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- benfal990
You think you want to stop being a designer and should build homes instead? Is it what you just said?
- identity0
Not necessarily... I think it's more application than purpose in this case. I think 'building houses' is more of a metaphor for what applied action, rather than theoretical action means to me - perhaps a shift in values
- identity0
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- cannonball19780
Now you're just backtracking via analysis. Sack up, get to working with your hands and sieze your creative dignity.
- Dad was an architect - not my drive - I think it's a physical symbol to what I'm talking about. But not the answeridentity
- So was mine. Not saying you need another 5 years. I'm saying quit analyzing and folow your guts.cannonball1978
- Why do all the sons of architects become graphic designers? Silent protest? I'm not disagreeing with you thoughidentity
- We grow up with the concepts and never deal with zoning or contractors.cannonball1978
- Ah, see - I knew you'd have a reasonabl answer to that! :-)identity
- lukus_W20
Take a holiday, have a break and get some proper perspective. It's probably a bit unrealistic to expect to have a truly useful 'ah ha' moment when you're working hard.
When it comes down to it - the grass is always greener. Small changes add up - while it's nice to think about grand gestures, sometimes those larger plans are really just red-herrings.
- Agree, it's time for a holiday. Take some time to think and re asses priorities.monoblanco
- abettertomorrow0
Go volunteer for Habitat for Humanity for a couple weeks and see if you really mean what you wrote:)
- identity0
^ perhaps right... Though I'm not melancholly or overworked. Kind of came out of nowhere... I've started working out and dieting again recently... Maybe the cause? Good advice nertheless - I migh just take it. I guess my original post was something of a runner asking if thereareothers who have experience 'runner's high'... Mire interested to hear What others have done when they've been involved in similar situations
- identity0
Don't get me wrong - I've built houses, dug ditches, connected plumbing. In a sense it was temporarily rewarding but I'm talking about a bigger picture - a life's purpose... Not free of troyblesvand problems - just something that has a marked difference in the world... Idealistic?
- Yeh, Felt the same way once. You have two options. Do or Don't. There is a calling or there isn't You decide man.kenteeko
- bigtrick0
yeah, follow these good people's advice, get "perspective," work in your job that you know, write that branding book, hop agencies for forty years while putting in ten hours every six months "working" for habitat with your office-soft hands. pretend that that's enough.
when you're close to death and you realize you've wasted your life because you did what everyone else told you to do, it'll be too late.
anyway. maybe you should look at this thread:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/579601…
and look at page 4.
breaking out gets harder as you grow older.
- kenteeko0
Life always give you the test first and the question later. Seems like you already know the answer.
- OBBTKN0
Try doing illustration for kids, you´ll be proud of you, of your art, bla, bla, bla...
Wait! There is allways a marketing guy prior to publish it!! < It ruins all your good wave, your karma, all of this...
- MHDC0
Identity crisis
- dorf0
- i_monk0
Buy a potter's wheel and build a kiln in the back yard.
- JSK0
Never too late to be a doctor.
- bjladams0
^ i know a guy who decided to become a dr at age 35. all he had was an associates degree. he's now a dr. took him 10 years and a lot of work.
- randommail0
Props to identity for coming to this epiphany.
My recommendation: get out of Branding and get back into Design. You know the difference.
- identity0
i think im going to take a mixed bag of suggestions here and take some vacation days and readjust some things - get priorities straight and the like. I meant the post to serve as an AA of sorts for others who may have gone through a similar situation. The Whitewolf story was fantastic! Not sure if that's exactly what I'm thinking about - but the premise is intriguing. Thanks for the feedback guys!