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I started in design doing interactive CD presentations in Macromedia Director back in 2000, then moved into motion graphics for 3 years for a wildlife documentary studio.
When they started to go under, I went corporate to make some money so I could start a family with my high school girlfriend. I worked in a global mining company for 6 years as a web designer.
I left to go into a brand/ad studio (because I thought it would be more fun) and worked under an oppressive creative director for 3 years.
Feeling numb, we sold almost everything we owned and I left to join a design studio on the other side of Australia, in Melbourne. I plan to be here at this studio for a very long time. Just good people with good priorities. I'm about to turn 38 and I'm still married to my high school girlfriend of 21 years and we now have 2 kids.
The next chapter will be selling up in the suburbs and buying a house out in the forest and maybe getting a Land Rover Defender if there is any cash left over.
I know this probably sounds like I have had it easy but I had a pretty rough start and have steadily chipped away at building the life I want over a very long time.
Thanks to everyone who shared in this thread, its heartening to know people have been through some of the same challenges.