is this as good as it gets?
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- dreez0
I have worked at a Senior Web Developer for a couple start-ups and as some piss ant design guy who color corrects photos all day and designs web graphics, and marketing materials like a machine.
I seriously think my first mistake was taking this love for the web and making money. It use to be a cool way to try new techniques in Photoshop and learn new code in HTML, ASP, and PHP.
Now with the economy in the state that it is and my wrist with carpel tunnel, eyes with glasses (had 20/20 before I started staring into the screen daily) and thighs like my grandma from sitting in a deskchair daily. I wish I would of kept the web as a hobby and done some other kind of work.
I just had a phone interview yesterday with this guy who put an ad in the paper for a web design position. Told me he received 150 resumes and was talking like I was just another piece of shit designer. Not even looking at my work or the fact I ran a design team for 2 years and have on the job experience handling a web site that received million hits daily. It was about "can you answer phones, or fax & do you speak another language?"
Huh?
I have found freelancing is much more rewarding, but getting the clients is the tricky part. But working for someone fulltime designing graphics and web sites can really make you think your working in a sweatshop sometimes with the hours and the work load.
DEFINITLY DISILLUSIONED.