"IT'S NOT WORTH IT"
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- omg0
i learned that when you design at an advertising company, you just find yourself a puppet to big corporations.
- _niko0
heven't read it yet but THEY'RE not curing cancer either.
we've spent over $2 billion per year in the US alone and we' haven't gotten any closer.
At least we're making the world a cooler and more beautiful place.
- yes they are closer actually.qTime
- http://www.youtube.c…discoduro
- they've found another 10000 things that don't cure cancer, which means they are closer to the solution.Amicus
- With all th new corporate logos, detergent & soda pops, and the need for them, the world truly is a more beautiful placePeter
- there are an infinite number of things that do not cure cancer. eliminating 10,000 of them does not mean you're closer to a solution.monNom
- cure.monNom
- i think it was irony.i_was
- ukit20
Exactly. You think being a medical researcher is easy or fun?
- fredddddd0
So no one should be anything but a doctor, teacher or firefighter?
- fredddddd0
Or scientist (for good causes)?
- No. But no one should allow themselves to be used like creatives tend toGlitterati_Duane
- He's just saying to put things in perspectiveGlitterati_Duane
- You can really the difference in the thread when the USAers turn up.qTime
- GeorgesII0
aaaahhhhh comon it's a goddamm example,
do you always jump on the strawman's cock like that?
You full well understand what I meant, it was an example:)
- ukit20
Hundreds of year from now, people will be amazed at the short, brutal lives that we lived
- you my friend, need a shot of bourbon.zenmasterfoo
- agreed, both with the post and the follow up.colin_s
- CanHasQBN0
i found this out five years into my career. so i quit my 9-5 last year, moved to another country, and accept work from my old job whenever i feel like it. seriously kiddos, it's not worth it. there are so many other ways to make money.
- Still talking about prostitution.
Boy was my pimp mad when he found out I left...!CanHasQBN - haha!!zenmasterfoo
- lolGlitterati_Duane
- Still talking about prostitution.
- sublocked0
Article kinda rambled on and could really use some edits. Overall good theme and idea though.
- jfletcher0
happy in life, do what you do... no happy? Change.... it ain't that hard, but I guess it's just hard enough :)
- omg0
i sense a jaded view from designers who do not think that their talents and roles cannot benefit or contribute to society, more so than any doctor or fireman.
- Design's important. But clients act like if I don't get their brochure done ASAP someone's gonna die.Glitterati_Duane
- When really it ain't that serious.Glitterati_Duane
- But if the fire department doesn't rush to that fire someone probably will die.Glitterati_Duane
- nb0
More importantly, when did we start putting doctors into the same category as firemen?
- exador10
a lot of this depends on the agency or place you work, plus the industry you're in.
I spent more than a few rotten years working in the ad-agency side of things..lots of late nights, round the clockers, etc etc. with nothing really to show for it...although i have to admit, it's the sort of thing that can be fun when you're in your early 20's.By the time i was in my late 20's, I'd gotten married, and it was all starting to look pretty ridiculous..especially to my wife who's a school teacher and more or less expected me to be getting home for supper at night...
I made the jump around 1999 to a consulting firm that was rich in highend developers but had nothing in the way of a design dept. I became the design dept.
It's been 12 or more years now, and I've been through the bubble, bought and sold a few times/ mergers etc etc....and am still with the same guy that hired me 12 years ago....(although it's a new company at this point)
I've stayed with him this long for a few reasons, but primarily its because:
1) he's a father too and expects to go home at 5pm
2) he has a crazy knack for finding amazing clients and getting awesome work from them
3) he's not a micro manager...he gives you a job, then goes away...his attitude is that he hired you with the understanding that you're an expert at what you do....so go ahead and do it....
closing in on 13 years this month and I am as happy as ever...as long as you have a clear work/life balance and really enjoy what you do, you'll be ok...
the trick is to find where you fit....
our office/firm is in many ways similar to 37 signals in terms of what we do and the size we are and how we do business....
not identical...but close enough for horseshoes and handgrenades...
so it's about as close to a perfect/fun/great working atmosphere as you can get....
find that, and you've found happiness...- very true... the right company / boss / clients / projects can make all the difference...vaxorcist
- a HUGE amount of the shit work in our business comes from agency being too desparate, taking ANY clients, not cultivating great future projects,etc...vaxorcist
- It is a salesman's job to say yes to everything. So salesmen should not be setting deadlines.monNom
- boobs0
I don't listen to Jesus Christ, Henry Thoreau, Rousseau, Aristotle, Proust, Camus, Sartre, Plato, or Mao.
Why would I listen to this guy?
- cannonball19780
What this article doesn't explain is what he'd have rather been doing the several hours he wasnt kissing his kids.
- pablo280
this reminds me of a book I read few years ago: "9.99 by Frederic Beigbeder"
http://www.amazon.com/9-99-A-Nov…