anyone here working with their partner?
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- digdre0
jesus christ!!!!
- MrDinky0
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I like your work. Will your children be forced in to design?
- jimzyk0
if it works for you – well done.
my boss and his wife run the agency i work for.
works really well. personally i can't imagine doing it - but i guess if it works, why not?your work looks really well too - so it's obviously not a bad thing.
- Etype0
i worked at 2 different small studios that were run by couples... the first one was fine... you would have even known because both were so bizy they had different jobs. The 2nd was horrible.. they would argue in front of me, they thought i was trying to play them at times... asking one for something then asking the other. The worst design job I have had so far!
- ideaist0
i'm at www.michaellecuyer.com and work on art with my ol' lady at www.ruthannpearce.ca... she's my muse (75% of the time)... the rest of the time she's completely unbearable... welcome to a relationship... ; )
- ceiling_cat0
do you guys shag in the bathroom?
- soynutz70
worked with my GF, she would produce and i would design. Then we started taking things to personally and the work suffered. Now i steer clear of working on her projects.
- gramme0
As soon as I can afford to get a new computer for my wife and we can sync our machines, she'll take over the financial and mgmt. side of the business. Right now it's just me doing everything from a home office. I think it will be a long time before I'd need her help more than 20 hours a week. I don't see how there would really be any problems. I already work from home and see her every day. She wouldn't really want to be involved in the design side of the biz, despite her background in fashion design.
- JerseyRaindog0
I kind of collaborate with my wife on her stuff. Her soft toy making and sewing kits. It's cool because I can offer opinions and I do all her packaging and promo material in my evenings. Getting up at 6 at the weekends to do markets is a bitch though after a week working in a studio.
Her shop btw (spam alert) http://www.areathriftyone.com
- gramme0
Before going solo I worked for a husband/wife team. He rarely and sporadically came into the office, basically managed the finances and benefits. He stayed at home with their two kids. She was the face of the company, design director, etc.
I think it works out pretty well for them, although if I personally was in his shoes I'd feel castrated—but I'm wired very differently than he is. I won't mention anything publicly about any awkward moments I may or may not have witnessed.
- vsplus0
I work with my wife for freelance and personal projects. It works pretty fine for both of us because when one of us is lacking of energy or idea or creativity (or else) the other one is there to kick the other's ass. Of course we are fighting sometimes but I guess we enjoy it !! And I would have probably never moved in the US if she wasn't with me. I don't think she would be in America without me either. I wonder if things would be that easy if we were working full time together. But I would try if we had the opportunity !
- pylon0
My wife and I run a studio together though we rarely work on the same projects at the same time. We've each got our team and only overlap with some of our oldest clients. Our expertise is in different disciplines so it's not like we're competing to be better than one another.
The key is knowing when to draw the line between work and non-work and to leave work at work and to leave home and home.
Ya know, working together or not, it's not a great idea to be competitive with your spouse.
- digdre0
but then again, is a relationship without some fighting now and then a real relationship? i don't think so.
- ceiling_cat0
in teh ceiling, you don't have to work. everyday is caturday, i promise you, srsly
- plash0
i did for a while; about 3 years. i did design she did sales . good business gone sour. ending with divorce..