By: Wirrly 

I hate it when the day job interferes with the real career…if you’re an artist or musician or have any dreams outside of your day to day grind you know what I mean.

I have always been upfront with every employer about my painting and gallery stuff and they have always been very supportive. That is until the bosses wife started pitching in (never worked a day in her life but she had just gotten a masters in business from Harvard). They decided that she would take on all the employees’ requests for time off ect. She brought a lot of tension to the office under the guise of being nice.  I had a meeting scheduled with an artist rep she said no, ok I let that go cuz Scott got to meet with her and promote both of us.

A couple months later a big Unveiling was scheduled and I played by the rules and asked for the day two weeks in advance on a day that I knew would be quiet.

she said “no” 

I “banged in” that morning when I knew she was busy dropping the kids off at school.

Had a great time, met the press, made good contacts.

The price; got fired a month later.

SO Glad to have moved on!

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