You missed Franz Kafka. He toiled at an insurance company and hated it. He's work a full day, then write another eight hours.
@pebblecups
5 жыл бұрын
This week, after yet another put-down, another rejection, I came so close to throwing out all my drawings. I was going to give up and walk away. Struggling in my day job, minimum wage cleaning, I have had my hours reduced well below the point at which I can support myself. My drawings and artwork don't make any money and my greetings cards sales don't cover their own listings costs on etsy. I figured after all these years it was time to quit. Yesterday, I sat there for an hour, staring at a blank page. Doing nothing. Nothing came out. I had lost all inspiration and enthusiasm for my artwork. Thank you TopTenz team for making this video. I won't give up just yet. Maybe I will take a break, but I won't give up.
@elpeluca7780
5 жыл бұрын
The moment someone makes drawings, paintings, music, just to sell, it stops being art. Not saying it's your case though.
@omfug7148
5 жыл бұрын
T.S. Eliot worked as a bank clerk for at least a decade (then became a partner at a book publisher) despite becoming one of the most famous Anglo-American poets of the 20th century. Maier is particularly interesting, her photographs are the real deal, she had an artist's eye, she never sought fame and took the photos for her own satisfaction, it was sheer luck that someone found them who could appreciate the artistry of them.
@nelsonchereta816
5 жыл бұрын
Emily Dickinson anyone? Her family and friends never even realized she was a poet until after her death.
@figthorn
5 жыл бұрын
My heart sank once when I read Alan Moore mention his day job in an interview. I was like, if Alan Moore has a day job, clearly there is no hope for me.
@christelheadington1136
5 жыл бұрын
This is why I tell people to hold to my paintings,so they can get rich, when I'm dead.
@dahlilance6087
5 жыл бұрын
I look forward to these every day.
@kevinbrislawn5918
5 жыл бұрын
As an Artist I had some boring jobs.. I had to or I'd starve!
@AwesometownUSA
5 жыл бұрын
you shoulda starved. makes for better art. stay hungry!
@Kenxclout
5 жыл бұрын
My day job is to post jokes, but I got in so much debt that I cant even afford my electricity bills. it is the darkest times of my life!!!
@jaredquinney204
5 жыл бұрын
Don't give up on your dream
@christineparis5607
5 жыл бұрын
YOU'RE BROKE?! I've got a hamburger on layaway at Burger King....
@Lmillertekdok
5 жыл бұрын
Ken Fulton {Baby Elder} How shocking!
@remdog1138
5 жыл бұрын
This is why you're doing so bad. You give them away for free! 🤣
@rorycampbell7360
5 жыл бұрын
Very droll.
@annettefournier9655
5 жыл бұрын
Always sign your art prominently. You never know. Art is subjective after all. Look at Grandma Moses!
@bxbank
4 жыл бұрын
Yes. To be honest I'm not sure why she got so famous.
@LePrince1890
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony Trollope eventually was a very successful novelist, but for years worked in the British postal system - supposedly inventing the mail box. You could also include Conan Doyle, again eventually a successful and famous writer, but was a doctor for years. Also Gerald Manley Hopkins, a Jesuit Priest who proved to be a major poet (but was not famous until after his death).
@malcolmross7967
5 жыл бұрын
Jeff Bloomfield Thank you for bringing up Anthony Trollope!
@sock2828
5 жыл бұрын
I was not at all expecting to see Don Dohler on this list. He was one of the best b-movie auteurs to ever live.
@diannadiatz1140
5 жыл бұрын
Dear Simon, Could you do a Biographic about the woman photographer mentioned in this film? She would be a fascinating subject. Thank you for your consideration of this idea. Best wishes, Dianna
@theadhouse
5 жыл бұрын
one of my favorite videos you've ever produced... inspiring
@sherrimakesstuff3112
5 жыл бұрын
Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez was awarded with a Doctor of Humane Letters from Wayne State University in 2013 (he apparently has a philosophy degree from 1981). I was there in the front row amongst my peers awaiting the ceremony to get my Masters in fine arts degree. It was a monumental and emotional moment. You could see he was visibly moved. He used the moment to address us graduates and encourage us to follow our passions. It's an experience I will never forget.
@spacecatboy2962
5 жыл бұрын
i love sixto;s music, great guitar player
@washkabe9179
5 жыл бұрын
Simon Whistler's boring day job? He's a barrista
@ccmonty
5 жыл бұрын
I really hope they do a top 10 list of names Simon has mispronounced.
@chribbe
3 жыл бұрын
Love it that in my related feed here I have "Inside the mind of a master procrastinator" and "New Zeeland´s lost Hippy Commune"
@Babarudra
5 жыл бұрын
Many well known authors and musicians have had to hold day jobs and sleep on friends' couches, some still do.
@AwesometownUSA
5 жыл бұрын
some of em need to get their own place :)
@elpeluca7780
5 жыл бұрын
Some? I'd say most, since most art is underground
@RAlanBryan2112
5 жыл бұрын
GREAT VIDEO! EXCELLENT INFORMATION
@sarahton1n
5 жыл бұрын
I love you. But I've never heard anyone pronounce Chinaski as, Chin sicky. lol stop.
@jackconnelly4525
5 жыл бұрын
Yes! I know many talented artists and tell them , don't quit your day job, or your art.
@blakeconroy2187
5 жыл бұрын
Great list, but no Kafka?
@Vsure420
5 жыл бұрын
I played a guess who game with my phone yesterday. I wad thinking of Simon. It figured it out but I had to turn off my parental lock before it would tell me LOL. I love this channel.
@MRayner59
5 жыл бұрын
Surprised you didn’t include Henri Rousseau, the post-impressionist painter who worked as a customs official and because of that is often referred to as Le Douanier Rousseau.
@rogerking7258
5 жыл бұрын
Where's L.S. Lowry?
@shelleynobleart
5 жыл бұрын
This is so exciting. I loved this video!
@13Kormoran
5 жыл бұрын
Bukowski's pseudonim and alter ego was Henry CHINASKI.
@acetate909
5 жыл бұрын
The Anvil documentary is amazing.
@JamesBrown-ux9ds
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much - impressive! And you seem to be having started looking a little bit tired, bored, exhausted, disgusted and depressed because of an overdose of your daily presentation job. But you made up with the time and ended in the usual spirits. Our first thought was maybe he should have some time off for a vacation. We would not like to loose him here soon, he is precious. But anyway, thank you for your service!
@thomasandersen5822
5 жыл бұрын
Mediocre, dull or even boring jobs lets ones mind roam free, might even be a catalyst for creativity.
@kaninma7237
4 жыл бұрын
Einstein developed the papers published in his 'miracle year' of 1905 while working as a patent clerk. This included the development of special relativity.
@vicentenevarez1754
5 жыл бұрын
My job is to look for a job
@troyschulz2318
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's pretty much the norm.
@jaredquinney204
5 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@jimhouston3450
5 жыл бұрын
Please do more excerpts exactly like this. It is the human condition, at its very best, and at its very worst, that bring us here. As tour guides go...I find you knowledgeable, and easy to understand. BTW you seem like a relatively normal person. Just when I thought there were none left.
@tonywalton1052
2 жыл бұрын
5:50 Pulp was published in 1994 not 2004
@antiisocial
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting stuff
@johnhardin4358
5 жыл бұрын
Did somebody mention Chinaski? Charles Bukowski wrote some classic works while he worked in the US Post Office. He wrote a book about it which I bought recently but haven't found time to read.
@schizoidboy
5 жыл бұрын
I find this inspiring.
@toobviewer
5 жыл бұрын
Surely Maud Lewis deserves a mention. The Canadian folk artist lived in poverty helping her husband peddle fish door-to-door. Mostof her artwork was sold for a few dollars or less.
@robertwilloughby8050
5 жыл бұрын
And L.S. Lowry was a rent collector.....
@ericbartol
5 жыл бұрын
3:51 - I thought you were about to tell us that the drummer blew up!
@npjensen0311
5 жыл бұрын
There’s also a brilliant writer in Australia called Gerald Murnane. He would fit well on this list.
@monzackmyrkur
5 жыл бұрын
There should be more mecenas around the globe. In the meantime let us mantain our day jobs.
@Hollylivengood
5 жыл бұрын
You didn't include Clive Cussler? You're kidding. He started his writing career for something to do while his wife was working the night shift. His stories were just offshoots of the adventure stories he told his kids at bed time. He says he still writes what people tell him they would like as a fun scenario.
@bxbank
4 жыл бұрын
There's quite a few people they could you a biographic on.
@rudolphmantoothbanksy5143
5 жыл бұрын
Awww!!! I see a wedding ring....figures.
@507dannyfe
5 жыл бұрын
You should check out movies made by Winterstate Entertainment. Their movies are amazing 🙂
@samanthavaldez1533
5 жыл бұрын
please do another one and add Alice Neel
@sandymckenna9727
5 жыл бұрын
Maybe one day. We will be recognized as artists 😂
@kevinbrislawn5918
5 жыл бұрын
I teach art and get paid for it!
@Christinebanks11
5 жыл бұрын
Speaking of anvils , where do all those come from that falls on those cartoon characters ? Who carries and anvil and thinks to themselves , "oh I'm going to drop this thing on some ones head !"
@GFSLombardo
5 жыл бұрын
Samuel Morse was a painter and an inventor (the modern telegraph), He never had a boring job.
@AwesometownUSA
5 жыл бұрын
This list is pretty Kafkaesque, isn’t it.
@AgeingBoyPsychic
5 жыл бұрын
TOO MANY ADS! don’t get greedy
@beagleissleeping5359
3 жыл бұрын
Many feel that the food service industry is a boring dead end job. Dead end? Quite often. Boring? Not at all! Why just this evening we had an angry customer throwing her order at our drive thru cashier because something was made wrong. 👍 fyi the cashier isn't the one who made your food, but they often incur the wrath.👎
@NotHPotter
5 жыл бұрын
No mention of Hunter S Thompson?
@cristian.ilie.018
5 жыл бұрын
It's Henry Chinaski not Henry Chin - Sicky !!!!! In 2004???? Bukowski died in 1994 !!!!!
@TheCrusaderRabbits
5 жыл бұрын
T.S Eliot. Banker
@jgw5491
5 жыл бұрын
Let's see if Joseph Cornell is on the list....Nope. Too bad. He was a wonderful artist who made "assemblages" of collage, shadow boxes, and boxed items, plus collaborated on several movies. He spent most of his life working at small sales jobs (difficult since he was so shy), in a plant nursery, and designing textiles. And his main job was looking after his brother who had cerebral palsy. Try googling his images, you might like them.
@elpeluca7780
5 жыл бұрын
Basically 99% of artists? Art is a hobbie, not a job
@kaninma7237
4 жыл бұрын
With a sufficient UBI, those who wanted to pursue art full-time would be freed to do so; and society would benefit.
@steviecherry943
5 жыл бұрын
I adore bukowski
@AndersPuschel
5 жыл бұрын
Chi - na - ski. Henry Chinaski.
@henkbarnard1553
5 жыл бұрын
what about Joe Cocker?
@tetrapharmakos8868
5 жыл бұрын
Chi - nah - skee
@carlmankert3846
5 жыл бұрын
well, I guess I'll keep making art then.
@Hykje
5 жыл бұрын
Sadly the guy that made the documentary about Sixto Rodrigues, Malik Bendjelloul committed suicide.
@jimgoss731
5 жыл бұрын
Bukowski used the name Henry Chinaski, not Henry Chinsiki!! Please do your research, especially pronouncing names correctly!!
@dannywoodzy1569
5 жыл бұрын
Shoutout
@joeennis2571
4 жыл бұрын
who ?
@shellnet411
5 жыл бұрын
I am a award-winning artist published poet had my artwork in a national magazine I’ve never left the country barley been off the East Coast of the United States and I Work a normal barley above minimum wage job im trying to write a cook book
@Mii.2.0
5 жыл бұрын
#1: Justin Y commenter.
@pamelamays4186
5 жыл бұрын
There's hope for us Boomers yet!
@lilwaffle3824
5 жыл бұрын
YOOOO
@Dr_Do-Little
5 жыл бұрын
Not a word on Spinal Tap? Rubbish.
@Scumdrops420
5 жыл бұрын
Bukowski used the name Henry Chinaski, not Henry Chinsiki
@summerbrooks9922
4 жыл бұрын
You are a rapid fire machine gun talker. SLOW DOWN. Please. Many who listen to you are not native speakers of English.
@chrisnemec5644
5 жыл бұрын
Considered one of the best pagan musicians of all time, Gwydion Pendderwen worked a low-level job at the IRS between releasing his two LPs. (Approx. 1976-1981.) Sadly, Gwydion died in a car accident in 1982.
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