The Constant Need to Update Validity
As a creative, it seems like there's a constant need to update validity. By this, I mean to keep giving people new creations to prove that you can actually do it. It's a weird psychological thing to me that when someone listens to music on my site, because I don't have Hawaiian music or example, they might not think I can write Hawaiian music.
Partially this makes sense to me, but on the other hand, it seems like Producers are needing to protect their job, and the money from a given project while I need to protect my time and value. Here's an example of a piece I wrote a few years ago to update my reel because I didn't have enough Romance genre in it. Gosh, it might even be time to update it again.
It will always baffle me at least until there's a better solution for it.
Not all Creatives Operate the Same Way
I have found that I am extremely adaptable to musical genres as a composer. I've written Irish jigs, jazz pieces, pop music, huge orchestral scores, and EDM. What I find the most incredible thing amongst all creatives as mentioned above is the fact that we always have to be proving our capability and worth.
This is a really odd thing when you think about it in a different perspective.
Do you have to make your dentist prove he can do his work every time you come into his office? Or do you trust he will do the job right?
Not all creatives may be capable of doing the job right, and it makes the medium uneasy, but same goes for any other career.
Someone might Photoshop images better than another person, but some surgeon might be better than some other surgeon at the same type of surgery. But there's a certain respect and trust that comes with surgeons vs all creatives regardless of training level.
Steemians, do you have experience with this on either side (producer or creative)? Let me know your thoughts/experiences.
