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  • necromation

    When you think about all the things you could be doing for work, we have chosen to be designers (and such like) but are you really happy? if you didn't have to work... Would you, or is you love for design in it's many facets enough to keep you working? Where does it end for you or has it already but you just go through the motions.

    I'm sure many of of us have found ourselves saying "fuck this" but continue... I remember reading somewhere that average person changes there career at least 3 times in there lifetime... i'm think i'm ready for porn now.

    I'm pissed sitting at my desk wanting to go home...

    Jun 11, 10, 8:49 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    I do this so I never have to work.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 8:49 a.m. – Permalink
  • bigtrickagain

    • after listening to this for one minute, i now regret posting it– bigtrickagain1/3
      i was getting in the begin but then i hooked up with one chick and knocked out some kids!– necromation2/3
      coll dude! i did it all for the nookie the nookie so you can have a cookie
      – dasohr3/3
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 8:57 a.m. – Permalink
  • d_rek

    As soon as I have the funding i'm opening up a greenhouse. The most rewarding work ever.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:10 a.m. – Permalink
  • vitamins

    I'm concerned that I rarely see designers over 45

    • that's because by then they can play the political game and become Directors– flashbender1/4
      I hear you on that one...– necromation2/4
      @flashbender. spot on– plash3/4
      I'm concerned I rarely see designers over 28– Ranger4/4
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:11 a.m. – Permalink
  • fugged

    maybe it's time for a change.

    i left the design world years ago, mostly because i sucked, but i also realized my heart wasn't in it. love what i do now, but somedays i wonder if swinging a hammer and building things that were real would be a nice change.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink
  • scarabin

    i do this because:

    • i enjoy solving problems with many factors

    • i enjoy the psychology of advertising

    • sitting back and looking at something beautiful i've made is one of the greatest pleasures in life

    • i'd be a painter but there's no money in it; in design i can support myself and enable a lifestyle other than "starving artist"

    • the IQs of the people i work with in this industry are typically far above the norm

    • i like making bulleted lists

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:23 a.m. – Permalink
  • Wolfboy

    If I dropped the big lottery win or something I wouldn't work. But I'd still do things creatively. All those projects I've scribbled about in my note books over the years that I've never had the time to really get my teeth into them.

    Maybe I'd study a particular thing for a while and attempt to become world champion in that event/thing - a video game or a bar game. Something like that.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:24 a.m. – Permalink
  • necromation

    It's funny isn't...To most my mates they think that i'm the luckiest sod on the planet but when i try to explain that a job is just a job and that i too have bull shit days, they call me a cunt and reckon i'm just whinging for the sake of it.

    • +1 I often say to them "You see a light on at 3am... it's me" Still... I love it.– ItTango
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:28 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    I've known folks who shoveled shit for a living and were more than happy to do it...

    ... so if you find yourself 'complaining in your head' that you hate your job where you get to be creative etc... ... remember that there are happy shit shovelers out there...

    ... then get over yourself.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:30 a.m. – Permalink
  • nadanada

    i do this because it's the only thing i've been solidly good at for any reasonable amount of time.... but i spend all day at my desk wishing i could go learn the other things i want to be good at.

    i want to live in london and be an apprentice on savile row, or go to fashion school.... but it all seems so far away.

    • Don't be a sissy! I was even further and I got here anyway!– maikel
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:33 a.m. – Permalink
  • LukeO

    having a hobby as a real job is great for me about 50% of the time.

    What isn't great is every one of my friends earning more than me because they are city boys or sell other crap. That sucks. And as Vitamins says, designers disappearing around the 40+ age really bothers me. It's almost unspoken, it seems you set up on your own, get a director role or get the fuck out!

    • you can peacefully OD, ain't it?– maikel
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:38 a.m. – Permalink
  • previous

    no other options

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink
  • previous

    pb : voice of everyman

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink
  • bigtrickagain

    I do this (front-end engineering) because i make money at it, and can't [yet] make money doing what i really want to do, which is photography.

    i am not happy with my current career.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:44 a.m. – Permalink
  • pillhead

    If someone told me at art collage in 1991 I would be sitting at a computer 90% of the time dealing with computer code and only spending 10% of my time, if that, designing and being creative I would have walked out of collage there and then and done something different.

    • But then you never would have learned valuable stuff, like how to spell– ukit1/4
      lol ukit...
      ... I made many collages in many colleges      – PonyBoy2/4
      hate it when that happens. ...– plash3/4
      If I knew someone were going to collage me, I would walk out of that scene too– albyeno4/4
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:45 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    http://www.club101.org/graphics/job.jpg

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:50 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    http://gezi.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/picture7.jpg

    • haha– vitamins1/5
      I have no idea what the explanation could possibly be for this.– CyBrain2/5
      aren't they noodlin?– jmilligan3/5
      95% sure they're digging for clams on the beach. Good times.– mtgentry4/5
      okie noodlin'! ok maybe not but i prefer to think that that's what they're doing.– sputnik25/5
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:51 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    http://www.davidtoyne.com/wp-content/uploads/image0011.jpg

    • the look on the guy's face at right is priceless– sputnik2
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:51 a.m. – Permalink
  • PonyBoy

    http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/2/16/128793068644521146.jpg

    • That guy has an easy gig. Must get paid a ton just for his voice / all american man persona.– seed
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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:52 a.m. – Permalink
  • luckyorphan

    I do this because I'm okay at it (I'll never think I'm all that great), it's often enjoyable and it pays decent.

    But if I could be a teacher and make the same rate, I'd bail any time.

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    Dog-earJun 11, 10, 9:54 a.m. – Permalink

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