Being a student has taught me a lot about managing my money and having had a number of jobs since the age of sixteen, I have learnt that earning is hard work and you're not always doing something you enjoy.
- I think I do need to look into financial issues I may face next year to be as prepared as possible for the real world of work.
Co-owned a shop/gallery - learned a lot of valuable business skills though this process.
- Buying a shop/gallery with one of her friends was Lisa Congdon's way of getting out of a job she didn't enjoy. From this she learnt a lot of valuable business skills.
- Although I am not in any position to do anything like this at the moment, it is important for me to take any opportunity I can to learn about business skills.
- How can I do this? Read books about it. Read online about it. Speak to people who have done it before, my dad for example set up his own business over ten years ago and is self employed.
Connecting with people all over the world at this point in time was easier than ten years previous but not as simple as it is today.
- I am already trying to take advantage of this, although my instagram and facebook has been slack over summer. I could probably make a greater effort with my social media accounts if I gave them more time (for professional purposes).
- Maybe its a case of needing to do more things so there is more to put on them! I feel like I need to keep people engaged with my practice if I want to maintain a steady following of people interested in what I do.
Tipping point - its not one single thing that propels you to success, people start to show and interest and it just grows from there.
- I really need to keep this in the back of my mind all the time. I hate feeling demoralised when things progress really slowly but sometimes that can't be helped.
- However I don't entirely agree with what she says about one single thing propelling you to success. I still think it is really important to take any opportunities I am given as who knows what it might lead to. Maybe saying yes to one thing could be the thing that gets the ball rolling.
You need a strong sense of how much you deserve to be paid - you learn this as you go but having an agent to begin with is helpful money-wise.
- I need to feel lie I deserve payment and that my time is worth something.
- It is interesting what she says about having an agent before entering the creative industry totally alone. I feel like this is something I need to look into as a possibility post-uni. I'm not sure quite how agencies function so it will do me good to read up on that.
Own it as something worthwhile and as something we should be paid to do.
- Don't put myself down so much!
- Work hard to make things I am proud of.
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