Why do we do this?
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- orrinward0
I'm 22 so I'm fresh blood.
I've been pursuing some form of creative practice since I was about 15. I was interested before but had decided that this is what I wanted to do.
I hope to get a job in some form of design soon and pursue that as long as I enjoy it. I've had 7 years of playing around and developing skills in a broad range of sectors and I feel I'm maturing to a point now where I'd like to really hone in on something.
Ultimately I'd like to be able to make a living off of some of my entrepreneurial ideas, but I don't have the time or money in my life to dedicate to those just yet.
I've only worked in the industry for a year on placement and I had the time of my life in that year - Partly due to my job but also due to the life I built. I'm now in a situation where I do want to develop and progress a career, but ultimately I want to support the other things I started in that year.
I think I can be satisfied in design/art for the rest of my working life, but I doubt I'll stick with a single area for the whole time. I'm too erratic in my lifestyle to stay in one spot physically and with regard to employment.
I love design so far because I like to create things and come up with new ideas. I'm a natural problem solver/solution finder and the most enjoyable place I've found to use this talent is through design and creative practice in general.
I'm a genuinely unique thinker and I find art and design is an easy outlet for my thoughts. I don't have a particular passion for a set of tools or industry as such, I just enjoy what the industry can challenge me with and what I can bring to it.
Whether this will last or not I don't know. I'm far newer to it all than most of you guys so I can't really say what I've just said will stick, but this has been my aim, albeit a vague one, for 7 years and I've not once thought 'This isn't the direction I want to push myself in'.