/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

It's so weird to me how art is treated in society.
It's the hardest thing I've ever worked on, going on almost a decade now, yet it's seen as a shit worthless skill learned by fags.

I was a very "Engineering-minded" kid, until I discovered art in my late teens.
With STEM, you'd see companies/gov BEGGING you to study. They'll pay you hand-over-fist, fund your whole degree, train you while you take a full salary.

They're fucking desperate to have you, yet I show up to my job and I'm doing work so unskilled you could teach a monkey to do it.
I just don't fucking get it.