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Shadowflash

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2. I hear ya!

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 11:59 AM

Sep 2012

I'm sitting, right now, in my cubicle in white collar bank job wishing I could be working on penciling the 60 (or so!) page graphic novel I'm drawing.

It would be so nice to do more than a panel a night here or there and, maybe, a page on the weekend. If I didn't need my (really good) healthcare and such. I'd be drawing full time. I can even quit my job and make an equivalent amount just drawing but not enough to pay for my own health insurance on top of it. With a wife and a 9 year old, I can't really let that go.

As much as the repukes talk about being business friendly and being good for the entrepreneur, if we had single payer, I'd probably be working for myself right now.

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I sit in my cubicle and I want to draw... [View all] Javaman Sep 2012 OP

Yep. rrneck Sep 2012 #1

I hear ya! Shadowflash Sep 2012 #2

I look at single payer health care as freedom. Javaman Sep 2012 #3

I'm sure you're right Shadowflash Sep 2012 #4

Draw whenever you can Javaman! Steerpike Sep 2012 #5

I just retired early from my cubicle job -- it was soul-sucking, too. For the past 20 years I have Nay Oct 2012 #6

When I can't do my art, babydollhead Oct 2012 #7