Found this bit from ‘F You Money, & Don’t Release Your First Font,’ which on a surface level doesn’t really apply to me since I’m not a designer, but holy moly, I’m glad I kept reading (and a nod to Nina Stössinger for RT’ing it in the first place here):
No matter what you’re interested in, the world will not know how to help you unless you scream from the mountaintops what it is you like to do, and how you like to do it.
James Edmondson
In recent years I got a lot of people asking me what I do, and I’d usually inhale and list a bunch of things, from email marketing to website updates, some audio and video work, writing, transcribing, content strategy… zzzz… quite a pitch, right?
Now?
I work with independent music publicists, managing their websites, social media, and back end operations.
Like James says, “the world will not know how to help you.” The world didn’t know how to help me out when I just did “everything.” Now that I know what I like to do, the world and I are now good friends.