Help Marcus get to Los Angeles !

Hello everyone.

Warning , long post and If you have the time please read and consider helping me out.

I rarely share my personal feelings on social media because I feel no one cares. Sometimes I feel there is no point to crying online about real life issues and when I see people do it I cringe, I don’t know why. But I am lead to believe there is people who care and want to help online no matter the issue.

Asking for help is the hardest thing to do of my adult life. I didn’t have a lot of experience speaking up early in my life but that time is over if I want to grow. I cannot do this all by self constantly.

2021 was a great year for me. I was able to reach many of my artistic goals but this was through sacrifice. I greatly decreased my time as a worker at my day job (from 40hrs to 16hr)

This was a wonderfully liberating time for me but unfortunately my wages decreased. Although I was able to obtain several clients this year, most of my pay went towards replacing my lost wage.

I am currently at a point where I feel undervalued at my day job and after loosing thank you pay ($4), healthcare benefits, and a steady work week I am entirely lost.

Let’s talk about sacrifice again, what am I to do? Find another soul sucking job where my career is put on the back burner again after a very successful year of knowing I can ACTUALLY do it? Just to be in the same place I am in or lesser?

Hell No.

GOOD NEWS. I have decided to partly sacrifice running my own business to use my artistic abilities to help someone else’s company.

After an extensive job search I have accepted a job offer for a mural company in Los Angeles where my skills are highly valued and I will have work year round at a VERY reasonable salary. My pay has doubled and there plenty of room to move up in the company.

This is where I am asking for help. Every fiber of my being is working toward getting me to this dream job. But because of my sacrifices the past few months I don’t have to means to get there and my contract is time sensitive. My start date would be March 1st. The help requested will main go towards moving expenses.

In these moments most people look to their close family members for help but I do not have that. My parents and grandparents are currently gone and in moments like these my feelings of loss, abandonment and loneliness really come forward.

I am very proud for doing as much as I have on my own with little to no outside help but those times are ending. You can not do everything alone.

If you relate to my story please consider contributing to my gofund me and help me get to LA