Virgil Warren

Coming up... Gotta find new traditions, I guess.

I don't know.

Maybe that's what it'll be.

We'll be doing gig work in the future, and I'm ahead of the game.

I would consider myself a working artist.

I'm also a bartender and a cook.

I am currently at my apartment in Brooklyn with my cat, Monchichi.

I had originally spent my entire life in the Bay Area.

But then COVID came around, and my family kind of splintered away from the Bay Area.

And just not really understanding what my next step would be, I applied to all of these graduate programs in New York.

I got accepted into NYU.

I got a master's in studio art, and I wanted to move into the art world in New York.

And since then, I've just been kind of working my way towards getting there.

Navigating the job market post-graduation has been an interesting task.

I have to accept any job that is available to me, even if it's not necessarily the job I thought it was going to be, because there's no sense of consistency.

There's very few full-time positions.

A lot of these positions, they don't like to go over 31 hours a week because then they would have to offer health insurance or benefits of some kind.

And even then, you're stuck with this weird thing where you have less hours, but it's still about too many hours to work other positions.

I find the more that you can hit the actual people who are posting these listings directly, you get a much higher response rate.

I get a lot more job opportunities off of Instagram and Craigslist than I do anything else.