Since the dotcom bust, I find it hard to make a decent living wage in SF. The studio that gainfully employed me for over 10 years eliminates my department without warning and sends our jobs overseas to sweatshops in Asia... By 2002, most of my colleagues scatter to affordable areas, like back home with their folks, back to school to retrain, or overseas to the studios that now contract out our projects. I manage to continue to find bits of part time work and stay busy with my personal work. My personal work flourishes...Unfortunately, most of the freelance jobs I run across are either small or grossly underpaid. What is left of the industry I had adored has morphed into a big, shiny, bouncy overseas commodity...
