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- RoosterCup0
"Technological Prowess
I have pretty good knowledge of the following technologies:
XHTML / CSS, PHP, MySQL, Flash Actionscript, Javascript, Wordpress"come the fuck on...
- RoosterCup0
And a high school education...
- RoosterCup0
You have a 3 page long resume...
- pockets0
piss cry moan and groan...
look for another job..
probably toss my portfolio amd make "good work"
- sequoia0
so what are you going to do about it? that's the real question.
- brother0
But does it stay?
- ukit0
Let them know that Europeans like your work.
- and that Americans call it Swiss designmonospaced
- and that you'll blow him out of the industry.bigtrickagain
- jimzy0
They sound like cunts. Would you really want to work there?
Keep working at your portfolio — if you're trying to fill it with work it's not a bad suggestion doing work for random companies like they suggested.... But they still sound like cunts. I probably would have called him a cunt.
- thats a lot of cunts i just read. wow.iCanHasQBN
- 2 cunts & 1 cuntjimzy
- and a cupmonospaced
- whatsup0
the hardest part is constructive crit. maybe they said, you're work is "the shit. "
- _niko0
Cartography is a precise, detail oriented field. Boring technical work, you seem like more of an artist, you need something that encourages your free flowing esthetic.
- orrinward0
Just because some work has won an award doesn't mean negative opinions on it aren't valid. I don't see his point as I really like those cartography pieces (significantly higher standard than the rest of your work) but that is his opinion, and unless they're producing stuff in that area that is ridiculously better than yours it is their loss.
Some interviews go bad. You just take it on the chin and try and take a lesson from it. Perhaps some of your mannerisms or the way you presented your work brushed him up the wrong way. Judging by the way you defended of the work is 'It's not shit it won awards', you could be out of your league slightly with regard to professionalism.
The way to turn an opinion to being a positive one on your work is not by saying 'Yeh but other people like it', you justify the works quality through explaining the techniques used and reasoning behind the piece itself. You need to be able to both accept critique and negative feedback to work, but also be able to argue your case in an intelligent and informed manner.
I'm no cartographer so I don't know the contextual side of what you've done there, I just like the way it is illustrated, but there is a lot more meaning and reasoning behind the design choices. That is probably what the guy was trying to provoke, albeit in a discomforting way.
- pockets0
i just love hearing my work is shit...it makes me feel so warm inside
- You just graduated not too long ago.brother
- do you want us to lie to you? stop feeling bad for yourself and try to get better.iCanHasQBN
- If you're meant to be in the industry, you'll use negative crits as motivation to prove those wrong.ETM
- If you take it to heart, get out while you still have a soul.ETM
- PIZZA0
Yeah those are shit (apart from the bee, but they're not hiring a stock photographer), don't show any of that next time
- Rand0
I wouldn't do anything... chances are he's wrong, or as wrong as anybody else
- d_rek0
Hey now, we all get slammed at various times throughout our career - whether it's an interview, reviewing work with colleagues or clients, or just sharing with members of the general public.
Really it will only serve to make you better. Tear something down to build it up again and all that jazz...
- Rand0
In my opinion you're all wrong
Why? Because I'm an asshole.
- JSK0
none of these were considered to be "good work""
By you or by them? If by them, I have to agree with them