Taking a job as a resume filler?
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- shellie0
[sorry this is long]
You've got a little doubletalk going because you mention pride as an issue in reference to taking the job or not. To me, that gives off the aura that you do indeed think you're a better designer, even though you're right out of school. I haven't looked at your work, but you may very well be the next big designer dude. I've seen and interviewed countless new additions to the workforce, but the thing that turns me off the most is when I get the feeling they think they can't learn anything for whatever company I'm staffing for. There's a couple people I can remember that I staffed and regretted doing so, just because their snotty attitude made it impossible to get work done in a variety of ways. It's such a bullshit point of view from someone who has little experience outside of the classroom (in my opinion). But, if you don't need to work and you can afford to let your pride pick your next job, go for it. Not everyone has that luxury so live it up because that won't last forever. Maybe you'll get lucky before your support runs out and you'll never have to take that sub par job situation.
If you're right out of school and you need to work, take the job. Don't assume you can't learn anything from taking it. Leave the job if you find something better later. It's all really great experience. Everyone either gets laid off, fired, or decides to leave their first job for whatever reason, and how you deal with those situations is a great education.
But here's a personal experience that might inspire something:
I remember right around I got my first big gig (in house designer at Sony Music) I was posting here. When I go back to my first few threads, I can find it. I got such an interesting introduction to politics as a component in growth in any professional art field (including gallery and fine artists) in this huge corporate structure. It gave me a much thicker skin and probably more experience to fight my way through with a little more tact when I jumped into boutique side of creative and production studios. School never thought me any of that. And, I was able to walk away with a portfolio full of great work that set the tone when traversed into new territory. But most importantly, that experience made me realize that dollars made the decisions, and how to positively point those dollars in my direction (and I'm not just talking salary here). Actualizing your worth into a real, tangible value can give you any kind of opinion that can buy you. The only way to show value is proof. Today my career has developed into something very, very different from that job at Sony but it never would have been like this without it. Career alchemy is a lot harder than you'd think.I hope some of that made sense.