All About You
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What was your first job title?
Designer / Illustrator in a printshop and infographer in a local newspaper, just finished my degree in Graphic Design. Learned a lot about discipline and dealines, very helpfull until now. Relly my first paid "gigs" were some comics I made when younger, changed my life, I was a shy introvert with lots o fantasies and a crazy imagination... after this, I knew I want to work on "something" related to graphics, art...
What is your current job title?
Jumped from graphic design aprentice to CD, in my prior 5 employments, in a + 27 years long career. Worked in hundreds of projects, in different tasks, from smallish enterprises to big companies. Knew lots of people, and learned a lot from them. Now, I'm self-employed, since 5 years and half. I do websites, animation and illustration, gd for print,... for agencies or "direct-clients" I get back in those years working for others.
Where do you see your professional career going? Where do you want it to go?
Prob. doing the same, I love my work, I´m really happy working "solo", had worked in and managed big agency teams, but now, I don´t want to go back to this. Love the freedom of working "alone", the challenge of getting the jobs, the day by day learning processes, I feel I own my life, I do way more money now than ever, agency times gave me the security I needed when groving my daugthers, now, I want to get involved in exciting, challenging projects, but never loosing again my feedom.
Got lots of side projects, comic and illustration projects, but I've had to postpone them due to the amount of work I've got this year.
I'm not planning to retire, god willing, I'll work in the field until i die.
What are your hobbies?
Riding my bikes, EATING and COOKING (I'm basque), drawing and painting, doing and reading COMICS and writing, reading all I can, scifi films and aesthetics, get drunk with friends... long list.
Many of them, delayed with this covid overworking madness I'm into now.
What challenges are you having?
Nothing important; but prob. the lack of time for studying and learning more things, and for exercising. Yes, the lack of TIME for no-work related things.