Job tips
Job tips
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- shapesalad-4
A new better job? Quit design, study something grownups do, become an optician or something stable, a career you can grown into instead of grow out of which what most design (especially digital) is like.
- A 60yo ophthalmologist = expert, trusted, respected. A 60yo designer = no longer relevant, slow, stuck in old ways, not fresh, too expensive.shapesalad
- I regret my career choice at aged 16 when you want to do something cool and not something boring.shapesalad
- Have you considered a shift to UI, UX or product design? It’s not as creative but the money is therenb
- I have a close friend who is about my age and has been an optician longer than I’ve been a designer. He makes less than half what I do.nb
- Ophthalmologist is a different career but also it’s very easy to say “if I was a doctor....” when you aren’t facing 9 years of collegenb
- Yeah, UX is a large field and the other designers I know working in this are making good money.Chimp
- I'm pushing 60, still design and the only thing I regret about the industry is how unstable it becomes. I'm not irrelevant or stuck in old ways because...CyBrainX
- I still have a passion for the work I do. I just started a new job last week that has a lot of staff that seem the same, older, still doing great work.CyBrainX
- Yeah I’m in a new job, too. it’s more mature because I went looking for the things that matter to me.nb