⭐Life Update 2: Electric Bugaloo⭐

Yooooooo hey everybody! In my last journal I left a bit of a life update about some of the things that had been stressing me out and, as a result, effected my art. I have another update about some extra things and the effects on art and how I will handle things going forward, although not as depressing as the last journal.
There is one thing I had left out of the previous journal, and that's that I had been told of the chance to be promoted to store manager at my current job. I immediately began stressing out about it because I knew I would have to have more hours and responsibility. I knew that taking a job like that would make managing my goal of going full-time with freelance art much more difficult and I would definitely have to take a break from it for at least a little bit so I can get a feel for how much time I would have to do art on the side. It wasn't a for-sure thing though so I figured I would wait and see what happened before I planned further.


Today I met my area manager and in the meeting she brought up that she had heard that I was interested in the position and questioned me about how I would feel taking it on. The meeting ended with the decision that the current store manager would be moving to a different store to manage and that I would be taking over my current store sometime before the 15th of June. This still isn't totally -FOR SURE- because it requires the current manager at the other store to step down, but it looks like this is the most likely scenario.


I am still slightly torn because I have been working so hard towards this art goal for about 2 years now, but with my current financial situation I absolutely cannot turn down the opportunity. I am not getting by with my current pay, and I can't actually take commissions because my queue is still full. In fact, I keep having to do YCHs and taking emergency commissions because I am falling behind so much financially.


So where does that leave everything? I'm still working it all out currently, but I think my plan going forward will go something like this:


- I will continue working on the commissions I owe on the side. I do not know how long it will take, but it should not slow things down any more than they currently are with me having to take up emergency commissions which eventually delays my queue anyway.


- After my queue is completed, I am going to take a break. I don't know how long it will be for, but I cant imagine that it will be for more than a month or so, if even that long. (And Ill most likely still be doing personal sketches and junk between stuff, I really cant go that long without drawing anything at all lol)


- From there I will make another plan to figure out just how long it will take me to get to my goal of full-time freelance commissions. I will also probably start taking a small queue of commissions here and there, I love working for you guys and I know quite a few of you are still wanting to get some art from me, so I don't want to keep you waiting too long if I can help it at all  💚


I think that's probably most of what I wanted to update you on. I know this isn't exactly convenient for the people who are waiting to get art from me, but I need to do something about my financial situation and continuing on like this is only hurting me, my spouse, my roommate, and you guys as well because each YCH or emergency commission I need to do in desperation only pushes back me opening commissions again further.


I hope you all can understand, and I am thankful each day that I have your support. I really couldn't ask for a better set of fans and friends, and I promise that I will make it all work out just fine~