Working in-house?
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- rascuache0
I just did this for 3.5 years.
I loved it at first, was really idealistic about changing the way the company looke, which was perhaps, in retrospect, quite naive. But it took me quite a while to earn enough respect to have a decent say in big design decisions, even though I was the only designer.
Nobody really listened to me for like a year, arguably they still didn't when I left, but that was after a structural change which admittedly put my nose out of joint a wee bit.That political aspect was a bit of a shock, though there's no saying that every company will be like that. I also felt quite isolated at times and found it difficult to get other parts of the company to empathise with some of the requirements of the job, but I guess you get that with any external client eh?
Positives were that some of my colleagues will truly be friends for life, so I was lucky there. Also the money was great and it was really secure.
TLDR: What johnny_wobble said.