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That's the kind of attitude I admire CF.
I'm tired of hearing teens saying they really love something and they really deserve a break because they'll work really hard. Put the work in beforehand. Be prepared to start small. If you love something you'll pursue it whether it's paying you or not.
We get some graduates who come to us expecting work. When they are given a little, so we can suss out their reliability and work ethic, they complain that it's not really what they want to be doing. They are skilled in x, y, z and we have them doing the artistic equivilant of making the tea. They don't understand that talent only gets you so far. Turning up and being willing to work for other people to start with gets you much further. There might be a few outstanding genuises who walk straight into designing whole projects, and running their own events, but that work is mostly given to people with 20 years success in the field, because you know they won't call up one day and tell you that they're going to Ibiza to work in a bar this summer.
We do get good, young, new artists of course.
I'd be willing to bet the ones who want it all now won't be working in the field in 10 years time.
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