Greetings all!

  Just wanted to share with all of you a few thoughts from recent events with me. Without going into too much detail, just want to encourage everyone to participate in all our challenges.

  Recently I applied for a job with a very good company doing software development, as many of you will remember I am a programmer. During the application process I placed a link to my gallery here at Renderosity, and specifically to Glass Challenge entry from earlier this year. 

(http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1412738&member).

I got hired and wow! I found it to be far more than I expected, all in a good way.

A week later I found that they had visited the gallery and were impressed (I had not expected them to). Even though the gallery link was a small thing in the section of the application for listing what hobbies I do, I used it as a tool to help separate me from other applicants.

So, I just wanted to share with you all that no matter how slight you feel your art works are, or that no one outside of the 3D community will bother with computer rendered art, or whatever, don't over look what you can do in the galleries here. It's an asset you have, don't take it for granted. Take it seriously because you never know if it can help separate you from the crowd.