Our Inner Banksy

Busking for Business

Busking is an honorable occupation. Doing the things we need to do to make money.

When things seemed more stable than they are seem to be becoming, we could all be buskers. We could turn up, do our stuff, and people would pay. I know accountants, lawyers, lots of managers, and many others who have made a career out of busking. I spent a considerable chunk of my life as an employee as a well paid busker.

Busking has become a higher risk and less profitable occupation as it has morphed into the gig economy. We can find many people at all levels, from recent graduates to CEO's who are prepared to busk, though we don't call it that - we call it interim, or consulting - but it's still busking. Doing something good enough but not original in return for money.

We can't do the same with artists, because they're in it for a different reason. They're in it for the art, for the joy of creating something that only they can make. I also know accountants, lawyers, Coders, Doctors a…