u/BeeBumbled_

So my best friend and I moved into an apartment and have been living together for 2 years. She brought her 2 cats(Bobo and Honkers) with her. They are 8 year old Siamese/American short hair mix. I love cats, but I need to sleep and if I leave my door open, they’ll come in and wake me up by either knocking my things over or yelling in my face.

I’ve been sleeping with my door closed the entire time we’ve lived together, and have the door closed most of the time anyway. Both cats have tried to get in my room before, mainly Bobo learning how to open doors (door handle) and would meow outside of it, but this was only occasionally. It’s never been a problem until these past couple of weeks.

Honkers has started throwing an actual fit trying to get into my room. He had never tried opening doors until now, and succeeds with brute force and persistence. He yowls nonstop, pricks his nails on the carpet, scratches at and under the door, and jumps up at the handle until he can force his way in.

Nothing has changed environmentally that we can think of, nor has my interactions with them, so we’re both baffled by this shift in behavior. We changed my handle to a knob but this seems to have increased his behaviors now that the handle doesn’t work.

I don’t know what to do, I’m at my wits end. I can’t let him in because allowing access to this room would perpetuate his behavior. Does anybody have any ideas on why he’s doing this and how I can change this ? Thanks.

I am a 27 f artist, I’ve been drawing my whole life. I mainly draw digitally but can easily transfer my skills to a traditional media. I’d be happy making a career out of it, have enough drive to do so, and have been doing research over the years on how i can do this.

That being said, with the AI situation being as it is, on top of the fact that I know well that the art industry is very over saturated and very connections focused. So, I’m wondering if it’s worth it to go down this path and full send it despite the very real and high possibility I can fail?

I’m looking into:

- Animation
- Game design (I understand this requires coding with it)
- Tattooing

I already do freelance work with commissions, but I don’t have enough of a following to maintain consistent income and support myself.

Lastly, I guess, I was just hoping somebody could give me advice on whether it’s worth all of the effort required? I don’t want to full send a degree and career path just to end up in debt and still having to work a minimum wage job.