How I Balance a Full Time Job with Side Hustles as an Artist

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How I Balance a Full Time Job with Side Hustles as an Artist

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Жыл бұрын

Previously I made a video about how I make money as an artist in 2022. Today I'll share how I manage my time and balance those multiple careers. First, I'll walk through my habits that I developed over the years and then I'll walk through how I literally structure a week in my life.
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@arurora5474 Жыл бұрын

Lol you have so much energy, after my 9 to 6 animation job my brain is fully out of commission. Good for you I'm so happy you can do it. To anybody else reading this: it's not your fault if you can't do what Michelle does. Sure organisation helps but there is also different level of energy that each person has in a day. I did have a schedule like that once and I was not doing ok at all. Don't feel like just because someone else is capable of it you should to. Everyone's different.

@tebhernandez Жыл бұрын

Go to the gym

@arurora5474 Жыл бұрын

@@tebhernandez i do, it's not enough for me to have the MENTAL energy to work on creadive progecys for 12 hours every day. Energy is not only phisical. There is also creative energy, if I have to squeeze my creative juice for 8 hours then there is not enough left.

@lawrencelopez9839 Жыл бұрын

what she does is also the product of discipline, passion, good habits, and repetition. Yeah, people aren't expected to do everything at her pace and I'm sure she also has days where the routine doesn't happen but it's not a bad idea to start building habits in that direction.

@arurora5474 Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencelopez9839 i was not commenting to shame her or something. I just know for a fact that organisation is not the solution at all unless one takes into account their own body and mind. I feel like it's important to remind everyone I can that you are not a bad person if you don't manage to overextend yourself like this working even on the weekends. It's ok to be normal and not an over archiver like Michelle, again, good for her, but it's ok to just exist sometimes.

@waitingonamonabel Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. I have ADHD and I keep being told "form habits" "be organized" when it's literally the thing my brain is weakest at. I still try and keep trying but it's nice to have a reminder that being weak at this doesn't make me a failure.

@berrymix3521 Жыл бұрын

Yea. From the last video about the job and the side hussles, this is exactly my question bc it sounded like a one-way ticket to burnout. Glad we're getting a video about the time management behind all the amazing work you do!!

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

I am glad and hope this video helped in some way!!

@SillverBel Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely the path to burnout.

@tamuanimations Жыл бұрын

This is really useful specially when I’m trying to do KZfaq while working on my shortfilm and also trying to keep up with school literally almost had a mental breakdown doing homework

@MissKayanYeung Жыл бұрын

i need a morning routine video cuz dang gurl, 6am to start work?! my routine takes a good hour to fully get myself awake and ready for the day 🤣🤣 side note: COMPLETELY agree with working from home. it used to take 4 hours total out of my day to commute to/from work and honestly I thank the pandemic for stopping that nonsense

@tamuanimations Жыл бұрын

This is really useful specially when I’m trying to do KZfaq while working on my shortfilm and also trying to keep up with school literally almost had a mental breakdown doing homework

@maryeggness Жыл бұрын

such a smart way to organize your schedule! I love that you left a good chunk of time for "doing what you want" i think that is so incredibly key to preventing burnout (along with the time for exercise!)

@marylayeux5741 Жыл бұрын

This video couldn't have released at a more perfect time, I just reduced my hours at my day job so I can kickstart my tattoo art career but I was going crazy trying to figure out how I could juggle the two. You answered many of my questions and gave me motivation, thank you Michelle!

@christinaimarialvarez8411 Жыл бұрын

As an animator who is finally getting traction in my own field, this was very insightful on time management. I really enjoy your videos, as they are informative and insightful. Keep up the lovely work!

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Thanks i really hope it helped!!

@glaceyawn Жыл бұрын

Michelle, I've been watching your content for years and I think that me and other subscribers share the sentiment that we just really love the videos you're making now. It's especially helpful to me because I'm looking to pursue animation/art as well. I know this is technically your second job, but still thanks for putting this information out there, it's really useful!! :D

@j.l.5095 7 ай бұрын

Wow! I hope you really take care of yourself, sounds so much work. My full time job is sucking up so much energy, I could never add so many hours on top, that’s the hard part, glad it works out for you! Stay strong and healthy ❤

@followingthebabysteps4545 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this! Showing the weekly schedule is so helpful

@Adrianna-Weeks 7 ай бұрын

Great video! This makes me feel motivated. I'm usually so burnt out with my day job that I'm unable to do my side hustles but hopefully these tips will help me in the long run.

@jessicahvoice7545 24 күн бұрын

Thank you for this video. It really brings home how good i have it with my current day job (which starts every day at noon) i have sooo much time in the morning that i am wasting right now because im so hell bent on being a nightowl.

@ahmerrycah2707 Жыл бұрын

I've been wanting to create again but have been overwhelmed with how to manage my time with my day job, thank you for making this!

@tamuanimations Жыл бұрын

I would say just start to create, although it might not be the best advice just do what you want for a little bit then try and catch up with actual things. This is video was really useful specially when I’m trying to do KZfaq while working on my shortfilm and also trying to keep up with school literally almost had a mental breakdown doing homework.

@whifling Жыл бұрын

No.5 is the most useful for me. Thank you! I can get up early now but still can't make myself do less appealing tasks in that extra time.

@Lilikoi505 Жыл бұрын

Just wanted to drop by and say how comforted I feel when watching your videos. Lately I’ve been so confused in terms of making art in general and hearing u be so transparent and just talking about how you’ve been able to navigate life as an artist is what I rly needed to hear 😭

@moosequeen Жыл бұрын

I come back to this video at least once every week, sometimes my brain finds it so hard to concentrate so this productivity video gives me a lot of motivation and energy! Thank you meesh for your amazing videos!

@LisaNaniOfficial Жыл бұрын

Appreciate you doing these insightful videos Meesh ❤️ I recently had to put my storyboarding career on hold and get a 9-5 boring office job (needed something stable to pay off the quarantine debt). Been really trying to get back on my side hustle grind and this time management video is on point ✨️✨️

@gabrielamendes2207 Жыл бұрын

This video is game changing for me. I've been struggling with time management on my side hustles and this helped me to visualize how to do it. I hope that now I plan better my time and hopefully, won't be so tiresome.

@arkanimation9833 Жыл бұрын

Your schedule is stuffed but the money and fun activities you can do with the money is totally worth it. Some people from a local animation studio came by and chilled while my professor held an extra help session and I thought they were so cool and down to earth. Do you ever get so excited about a project you can’t wait till they open the window for talking about it? Does that feeling fade? I finished watching Oni last night, great work!

@ineventuality4349 Жыл бұрын

This video is incredibly helpful. Even if someone doesn't have multiple projects going on, pretty much everything in life can be considered its own category that can be fit into this list into some way. I hope to be able to develop my own proper routine and start committing to it. Thank you for your advice as always :)

@sjzhang5500 Жыл бұрын

This was really helpful, thank you for making this! I've been really enjoying your videos lately!

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Thank you im so glad!!

@CelloBows Жыл бұрын

This video was insanely helpful. Thank you for sharing!! Where does caring for your cats fit into your schedule? I have to spend around 2-3 hours a day for my dog because he's elderly (but happy and healthy!) Also, It's good to see being productive does not have to come at the cost of taking time off for yourself. I think that's why I burned out - I was pushing myself 7 days a week and ultimately injured my hand.

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Haha i guess for me taking care of my cats is always apart of each event in my schedule 😂🤣 every time im doing any of the things mentioned in the schedule there are always moments within them im playing, petting, feeding them! In fact they jsut sit on my lap half the time i work too 🤣

@mrsbebeeledger Жыл бұрын

this is so helpful! I am also a content creator, own a photography business, going back to school for an ART degree, and teach dance 15hrs a week! Whew it sounds crazy typing it out like that!

@MariJadeWrites Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video explaining how you manage your time :) it helps a lot to see how it looks like

@maybeimacat3183 Жыл бұрын

omg im starting a fulltime job right now and really needed a guide since I study as well, thank you so much!!!!

@orpheus6398 Жыл бұрын

I miss your videosssss! I've been busy with school lately preparing for college. Glad you're back to doing more videos in this style!

@bettyszwagierczak4062 Жыл бұрын

Love it and all the advice! I've started full time illo job earlier this year and found it super difficult to juggle other projects and stay motivated (plus I got two kids so waking up at 6 am is actually my normal ^^'). Thanks for sharing your schedule!

@eighthsun Жыл бұрын

A Productivity Flag! Great video, I never thought about switching the similar activities to one day. Thank you!

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Yeah i realized i deplete more energy when i do too many unrelated things in the same day so it helps me for sure!

@syurjevic 5 ай бұрын

I would love to hear how your family and life factors in this. Marriage, children etc. love the video.

@violetfolgi Жыл бұрын

this one was super super useful, thank you!! love from Argentina 🥰🇦🇷💜

@thegreenlua552 Жыл бұрын

Thank youuu !! this is so useful to me! I noticed that I don't feel as motivated by Wednesday but I never planned around it :D definitely going to take a good look at my schedule now and perhaps emulate yours a little :D thanks again!

@CircleofPharaohs Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for this insight you really are a dope person for showing this process some of us need to see how it’s done to do it ourselves Thankyou again

@TerraCorvusEntertainment Жыл бұрын

I always try to get a more strict plan, but then it always falls apart XD But etleast I am able to plan out one week at a time.. sorta. Sometimes things happen, that were not planned, and it throws me completely off. 😅 Thank you for the video. It is always nice to get some inside on how other people doing those things.

@nachamarquez2392 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your week plan with us 😃✨

@moonpaperr95 11 ай бұрын

Can you do a video abt marketing strategies for ur online shop? Thanks so much for this one ❤

@kafalotofeao462 Жыл бұрын

This is so helpful, thank u! I love making schedules it's just actually starting anything is my issue 😭 it's like, how much can you prepare for it to be enough? What's the most appropriate thing to post for optimum engagement? It's questions like that that I dwell on too much that stops me from doing anything rlly. Perhaps I have to set due dates for myself and post whatever I've planned by the end of it? Or present different models to myself? 🤣 I'll make a compelling ppt with different costumes and present it in a board room of mirrors 🤣 funny, but not funny 😭 cri. Ok, essentially I'm an overthinker. Gotta figure this out. But, thanks again for the lovely video ❤️

@TheDrodder Жыл бұрын

Damn, this video is AWESOME!

@obara7366 Жыл бұрын

I'm catching up ti the videos I missed during the hectic fall semester and this is the 3rd video I'm on of a "this is a continuation of the previous video" chain, and looks like I have to go back one again. No one to blame but myself, LOL.

@jessicahvoice7545 24 күн бұрын

Are drawing/anatomy studies included in your schedule anywhere? Or maybe part of a morning routine? Thats the one thing that always screws up any schedule i try to do. I end up using up all my energy in warm-up figure studies before starting work on my comic. Perhaps doing those on a day where i dont work on my comic at all would be best.

@luisponceart Жыл бұрын

Oni was great! Congrats !

@specsNsarcasm Жыл бұрын

Appreciate this video 🌻✨

@usubenidango Жыл бұрын

This helped me so much! Thank you

@dioksazin Жыл бұрын

A really helpful video for someone doing double major and having a work lol I’m just mad I can’t schedule things perfectly because my classes are scattered throughout all day

@Salmonwentmissing Жыл бұрын

I started my career in storyboarding this year, not knowing that the local industry had JUST wrapped up multiple projects at the time and that there was a project vacuum; aka there's no work. I honestly thought I was the problem for being too niche until I learned this last week. It kinda sucks that its SO MUCH more project-based and unstable, but I guess having multiple projects really does run in the storyboard-world (having 2 comics in the making myself)

@fuzzydragons Жыл бұрын

I full admit I am horrible at juggling job projects with other projects or life stuff, really really need to start making a schedule and stick to it

@delshadayin1547 Жыл бұрын

i do a lot of things too, im an art teacher, i worked on a magazine, i do illustration and my personal proyects at the same time U_U

@zeofawcett 6 ай бұрын

Great schedule, but quick question: when do you do your chores? I always find this so hard to fit in!

@Brujitaloveskurama Жыл бұрын

I didn't knew I was struggling with the third advice t.t cooking meals are kinda time consuming too for me

@kennetheilen8818 Жыл бұрын

"Done is better than perfect." Omg yes!

@dojikkofugawara1185 Жыл бұрын

I hope i will have that lifestyle in the future. I want to work as ilustrator/storyboardist ;w;

@yumicoy349 Жыл бұрын

Loved the visual of your schedule! Im an avid google calendar user and often schedule similarly, but I do wonder how do you make sure you don't overwhelm yourself and burn out from working all the time?

@adamangeles9570 Жыл бұрын

Woah, i have tried a schedule, but living with my family doesnt allow for much so most of the time I wake up at 5am to do my own thing before 6am before work

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Thats great if you get some time to yourself in the mornings!

@adamangeles9570 Жыл бұрын

@@mewTripled thanks for answering! You keep pushing foward so I'll do it too! Thanks for the advice

@ChamssAlandalus Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video Plse the backgroud musuic is not leting me focus in what you saying So many noise Thank you again

@lettucecat3538 Жыл бұрын

im sorry but i felt so tired and nauseated from this sched....its just not possible for me when i think about it, thanks for sharing ur management skills might look into how i use my time in a day to figure something that works but may i just say ur really built different even if im not capable of this yet i admire u already

@OtherwiseUknownMonkey Жыл бұрын

THIS IS AN AMAZING VIDEO TYYY but also i have a question: switching between so many things in one day, plus job which is 8 hrs long, how do you sustain so much mental activity without slowing down a little

@Kimmieziven Жыл бұрын

I have 3-4 meals a day , homecooked This is hard to manage with 2 jobs

@Strawberry.12peachice Жыл бұрын

First

@fluffipups Жыл бұрын

You just trolled me with that "30 years ago" lmao. I thought it was a glitch 💀

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

Lol thanks!!! 😂

@fluffipups Жыл бұрын

@@mewTripled THAT WAS YOU?! BAHSJ I've been trolled again! x'D love your videos queen ^^

@whateverlikeda Жыл бұрын

What about hobbies? ;____; or just living life…outside of work : (

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

friday nights, weekends! it's already difficult to plan with friends / fam on weekdays since everyone works already,/ but of course there are still exceptional days where a weekday will be planned in advanced for living your life. i personally don't feel like i've lost those aspects even with this schedule? again this is just what works for me

@user-nu1gd4kk8h Жыл бұрын

girl you like..............wake up at 6...........each morning................like..............................................................

@mewTripled Жыл бұрын

you know what i think it is -- it's a mix of anxiety and the fact that i sometimes feel like i never truly changed timezones from NY since i used to live there X''D idk i just am naturally more of an early bird too i guess...LOL

@BillieB. Жыл бұрын

🥰❤️😋

@abad-enoughdude._.3919 Жыл бұрын

Do you have a family?

@brittanyjoson3630 Жыл бұрын

Great video! This makes me feel motivated. I'm usually so burnt out with my day job that I'm unable to do my side hustles but hopefully these tips will help me in the long run.

@denden6575 Жыл бұрын

Good luck buddy!

@fevval7958 Жыл бұрын

Hello mewTripled! I really appreiciate your video. It's given me a lot on insight on how to improve my implement concepts into my own schedule as an animation student. Again, I always enjoy hearing about your experiences in the industry. Thank you!