Career Change
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- ian00
I'm burned out. Being creative on the clock is sucking my soul dry. Not sure what to do next. Should I go get an MBA? Seems like it would provide a valuable skill set. Could also be a complete waste of time.
*wonders why he is posting this here*
- CALLES0
get a masters and teach online and make tons of money
- antigirl0
make art for creativity sake.
write.
drink a bottle of champagne.there is many options. quit your job for a few weeks and get a better headspace is a good one. i think true artist/designer will always be artiste/designer.
- perhaps i am realizing that I am not "true" designer. I like it. I'm pretty good at it. Just not passionate about itian00
- are you driven to be creative? if the answer is yes... you know.antigirl
- tis is exactly the route i am taking. as long as you do good work you will find a way to survive, job or not.cannonball
- antigirl, you are cool.mudchicken
- brains0
Please ask all your questions in the official Questions & Answers thread.
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- yaphi0
Be a plumber. Make your own schedule and there are never enough of you around.
- My Uncle is a union plumber and makes $35/hr plus a VERY comprehensive benefits package.epigraph
- you can easily make $35+ as a designer without actually working with shit, oh there will be shitty projects but not other people feces.fooler
- $35/hour is supposed to be good? shit my rate is £60hrMojo
- To far all day, be late every time, and to genuinely be lazy...it's a great amount. There's always jobs.yaphi
- er, fartyaphi
- gadg3tg1rl0
I tried it & switched to landscaping. Hard labour for $7 per hour sucks ass.
- marychain0
I'm getting my commercial license right now. I have fantasy of hanging up this life at some point & flying charter flights out of Miami to the islands. Designing, drawing & painting on my own terms.
it'll happen...you'll see...you'll all see.
- killerqueen0
lol @ MBA
"Gee I'm so tired of being creative all day long, lemme go open up Excel and crunch numbers"
right.
- seems like a shallow take on MBAs. Perhaps you are right though.ian00
- nothing personal, but i for one, will never understand the point of an MBA. easily the dumbest thing to do in higher ed.madirish
- IMOmadirish
- MBAs seem like a good "get rich quick" scheme.fooler
- starting salaries at my alma matter, UCLA, are about $120k+
You've got to have some super credentials to get in, thought, including years of working/managing experienceformed
- BattleAxe0
become a lawyer for the sake of just being a lawyer , but don't go into practice
- ian000
funny you mention that cause it had crossed my mind.
- madirish0
just do whatever you want to do as best as you can. anything else is satisfying some other/ones goals.
- ukit0
Move to a third world country. Then do one freelance gig a month to pay your dirt cheap cost of living and spend the rest of the time sipping Martinis on the beach.
- Complexfruit0
Do something different from your norm.
Volunteer.
Make art/work you've been putting off for years.
- visualplane_0
Maybe invest in a career counselor to spot what's right for you.
- killerqueen0
If you want more control over creative projects, you have to prove you have good ideas.
This doesn't mean get an MBA.
This means do self-initiated work. Shoot a music video. Come up with unsolicited spec-work and campaigns on your own time. Be a "self-starter"
- ismith0
Invest all your cash and take a year long leave of absence in a poor country where you can get by with a few bucks and an easy going job.
- designerror0
MBA is not a bad move, but mark my words!
Once you have been working with Excel for a week, you will start to color the cells to make a nice little patterns, next you try to a draw blocky typeface in Excel in your lunch break, and finally you will start up Paint to draw shitty logos because thats all your computer have installed that can draw.
When you hit the Paint stage, quit your Excel job and go beg your old boss to give you your job back.
- set0
I felt the exact same way a few years ago. I quit my job and became a postman for 2 months, now I'm back to freelancing heh
- Josev0
I read in a newspaper that Rolex sales are booming but there are only 4400 repair people for them in the world (compared to 44000 in the 60s). They're trying to find people to train.
- _salisae_0
you could become a creative recruiter and take a break for a bit.