After graduation, I worked in a variety of Art related jobs. These jobs ranged from a layout artist at a screen printing factory to a "show puller" for an art auction warehouse. After CalArts, I worked in various fields as a designer to survive. I now teach art to visually impaired adults. In 1991 I started a ceramic business, manufacturing dinnerware and since 1985 I have been sculpting models for holographic companies like Polaroid. I am doing my own work, very slowly, as time allows. I show occassionally, but am not actively pursuing a career as an exhibiting artist. I am the sole support of my family of four, at this time. My husband, a painter, is pursuing a career.          Fortunately, I've found enough freelance to sustain me for now, but it leads to my overall concern regarding life as an artist. I have found it extremely difficult to make a living. I regret how short sighted I was when younger. My job of fifteen years is steady money even though I don't like the work, it gives me the money to do my art. I have earned my living as an art teacher since graduation. Following a degree in fine arts and a stint as a wolf psychologist, marketing consultant Susan Starbird began her career in communications. I now work in production at the largest prepress service for the publishing and advertising industry in the U.S. It ain't art, but it sure beats sketching rompers in a backwater. I don't want "art" and its expenses and its frustrations to tyrannize me.

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