venting my anger
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My old bosses at my first gig used to tell me "you gotta pay your dues"... fuckin idiots. I thought dues was pasting up boards and running to the library for research material and filling up 4 pages of my sketchbook with design ideas at 1am to get ready for the early morning meeting. Turns out those weren't the dues; those were the things that always need to be done and that I don't mind doing because they are all necessary parts of the design process. The real dues were having to listen to the bullshit these guys dished out and how they were always trying to mold me to be their little desing clones. Idiots. That's why they went out of business a year after I quit that place.
Anyhow, keep your chin up. It will get better and your opportunity to be you and have your work reflect that will come. Yeah, I'm not doing my dream design job yet, but it's all the means to the ends.