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- timeless7
RIP of the day
My career as a designer.
Been out of work since June 2024. What do you think I can do for the rest of my working life (15/20 years)?
Wrong/right/sarcastic answers only.
- https://s.abcnews.co…dbloc
- Maybe you can retire early in a lower cost economy, like Somalia? Average annual income is under $600 USD, for $6k you're good for a decade.everyangle
- OnlyFanspalimpsest
- We've all been through those ups and downs, as long as you keep learning skills and kickstarting your own projects you will bounce back for sure. Hang in there!spl33nidoru
- I'm in betwixt career(s), freelance, etc. as well @timeless. it's shit some days, BUT other days? Less so...
...Hang in there!
XOideaist - AIutopian
- username does not check out
but anyway, what kind of design do you do?
Plenty of jobs for UXUI designers everywheregrafician - Maybe plenty of jobs but even more applicants. Been looking for something new since March. Getting interviews and making it to final few but not the final cut.microkorg
- Where do you want to work?
What are your former colleagues doing?bainbridge - Looker Studio... there's still an element of design in those.canoe
- Agreed about how many UX/UI jobs there area but they seem so vastly different from what I do - motion design, even though they use the same job title.CyBrainX
- I was in the same position...
but thankfully, a good buddy of mine that's a project manager had recently moved to work at a local electric utility ...exador1 - i was talking to him, and got an offer to join him there as his UI/UX guy...contracting, but it's full-time contract, and he has YEARS worth of projects coming.exador1
- so that's worth exploring...not sure where you are, but look into gigs at unlikely places like utility companies, medical companies etc...exador1
- also, what saved my ass was KNOWING the right people, and them knowing and valuing me...exador1
- not sure what your network is like, but basically hit up every single person you've worked with, co-worker to client...exador1
- and see if there's any stones you haven't turned over yet so to speak...exador1
- Timeless, whatever you end up doing, don't quit on yourself.utopian
- Any hobbies / interests you can turn into a sustainable (money and mind) thing?canoe
- I hate to say it, but I agree with utopian re: AI. It's a whole new realm.
For a while, at least.Nairn - I completely pivoted ~8 years ago. Started saying yes to any “building” work. Ended up making sets for SNL and other shops, & now run the floor at one of them.hardhat
- ^ username chks out...
OP>I'm in the same boat... i'm making ends meet freelancing and helping out brands here and there but its not so sustainable... yes toAI_me_ - flipping burgers? doing something with your hands? something AI cant replace for the upcoming 10 years at least..milfhunter
- Enlist!garbage
- LOL @flipping burgers :)))grafician
- When somebody can't find a job in this plentiful industry I call it "skills issue"grafician
- "I'm not here to make friends, I'm here to win."palimpsest
- @pali do you have a new job or still coding scripts for your tourism client after 20 years?grafician
- mort_9
- The Kama Suturepalimpsest
- ^ lolmort_
- flol pali!
_niko's been mentoring you!Continuity - Haha excellent, my work here is done_niko
- I'm not even worthy of your gaze, master.palimpsest
- :):):)_niko
- stick to the Hoist or the Ramp.
Zimmer if you're feeling frisky.Fax_Benson - Hip Hip Hooray?sab
- Oh no wait half this forum is fucking old :)))grafician
- Eat. A. Dick.palimpsest
- What age are you graf?mort_
- all of you are older than me so I will post last and close the lights around here bitches :))grafician
- futurefood3
UFO of the day
Yooooo! Captured two bright, fast moving objects in formation similar to the last post. This time, I was monitoring the camera directly when I noticed them in the top frame. Filmed in infrared on December 01, 2025 @ 23:08
I immediately looked up to visually see them and NOTHING was there! Nothing but black sky and the moon. Trippiest thing ever.
I tried finding them again in-camera, they were gone.They made zero sound and seemed invisible to naked eye. WTF?
Confirmed they were not satellites. Screenshot below
Objects circled in red
https://imgur.com/a/cNvPG9JVideo clip here:
- damn, forgot to add proper image links to display.futurefood
- +1utopian
- I don’t see anything in the videomonospaced
- ^
Beginning of the video, top left corner.ApeRobot - Ah.monospaced
- how far is the closes milbase?sted
- *closeststed
- so probably satellitesgrafician
- bainbridge2
Punches For:
Food venues and shops where the staff shout something like "welcome in" to the air every time someone walks in the door.
Rather than just saying hello when you make eye contact.
It's like they've been forced to say hello to people.
- They are being forced to say itcanoe
- It seems like a "policy" but does any customer really appreciate it?bainbridge
- Ask Karencanoe
- I hear you, but I'll take fake over-zealous greetings over screw-faces any day_niko
- Irasshaimase!Squiddy
- @Squiddy my first association. BTW, read "Convenience Store Woman" novel. It's great.jagara
- Right?! in izakayas it's part of the vibes. Thanks for the novel suggestion, looks interesting.Squiddy
- @Squiddy the novel is a pretty dark depiction of Japanese society. Kind of a dark comedy.jagara
- canoe0
blog
Client needs 25 books printed, probably 52 pages or so, full color... has anyone had any luck with this?
- Printers is what I'm looking forcanoe
- Online printers or local, doesn't matter, just needs to be hard boundcanoe
- https://www.blurb.co…utopian
- Thanks utope!canoe
- I take it, you used them before?canoe
- Yes, good quality, pricing is reasonable for short runs. Pay the extra money to have their logo removed from the binding.utopian
- +1 on blurb, at least from past experience. I've got a bunch of photo books done through them and quality has been excellent.monNom
- Had mixed results with Blurb. They botched the cover on a proof to the point that I didn't feel confident with the initial design and had to pivot a full...duckseason
- ...bleed approach. Also, the binding started falling apart on a lot of books. I don't necessarily fault them for this, as they were getting used heavily...duckseason
- ...as menus at a bar. I more so blame the client for skimping on a budget printer, but just putting it out there.duckseason
- But they are good in a pinch and decent value for the money.duckseason
- I had great success with them 10 years ago for beautiful photo books we made for our clients. I recommend them but mostly because they are the only ones.monospaced
- Any on demand printer can do small short run books, but blurb is good if you want hard bound and custom.monospaced
- These guys do an awesome job and you can customize with matte finishes for the cover and interior, with different weights, very good pricing: https://mixam.comdavey_g
- Thanks!canoe
- ArmandoEstrada5
If you sub to Adobe CC
if you try to cancel and go through the 5 "are you sure this is what you want" screens you'll get to the last boss. this one will give you $29m US.
- PonyBoy3
blog
haha... apparently Bullwinkle's my local weatherman...
- hacanoe
- Randy Newman made a career changefuturefood
- omg, I can't hear anything else.Akagiyama
- "Hey Rocky, wanna watch me pull a weather system outta a hat?"dedlaast
- wordtbgoodwillie
- mort_15
- PhanLo5
- hahahhahahaahahaha love itAQUTE
- buy buy buyAQUTE
- I have a pretty good story/experience about XRP I gotta tell here one day, long story short, my coinbase wallet said I had like 50B for like 7 minutesYakuZoku
- I was checking my wallet during a team call on slack because I was bored, then my boss, since he got me into crypto, I interrupted the meeting and shared m scrnYakuZoku
- And the whole team was like SELL THAT SHIT NOW!
It was a damn glitchYakuZoku - My coworker was like How much would you have given me? I was like $50M and he was like That's it? I was like fuck dude that's a shit ton of moneyYakuZoku
- If anyone wants to give me 50M I'll gladly take it, you can even tax the shit out of me with what Bernie would tax me, I would gladly take acceptYakuZoku
- ^haha! Fucking glitches.
Please make a postfuturefood
- PonyBoy3
lunch =
A tasty IPA by Maine Beer Company called 'Lunch' named after a local whale often seen / easily noticeable by what appears to be a bite taken from her fin (thus the nickname 'Lunch')
- Love that beer - never knew the history of the name.stoplying
- One of my favorites too... pricey thoPonyBoy
- there's a "Dinner" as well, probably the better of the two beers IMOmxhxr
- I will look for it... curious tho–What’s that one cost? A pint of Lunch at the grocery store is $9... and usually between $12 & $15 on draftPonyBoy
- palimpsest11
- Do we have to wait until 4am?Ianbolton
- Only time will tell.palimpsest
- The early bird gets the worm.utopian
- 4am gang gang!palimpsest
- #FOFAContinuity
- :spastic:palimpsest
- mort_4
- Her legs look scrumptious.utopian
- Would it kill them to strap on a pair of red stilettos?mort_
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- ^ seeksmort_
- LOL!!!futurefood
- No kink shamingAkagiyama
- Krassy14
- lol totally read it as the second one and thought what else could it be???_niko
- ^ SameContinuity
- ^ ++Krassy
- Yupredneck
- lol, 2nd one!Akagiyama
- hahautopian
- "Heal" what?OBBTKN
- Heil Hit Butt LersGabriel
- Get the heal outta hear!stoplying
- the dungeonmaster said I could be a cleric. Now I shall cast a spell "HEAL THY BURGER"cherub
- Bzzzzt... Your burger is healed.cherub
- LolYakuZoku
- mort_10
- neverscared8
Romania calling
Romania’s defense minister resigns over false claims on his CV
Ionuț Moșteanu said he graduated from a Bucharest university despite never attending the school, local media reported.
- runs 4 agenciesneverscared
- keksted
- Austria calling...
Remember Kurz? :))))
https://en.wikipedia…grafician - You can only do whataboutism, your intelectual limits stop at these cheap shitty "attacks" thinking you're hurting me in some way?
You're just weird
•͡˘㇁•͡˘grafician - i think u are the stoopiest guy around, because u write about kurz, which in this case is an aboutism and complain that iam doing what aboutism...neverscared
- every normal guy would say.. that defense minister is a stinker, its the game u are always playing thats why no one has sympathy for u.neverscared
- kurz is of course is a loser, but iam sure u dont understand the difference between a probe and being already caught.neverscared
- I don't need sympathy on QBN, unlike you :))))grafician
- 'Screw you guys, I'm going home".palimpsest
- Everyone knows you're here to get attention by acting like the lost member of ICP.canoe
- Is this "everyone" with us in the room now?grafician
- Name one person here that likes you.canoe
- what part of I'm not here for sympathy but you are did you not get?grafician
- Shut the fuck up, Donny.monospaced
