quitting design
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- cannonball19780
ps in quitting, creativity has been entirely redefined for me. years of plodding around cubicles relegated that word to a department and now it's blossomed into it's true meaning
- MSTRPLN0
become a creative mailman
- ukit0
Although I like design, I don't see myself being a "designer" forever.
But it seems insane to throw away all those years of kerning and coding for nothing. Better to rethink your methods than your medium is what I'm thinking. Design is actually not a very good way to make money.
- you last like hurts so much because it's true.jimbojones
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- janne760
design is a completely shit way of making money.
- cannonball19780
be rid of it. god, what you definately don't need is another "career"
- true. but i live in a coountry that has become so narrow minded and full of fail.janne76
- janne760
and what i hate most is scripts i can't figure out. so a client needs a few adjustments on a site i did ages ago, so i say (STUPID FUCKING ME!!!!) okay, i'll charge two hours for it, client sez fine and now here i am beating my head on the desk after 4 hours of pure torture..
- comment your codes, or write it so no comment is neededuan
- and finish the job and tell client it took you a bit longer and cash+uan
- hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahah hahahahahahah hahahahahahahaha hahahahajanne76
- *snif heh..
sorry, where do you live again? you got clients like that?janne76 - educate your clients...you ask politely and explain the additional time.uan
- been there..
thanks though!janne76
- uan0
selling drugs is for money, design is an ok way to a living
- cannonball19780
also:
"But what about my mortgage/wife/kids?"
that's fear talking
- i don't have any of those and never will i think. i was born as a solipsist (wtf?) most people say.janne76
- CALLES0
become an art director and torture designers
- Mau0
I am selling hairbrushes online.
- Rand0
beating your head on the desk? are you out of the tent now, Janne?
- CALLES0
i think what we have here is that design is quitting you
- Horp0
I feel your pain Jaanne. I quite design and went into illustration instead. It got me five more years. Now though, now.... OH GOD GET ME OUT OF THIS SHIT.
- ukit0
- Dancer0
When I quit design I want to be a carpenter. Or maybe drive a static crane... imagine the views?
- static cranes move? who knew?Rand
- http://static.howstu…Dancer
- Horp0
Janne you and me. Suicide pact. RIght now. COME ON.
- janne760
i will become a gigolo for very old lonely ladies and outsource the work to India and cash the difference.
- Screwing old ladies for cash often crosses my mind.Horp
- < Maybe I should have just thought that without actually typing out the words.Horp
- I am drunk don't forget, so liable to exaggeration...Horp
- ... by which I mean, OF COURSE I WOULDN'T SCREW OLD LADIES. I'd just finger them.Horp
- and photograph itRand