Job Satisfaction

8/6/14
9x12 collage on paper

Job Satisfaction

Completed after a long day at work, the simplicity of today's collage doesn't do justice to the steps it took to get there. 

Struggled with lack of inspiration on finding a subject matter that might inspire me after a long work day.  

Took a lot of trial and error with color and texture, and three different layers of material, to get to a background I could live with.  

Felt some frustration at the fact that the work wasn't turning out the way I envisioned in the beginning.

Persevered through multiple temptations to just set the collage aside and start over fresh with something else tomorrow.  

No one's making me make collages at night, after all.  Why do it on a day when I'm struggling and inspiration's not coming easily?

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Uncanny the way that Art imitates life sometimes.

Day 333 Pearls of Satisfaction

Day 333 Pearls of Satisfaction

333:365

08/29/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “My job brings me great satisfaction.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Make a unique trophy.

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine and catalog photos, Mod Podge, Tissue paper

Time:  45M

Comments:  Today's affirmation is one that can be challenging to believe every single day.  One of several symbolic images in this collage that represent my job is the oyster opening its shell to reveal a pearl inside.  
I love that beautiful pearls are made from a simple piece of sand irritating the inside of an oyster.   

Day 156 Survey says

Day 156  Survey says

156:365

03/05/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I love myself; therefore, I work at a job I truly enjoy doing, one that uses my creative talents and abilities, working with and for people I love and for people who love me, and earning good income.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Work only with toilet paper tubes and/or paper towel tubes today.

 

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine photos, Mod Podge, Zots, Cardboard bath tissue roll

Time:  1H:20M

Comments:  The background data in this collage is partially from a satisfaction survey that Contract Magazine published recently on professional Interior Designers.  I found it interesting that 83% of the profession is made up of women.  Yet, salaries for women in interior design are 70% of what men make.   Go, America!?!

The irony in this survey is that even though women are making less money than men in the field, 84% still report that they are happy with their career.  Women must not be measuring satisfaction in terms of dollars only.  Perhaps the work described in today's affirmation doesn't equate to the highest salaries, but to greater satisfaction in the long run?    

I'm hopeful that someday we, as a nation, get to a place where the gender and salary are not correlated.  And if that day doesn't come, I'm hopeful that someday I find the job that where the work is so satisfying that the pay rates are not something that stands out in my mind when I read survey results like this. 

 Link for more info:   http://contractmag.hotims.com/r5/search.asp?action=search&return_by_category=y