I completely agree that you can be multiple things at once. The key, IMO, is identifying a common thread—without one, it’s easy to feel scattered or in crisis.
For example, an interior designer who takes on freelance clients, writes articles about modern design, and builds their own modern furniture has a clear throughline. Each pursuit complements the others rather than pulling them in different directions.
I struggle with this too. For me, it’s been this need to be “legible” so that other people could easily understand the potential value I provide. In other words, simpler, cleaner labels got me to my bag faster. But now, as I reinvent, idk how important the bag is and therefore idk how important legibility is either.
I fw you Jesse. Your story and your work. Feel as if I'm in a similar boat as you being a graphic designer, co-owner/content creator of clothing brand, while being in film school. I really don't know what I want to fully pursue, I'm just hoping they all work out. Your perspective helps me realize it's okay to not know and to do what your heart tells you. After choosing film school over graphic design I feel like my skills in graphic design haven't progressed like they would if I was all in on it. But I think that's okay because I've learned so much about filmmaking and now I feel as if I'm a bit of a swiss army knife. What I take away from your article is that I don't want to label myself, I want to create what makes me happy, afterall it just makes us more versatile to be able to branch out, and I think it's in God's and the universe's hands after that.
I feel this in my soul oh my god 🙃 The need to label ourselves is indeed really strong when all I know is that I feel compelled to create, in a variety of forms. And sometimes that need to find a label that fits me turns into me trying to fit into a label. Maybe I could say that I'm a creative but truth be told maybe "creator" would be the better word.
I completely agree that you can be multiple things at once. The key, IMO, is identifying a common thread—without one, it’s easy to feel scattered or in crisis.
For example, an interior designer who takes on freelance clients, writes articles about modern design, and builds their own modern furniture has a clear throughline. Each pursuit complements the others rather than pulling them in different directions.
I struggle with this too. For me, it’s been this need to be “legible” so that other people could easily understand the potential value I provide. In other words, simpler, cleaner labels got me to my bag faster. But now, as I reinvent, idk how important the bag is and therefore idk how important legibility is either.
I fw you Jesse. Your story and your work. Feel as if I'm in a similar boat as you being a graphic designer, co-owner/content creator of clothing brand, while being in film school. I really don't know what I want to fully pursue, I'm just hoping they all work out. Your perspective helps me realize it's okay to not know and to do what your heart tells you. After choosing film school over graphic design I feel like my skills in graphic design haven't progressed like they would if I was all in on it. But I think that's okay because I've learned so much about filmmaking and now I feel as if I'm a bit of a swiss army knife. What I take away from your article is that I don't want to label myself, I want to create what makes me happy, afterall it just makes us more versatile to be able to branch out, and I think it's in God's and the universe's hands after that.
I feel this in my soul oh my god 🙃 The need to label ourselves is indeed really strong when all I know is that I feel compelled to create, in a variety of forms. And sometimes that need to find a label that fits me turns into me trying to fit into a label. Maybe I could say that I'm a creative but truth be told maybe "creator" would be the better word.