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Do you work with or know any designers aged 45 to 65?
Where do they all go?- https://www.designwe…shapesalad
- I am this age. I still work.DRIFTMONKEY
- Every time a 35 to 45 year old designer friend quits or gets fired, we have a talk about just walking away from it all and doing something else.nb
- I was under the impression 90% of QBN is within that bracketscarabin
- all good, working, teaching, recovering from ronasted
- I'm very close to this age. next year. still working, still have a fulltime gig, still doing freelance. Still here. Hi!capn_ron
- I consult these days - 20-ish years being a wage slave is plentysausages
- me too @ "I am this age. I still work."GuyFawkes
- me too etc etc... i'm curious who here ISN'T w/in that age range (younger)PonyBoy
- I’m 39scarabin
- But yeah, i’m over design outside my own personal projectsscarabin
- I had that talk multiple times about how graphic design is a 20s-30s job.Bennn
- Hence all the bad design and horrific font choices that the "Me, Me, Me generation" are creating. Me...start looking up and yelling at the clouds.utopian
- Still designing at 43. Im busier now than I’ve ever been between freelance and the full time gig.brandonp
- I'm still doing it at 47MondoMorphic
- Gen X -> 40-55. Many of us remember when computer labs starting popping up for the first time. It completely changed the curriculum of graphic design.DRIFTMONKEY
- My plan is to own a pub soon... before 45. So I can still drink at work. Tired of pixel-pushing for clients.Sellies
- There's something almost romantic about that. Being at the genesis of it all.DRIFTMONKEY
- I think it may be the case that we are the first generation that grew up with digital as core part of our work. So in some sense you wouldn't expect to see ayuekit
- lot of older people designing for web etc but in the future there will probably be moreyuekit
- 42, still enjoying it, and feeling I’m better now than when I was 30.dyspl
- Hahaha @shape, 90% designers in Qbn are up 45!! I'm too... Still designing and near the 50's, if we all do this days can ve called "design"OBBTKN
- I am one of these creaturesfadein11
- Me too. 50 next year.Morning_star
- I'm a 48 year old graphic designerBluejam
- i am that age. i work when i want to.renderedred
- ageist as well? haha.fadein11
- 45. Working, teaching, and side-hustling like many here. My buddies in business are all VPs or owner's of their own things. Still in the trenches heremisterhow
- I am 62. Still making a living doing Motion Designdkoblesky
- always wondered if im still able to do my job at an old age.. (29y old). seems possible while scrolling through this thread!milfhunter
- lol when you get to your 40s, you'll realize it's not an old age. You're basically the same as you were at 29 + some aches and pains.MondoMorphic
- 46... 47 this year and still getting it donenecromation
- I got hired by an agency at 45. I was already the oldest person there. I stayed on for 14 years! Now I'm freelancing and noticing plenty of ageism out therenuggler