If it was more money, I'd take the job and sadly wish cosplay goodbye. But I have turned down shit jobs because they wouldn't let me cosplay.

I've also told jobs that a condition of my hiring was that I would get con weekends off, no questions asked.

For jobs I took in college, I would pick and choose ones that didn't impose crappy schedules on me last min.

I remember one time when I was working at Walgreens, I was scheduled ALA weekend even though I told my manager a month in advance that I would be taking it off. He said nope, someone asked 2 days ago that he needed that weekend off so you're on. I told him I asked him a month ago and he said yes so I don't know what this shit is about. I told him he could schedule me but I wouldn't be in. I ended up quitting 2 weeks before ALA because my manager kept bugging me about it and saying how it would affect my review.

But I think any post graduation job that leads to a career, I would sadly have to just suck it up. Maybe rearrange my schedule so I could cosplay to 1 or 2 cons or not take any vacations ever so I can keep up my con going. But if I really had to drop cosplay and cons, then I have no choice. Cosplay is just my hobby, not my life.

There's always a way to balance things I enjoy. It's also funny how that now I'm in a job that I enjoy, even though I'm working more hours than my previous job, I feel like I have a lot more time for cosplay. But it's really just a matter of perception and not coming home exhausted and hating myself (kinda kills any motivation).

And if a job really demanded that much time, I think I'd need to re-evaluate my priorities because no money is worth the time I'd be missing with friends and family (nevermind cosplay).

>>4818263
What kinds of jobs, if you don't mind my asking. I just can't imagine most shit jobs caring (unless you needed a holiday weekend off).

I know teachers and other professionals who cosplay and it doesn't interfere with their professional lives (but they also don't flash their tits or do anything they wouldn't want their students to know).

>>4818302

When I work, I'm often a "weekend warrior" and often end up not getting weekends off for months on end. I've worked at several institutions for special-needs people. Everyone hates weekends because the clients are home ALL DAY and you have to run all these special programs and activities and take them on outings and shit. I'm the only one willing to do it, so I work either 12 or 14 hour back-to-back shifts Saturday and Sunday, and usually Friday nights, because why the fuck not?

This means when I ask for a weekend off, my coworkers and boss flail around hysterically. Now, this is where it gets bullshit:

It is hard to get people to work weekends. Therefore, my boss cannot guarantee that you will get the weekend off if you ask for it, no matter how far you ask in advance. Since I work in Human Services, if I don't show up for work, that's a firing offense and possibly a crime.

So, essentially, my coworkers are too giant of dicks to sacrifice one weekend every two months for me. And since I was "originally scheduled to work" my boss can actually tell me I'M being the asshole. So, when I go into a new human services job, I tell them ALL the weekends I want off for the next year so they don't even schedule me for it. If they hem and haw about it, I walk out.

And the pay for my work as a caregiver? 8.50-10 an hour, depending on where I'm working and what shift. I change diapers, feed people, do laundry, clean the house, make all the meals, and dispense medications. Sucks bro.

>>4818302

I don't think there are much professions that would really have a problem with cosplaying unless you did CosplayDeviants or pushed it into everyones face at the office. Some of my coworkers were closet con goers. Never would've known if one of them didn't come across my Coscom profile.

It's not just cosplay; any job that was so demanding that I had to give up my hobbies would have be be high paying and/or one that I loved.

Plus I only go to two or three cons a year, so I'd think very seriously about a job that wouldn't give me two or three weekends of vacation time a year.

I have to admit, I like my job because they're pretty flexible. "Hey, I'm going to Vegas for a week, is that okay?" "Sure." "I'm going to LA for the July 4th weekend. I'll be back on Tuesday." "That's fine" "Hey, I'm going to be gone for a week for SDCC" "Okay, bring us some stuff." This was in the span of two months.

Of course now that it's crunch time they're having me work a lot more...

>>4818350
That is really shitty, I see what you mean now. I hate working with people like that, who are too good to work even a single weekend a month. I don't mind working weekends, and I've actually come to prefer it (lots of stuff closed on sunday, lots of places too busy on saturday). But having one here and there for special events is kind of nice.

>>4818387
It's mostly just something I hear younger cosplayers going on about. "I'm going to have to stop cosplaying when I grow up bawww" (usually followed by "no one would understand me!") Same with OP. They're like "cosplay OR a good job" Usually you can find ways to do both. Maybe you'll have to cut down the number of cons you go to, or only make 1-2 costumes a year, but there's no reason to have to choose between career and cosplay.

(Don't have a job, I'm feeding off my parents for now. As long as I'm in school, they're okay with it)
I try to do as much school work during the week as possible, using breaks and the like to work on cosplay.
I'm not majorly into cosplaying, so I don't have massive projects and such.
I have no idea about what I'll do after college.

I quit a job last year because after telling me I could have the weekend off for NYCC TWO MONTHS in advance, they flaked the week of and started telling me "they weren't sure about it." Mind you, this wasn't the ONLY reason I quit (shit schedule, constantly covered for people who never covered for me, shit pay, shit co-workers, etc etc) but it was the last straw. It was a good life decision, I got unemployment off their asses and have never looked back. I actually AM post-graduation now and am working in my career field in a job I enjoy at a local TV news station. I work Monday-Friday and rotating weekends. Thankfully, my co-workers and I are all cool with working around each other's schedules, so with enough notice we have been able to set things up to where I get con weekends off by default, so at the most the only "vacation time" I need to ask for is like, the Thursday or Friday before hand, and I work so hard that my boss doesn't mind giving me a Thursday-Friday off every four months or so. It's nice. I've been to two cons this year already, have my third (Dragon*Con) coming up next month. It's possible to work in your career field and still cosplay. You just have to be upfront about it and give people plenty of notice. Also developing and maintaining good relationships with your coworkers doesn't hurt (be willing to pick up the slack when someone else is out, it makes them more wiling to do it for you)

I missed AX because of work this year. Tough shit, that's life.

I have more prep time for next year fortunately.