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Liz Kohler Brown

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Sitting in a frigid office, answering my hundredth customer service email of the day, it hit me: I had officially failed to become a full-time artist. I had spent years of my life and thousands of dollars obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree, but somehow ended up as a customer service agent, making art “on the side,” which entailed nothing more than a few hours a month of uninspired sketching.

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Sitting in a frigid office, answering my hundredth customer service email of the day, it hit me: I had officially failed to become a full-time artist. I had spent years of my life and thousands of dollars obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree, but somehow ended up as a customer service agent, making art “on the side,” which entailed nothing more than a few hours a month of uninspired sketching.

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