Getting older and working in design
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I'll turn 38 next March.
I'm into graphic design and related stuff since 1999, it's been 16 years.I feel I've never completely become expert in any particular area of creation. I'm ok at illustration, i'm ok at graphic design, i'm ok at photography, i'm a beginner in web design stuck in basic-mid css+html.
I have a comfortable job since 15 years where I do lots of various thing, but all those thing are basic stuff created rapidly for TV. Never been in an agency to create serious elaborated stuff. 99.99% of the stuff i create at work will never be in my portfolio because its all basic shitty stuff. All my portfolio is made of personal projects except a few freelance jobs i'm doing at home after work. But i like my job, pays well too.
I know i will never find any job like the one i got right now. Its unique. If i ever lose that job i will be in front of a wall. I have zero idea what I would do or what I want to do.
Graphic design doesn't excite me as much as before. I was creating stuff non-stop a few years ago. Now, since a few years I only got a creative rush like 1 or 2 time a year... and it last a few weeks or couple month. Rest of the time i dont feel like creating or i dont feel what i try to do looks good.
Creating stuff for clients that tells you what they want and gives you 500 words to fit on a business card. I'm fucking tired of that shit. Creating stuff with shitty logos and shitty pictures that doesn't fit the canvas size and ratio, i'm fucking tired of that shit.
And everyone is a designer these days. The profession has been diluted in all those "Website for 50$" and "Logo for 5$" websites...
So, yeah. Getting older and working in graphic design is not cool for everyone. It's really motivating and cool when you're 22 years-old. But now at 40, its another game and lots of us are starting to get confuse and unsure about certain aspects of all this.