{"id":54507,"date":"2020-11-29T14:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=54507"},"modified":"2020-11-29T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T14:36:15","slug":"cosplayer-quit-her-day-job-during-lockdown-to-make-costumes-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2020\/11\/29\/cosplayer-quit-her-day-job-during-lockdown-to-make-costumes-full-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosplayer quit her day job during lockdown to make costumes full time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Karolina Kwa\u015bniak decided the uncertain time of lockdown was ideal to change her career path; and she was right<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Mando_mix-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Mando_mix-1170x585.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Mando_mix.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Mando_mix-293x147.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Mando_mix-1400x700.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Karolina wearing her Mandalorian cosplay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Listen to the story here <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/926566348&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/926566348&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><div style=\"font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cardiffjomec\" title=\"CardiffJomec\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CardiffJomec<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cardiffjomec\/how-karolina-started-her-business-in-lockdown\" title=\"How Karolina started her business in lockdown\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Karolina started her business in lockdown<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While people started losing their jobs due to Covid-19 and lockdown and the government suggested to artists to retrain, Karolina Kwa\u015bniak decided to leave her day job to pursue a career in arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/karoinna\">Karolina Kwa\u015bniak<\/a>, 23, grew up in a little town in Poland where Halloween wasn\u2019t celebrated and cosplay wasn\u2019t very known, but her life changed when she moved out at the age of 18 and discovered the art of dressing up and costume making. As someone who has always been interested in art, she quickly added cosplay to her list of hobbies, not knowing it would her to a whole new career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might come to some as a surprise, but the cosplaying scene in the UK is big. There are numbers of conventions and competitions and the year is usually filled with different championships. Costume making keeps becoming an artistic expression for more and more people every year and Karolina saw her potential there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-390x390.jpg 390w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-585x585.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa.jpg 900w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-770x770.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-293x293.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-390x390.jpg 390w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2020\/11\/Karo-i-jej-ekipa-585x585.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Karolina&#8217;s (@<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/karoinna\/\">Karoinna<\/a>) variety of costumes she made<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cosplay commissions<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>After Karolina finished her undergraduate studies, where she perfected her English and learned Welsh, she moved to Swansea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started teaching adult foreigners English, but even with her love for languages, the job wasn\u2019t too enjoyable as many of the students did not respect her or her knowledge because of her young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was teaching people older than me, and they would sometimes make me feel like they are trying to teach me a lesson rather than me helping them,\u201d Karolina explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, people would already ask her for a <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/10\/20\/cardiff-cosplayers-to-co-mingle\/\">cosplay<\/a> commission, but she didn\u2019t think it could be a full-time job for her as she was worried if she could make enough money through it. After all, a career in arts isn\u2019t seen as the most secure and stable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, Karolina realised her job didn\u2019t bring her any joy anymore, only stress. The job was also time-consuming so she couldn\u2019t spend time creating art as much as she wanted. The solution became clear to her \u2013 it was time to change her career, and the first national lockdown seemed like a good time to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;\u201cI was lucky\u201d<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought it is the right time to try and see if I can do it,\u201d Karolina said. \u201cI was lucky that my husband is so supportive because [without him] I\u2019d be too scared to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe said: \u2018You don\u2019t like your job so quit it; you can always come back,\u2019\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lockdown brought its challenges. For a business, you often need professional photographs, especially when it comes to costume making and due to the restrictions, she couldn\u2019t get help from professional photographers. But it was in a way a blessing in disguise. She learned how to take and edit pictures and became completely self-reliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karolina could not be happier for changing her career in the lockdown. While people found themselves struggling and not being able to work, she built her studio at home and created a job that she can do from home where she decides her work hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changing jobs is often a difficult decision and this year made it even harder for people, but Karolina doesn\u2019t think you should stay in a bad work environment. 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