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Work with Marty Nemko: If Your Adult Child Wants to be an Artist

If your child had just graduated from college and wanted to pursue a career as an artist (or actor, musician, something like that) and to date had earned just $1,000 from her creative output, would you encourage her to continue?

On the Aug 23, 2015 edition of Work with Marty Nemko, my wife Barbara Nemko and I will have a switch-sides-in-the middle debate on that.

And in the second part of the show, you can call in with your work conundrum. I can usually help. I call those Workovers, no pummeling involved.

Work with Marty Nemko is heard every Sunday from 11 AM to noon on 91.7 FM and is archived for a week on NPR.org and iTunes, and in perpetuity here on KALW.org.

Marty Nemko was called "job coach extraordinaire" by U.S. News and "The Bay Area's best career coach" by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written 20 essays in TIME's Ideas section, and 1240 for PsychologyToday.com. Previously, his career column appeared for six years in the San Francisco Chronicle and then wrote The Big Idea continuing series on WashingtonPost.com and the Working it Out column on TheAtlantic.com. In his 30th year as a career and education advisor, Marty Nemko has served 5,400 clients and enjoys a 96% client-satisfaction rate. He is a part-time instructor of medical students at the UCSF School of Medicine.