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I<\/span>\u2019ve always thought of freelance artists\u2014writers, painters, composers, sculptors\u2014as being more blue- than white-collar workers.<\/p>\n Granted, we\u2019re not assembly-line workers, mechanics or gardeners. But we\u2019re certainly not executives. We generally don\u2019t delegate the work we do.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9mZWF0dXJlZF9pbWFnZSIsInNldHRpbmdzIjp7fX0=@” alt=”Edgy Cartoon” title_text=”Kitchen Confidential” show_in_lightbox=”on” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.16″ _dynamic_attributes=”src” width=”80%” width_tablet=”93%” width_phone=”95%” width_last_edited=”on|phone” max_width=”95%” max_width_tablet=”” max_width_phone=”” max_width_last_edited=”on|desktop” module_alignment=”center” border_width_all=”1px” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Caption” _builder_version=”4.17.6″ text_font=”Georgia||on||||||” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”-16px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Formalism Defined<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Now, I can see why artist Diego Rivera\u2019s supervising a group of students as they executed one of his monumental frescoes might seem to be an exception\u2014that he\u2019s working as a chief executive muralist, not as a staffer\u2014but relatively few creatives get into the position of being a hands-off artist (or if you prefer, a\u00a0hand-off artist, as in, hand it off to someone else).<\/p>\n Actors and orchestra musicians serve the material they’re handed and led through by the director or conductor of what they\u2019re performing. I imagine the directors and conductors could be seen as the white-collar workers in these circumstances but they\u2019re usually very engaged in creating the product, not sending it to a lab and simply reacting to what gets put together by the gang in R&D.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n My dad was a blue-collar guy for his first career: two decades as a New York City firefighter. In his second career, as a claims adjuster for the Bekins Van Lines moving company in Southern California, he was a reluctant white-collar guy, wearing a dress shirt and squirming under a necktie he was constantly loosening. This caused one of the company\u2019s district bosses, visiting my dad\u2019s office, to issue a memo about the \u201cunprofessionalism\u201d of a loosened tie (in an office that no customers ever came to, it should be noted; so who was supposed to be impressed by the staff’s professionalism?). Even so, my dad, who grew up in the Depression and fully understood the divide between management and labor, tightened his tie back into a chokehold. At least until the district boss left the building. This is where the expression about someone “leading a life of quiet desperation” could have originated\u2014or would have if Henry David Thoreau hadn’t coined it in the 1860s, declaring, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” (If you’re feeling especially playful, you can turn this around to become “Desperate men spend their lives leading Masses.” But enough about the beleaguered Catholic clergy.)<\/p>\n