For me, it is not easy in terms of balancing my professional job with my artistic activities.
I wrote this text on the 27th of June, 2025, after two days of working in my professional job (remember, my Dear Friend, I work in a broadly defined finance world), following my two weeks of annual leave. As usual, returning to the office job after a two-week break (during which we visited the Latvian town of Liepaja) was not easy. I had to return to my old routine, and it was not easy. On the first day of my return, yesterday, I didn’t write anything. Both yesterday and today, I did not do street photography and ruck.
Luckily, the weekend starts tomorrow, so I will be able to do street photography and rucking.
For me, it is a challenge to balance my creative endeavors with my accounting job. Frequently, I do not have the time or energy to simply go out and take pictures. Or, I don’t have enough mental energy to write something creative. Nevertheless, the truth is that practically every day, I am fighting with myself for myself. I won’t give up this fight, the fight to create something new out of nothing, by taking photos or writing new texts. It is not a matter of laziness but a lack of time or energy.
Even if I do not have it, I frequently do my best to create something each day, even if I sometimes simply lose my battle. Does it all mean that my professional job is an obstacle to my creative activity? On the contrary, I often wrote that having a professional job outside my artistic passion is a tremendous advantage. Why? It is because it gives me creative independence. I do not create for clients but for myself and people who are willing to seek something unusual in mundane reality.
