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Working: Getting Rid of the Art You Create

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler help a lister whose collection of homemade fused glass is getting out of control. The listener, named Todd, has already tried selling his art and giving to away to friend , but his collection keeps growing. June and Isaac offer creative solutions that will allow Todd to keep creating without being overwhelmed by clutter. Do you have a question about creative work? Call uss and lease a message at 304-933-9675, or email us all working@slate.com Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Check out Remote Works here: https://link.chtbl.com/remoteworks?sid=podcast.WORKING Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Working Over Time, the bi-weekly advice-focused

0:54.1

mod to workings all in the family. I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:58.9

And I'm your Maureen Stapleton, Isaac Butler. I want to sing now. I don't know which one to sing

1:06.6

because all of those spin-offs are the best tunes. So June, what are we talking about today?

1:11.5

Isaac, today we have a really fun listener email and it comes from Todd Piantedosi, who won me over

1:22.2

by making an additional inquiry about stationary etiquette, but the meet and potatoes question

1:27.7

that we're going to chew over in today's episode is going to be read by producer Kevin Bendis.

1:34.0

I have a hobby called fused glass. So, the medium is an important. I love to make pieces which,

1:40.6

in my case, are relatively small, anywhere from 8 inches by 8 inches to 12 inches by 12 inches.

1:48.2

But what does one do with all the work one continuously makes? I have given all of my family and

1:55.0

friends pieces over the dozen or so years I've been fusing glass, so that line is played out.

2:00.5

I tried selling them on two different websites and it cost more to advertise than any sales I made.

2:07.0

At this point, I'm actively not pursuing this hobby because I'm trying to rid myself of what I have

2:12.1

and making more pieces would only add to the problem. First rule when one is at the bottom of a whole

2:17.3

stop digging. I want to emphasize that this is a hobby. I don't need the money. Frankly,

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