Are you talented?
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- qbner
A. Do you consider yourself good at your job and a talent in your field?
B. Is photography / design / coding / art a hobby or is it what you feel you were destined to do?
C. Are you happy with your career trajectory right now or do you wish it was headed in a better direction?
D. Would you rather take an easy job that paid well in a nice office or run your own independent studio and make half as much while working harder?
D. In 10 years, do you expect to basically be doing the same thing?
- qbner0
The last one should be E. D'oh.
- georgesIII0
No to all
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- ukit20
http://www.qbn.com/filter/qbner/…
So many questines! Are you a professional surveyer or sociologist?
- ApeRobot0
A. Probably
B. Hobby/Work
C. Maybe
D. No
D. The big questine
- pango0
A. Better than everyone at the office. but what i really think? not really. they just suck that much.
B.Well i much prefer doing this than anything else.
C.Could be better.
D.Paid well in a nice office. I can always do creative stuff on the side.
E. Hell no. i might kill my self if i keep doing the same thing.
- set0
lol at D
- Morning_star0
A. I just know stuff other people don't.
B. I get up everyday and enjoy going to work.
C. I have found, to my cost, that the grass is NOT always greener. I'm too long in the tooth, i just want to do what i enjoy. Which is what I do.
D. Paid well in a nice office. Autonomy is overrated.
E. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, probably yes.
- Projectile0
A: I'm better than a lot of people, but man some colleagues can just magic the most amazing stuff in minutes!
B: I think this is definitely the best job I could have chosen, for the freedoms it allows us and still doing something I enjoy
C: Yup, I'm happy with where I'm at, but I'd love to be further down the road
D: Paid well, do fun stuff with the money. Have funding for fun projects and gear.
E: Same thing but better paid, better work and I'll be better at it. Plus, I might do something completely different (extreme sports related) and fill the gaps (low season etc) with freelancing
- monospaced0
F: can you rap?
- formed0
A. Yes
B. Destined to do is a heavy statement...I think we, or I, could do many things, so no, not "destined"
C. Yes/No
D. Both
E. Probably, forever I'd guess
- chrisRG0
A. Yes, but only because other people tell me that.
B. This is what I do best and I enjoy it, I don't believe in destine.
C. Very happy.
D. I've chosen the latter. Money is not the most important thing for me, my freedom and my life are.
E. Probably yes, but nowadays my time is 50x50 freelancing x my own studio, hope to be 100% to my own studio.
- benfal990
A. I'm OK
B. Both
C. Better direction
D. I like stability. So, the office job.
D. Yes. I can't do anything else.
- monospaced0
What's with all the workplace polls qbner? I don't have a problem with it but it seems like half your posts are just designer surveys complete with bulleted lists (a-x) of questions. Do you need the results as part of your job or do you just like polling us?
- Bluejam0
A. Yes, but old age and apathy for this industry has eroded what talent I have (left)
B. Was always going to do something creative
C. Many years ago I was offered an opportunity, at the time it seemed like a step backwards, I regret that decision to this day.
D. Work for myself, less money and more freedom please.
E. Until I die, but on my terms.
- set0
He loves whipping out his poll
- moldero0
I was destined to drag knee at 150mph but this will have to do for now.
Because some google robot or some AI site template site thing will take over everything I already do now, in 10 years I hope to be running my own food business, because not everyone needs media but everyone needs to eat, as soon as the legalities get figured out the conversion on my food truck begins, (looking to start by march - may hopefully)unlike the states I'll be running the only food truck where I'm at.
freelancers don't retire and I'm 40, so yeah, food biz.
- SO much profit in food, and if it's good you get very loyal customers. I've always dreamt of it too. What kind of food?set
- surf food like chilli dogs and karne asada fries, none of that stuff is here yetmoldero
- Food truck is my retirement career, for sure.monospaced
- + its cheap and non seasonal, oh and shakes, juices and ice cream (because its hot as shit down here)moldero
- I would go there just to kick back by the truck, drink coronas and eat tacosmonospaced
- and surf, because I'll be parked at the good surf spotsmoldero
- blissset
- I can't surf for shit, but I'm all about sponging or bodysurfing.monospaced
- haha, I love the word "sponging"moldero
- we had to eventually embrace the insult and own itmonospaced
- I still go, in the summer the waves here are big and break fast, I only pull out the short board on those when I'm feeling like a challenge, sponging on those is way more fun thoughmoldero
- like a challenge, sponging on those is way more fun though, 5' over head surfing is 10' overhead spongingmoldero
- exador10
A) yes...I've always had a passion for design and graphics....from the time i was a kid...I don't think anyone is ever gonna be 'the best' at something, but I think I'm pretty darn good...
B) Was always gonna end up in the arts some way or another...this is the path i took....glad i did...it's been an awesome ride so far...
C) fairly happy...I'm the creative director here, so that's pretty cool :) but I'm heading back to school this winter to learn html/css (fuck off, i'm older than most of you... ;)
D) I've done both...and both have a lot of good things about them...could have stayed on my own years ago....was doing quite well...but was invited to be the CD here by my old manager from a previous company, and it seemed like a good idea...very glad i did it...
E) what i was doing 10 years ago was in someways similar to this, but it's all design in the end, right? 10 years ago, i was doing mainly web design, etc....NOW?...now mainly it's software design and UI etc...10 years from now? no idea...but I'm sure I'll be designing something...it's apparently what I'm good at ;) I'll probably be doing this kind of thing, or something like it when I'm 80....
- set0
Seriously fucking cool stories guys
- nylon0
A I do yes.
B. destined to do back then. Now I just do it because it sustains my lifestyle
C. Better direction
D. You deal with cunts all day when you work for yourself and then they dont want to pay up!
E. In 10 years, hopefully not working with cunts