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- karlo
else PISS BORED of design and want to get out and do something else??
I am literally at cracking point...
Wish Id been a dentist instead like
Ta
Karlo
- Crouwel0
*raises hand
- honest0
i feel you. You might be in the wrong job or have at least the wrong clients.
what is design?
a creative service for clients or an artistic jerkoff contest to show your peers how cool you are?
- Crouwel0
artistic jerkoff contest to show myself how cool i am
- 23kon0
so you's are just doing it for the money and having 'cool clients'?
does that not show that you's dont actually have a passion for design?
i know that even if i wasnt doing design as a job, i'd still be doing design in my own time and creating things. i guess i am lucky that i can get paid for something i love doing - regardless of the clients. i look upon a sh*t client as a challenge, or trying to make a pissboring company become a lot more exciting than they actually are.
definitely NEVER get bored with design, and if a client is gettign me down or none of the current projects are particularly exciting then il do something for myself.
My other passion is music, i'd LOVE to leave my job and concentrate on music and try to make some sort of living for that - but the realities of actually making money from it are very slim.
- Concrete0
Thats the spirit 23kon.
Other jobs I would love to do
Pro BMX rider
Record producer
Architect
Restaurant criticeither way its like being paid for a full time hobby.
- Crouwel0
i quit because i had to compete with crap companies here that maek design an unspiring thing. still the general market here falls for that utter shit from the gutter.
- designerror0
become an actor.
dutchie
37 minutes ago
- elms0
- UndoUndo0
the grass is always greener opver there »
- CFish0
I think poorly educated clients are to blame. Not knowing the difference between poor and good design and the true meaning of brand values. We are constantly providing estimates that get binned becuase of being to "expensive". It's only expensive if you get no return on the investment you've put in. I am bored of it all.
...I wish I became a carpenter
- DaveO0
Sometimes though you can take a horse to water but not make it drink.
I have no shame in admitting that I just want to do cool work to make myself and my peers proud. Aftyer all, who looked at a fucking local gym logo and got inspired to be a designer? It was always record covers and design books!
Cool work rocks.
- Crouwel0
sssshh, jens.
- jamble0
the grass is always greener opver there »
UndoUndo
(Oct 4 06, 05:47)That is the same for every job in the universe, apart from:
chocolate taster
That is all.
- CFish0
...and the gardener with the greenest grass of all.
- Chief0
it could always be worse. you could be an 8th grade teacher like my lady and spend your days with kids who don't give a fuck about anything except basketball and rapping. you could then look forward to coming home and calling the parents of said students to inforrm them that their kids are involved in gang activity at the age of 13, only to get bitched at because the parents don't give a fuck. you can ask yourself why in the hell you spent all of that money in grad school to make a difference when the kids, uh, don't give a fuck. sorry, just saying, you know, it could always be worse.
- jamble0
That sounds like a piece of piss compared to having a client who wants things to "look more dynamic"
- flavorful0
Chief tell your wifey to stop calling me mum.
Eh, we all go thru burn out phases.
I heard one of the worst quotes ever last nite, "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
Only adding to my hatred of Patton.