[Michael Fournier]

Well, Susan, I picked accountant for the very reason that it is at the opposite spectrum in job security to artist. It is the very essence of a safe career, and schools actually think, as they teach you, that you will get a job as an accountant.

But on the other side, no one feels an artist's job is secure, nor do schools teach the business side of art (part of the problem).

You would think from the way art is taught that we were all idle rich who just want to make art for art's sake, and don't need to care about selling, or that we actually want to starve, and by doing so, the pain will help us create better art before we die.

I think it is great you have both a business sense and a talent for art. I made it all the way though to calculus and pre-engineering courses in trade school and was a helicopter crew chief (repaired turban engines) in the army for 3 years. So I do not think being a left-brain thinker leaves you out of being able to comprehend math or scientific studies.

I wish you all the best, and you sound like the type that can succeed. It takes relentless self-promotion to make it in this job of Artist. Unlike engineers and accountants, no one is knocking on your door to offer you a job. But rest assured, being an artist is a job, a full-time one (even if you have another job to pay bills), that can make you enough money to live on. And can even bring in so much money, you need to hire an accountant to help you invest all the extra money.