is this as good as it gets?
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- chilaquil0
hmm... maybe he did get fired...
I feel for him. The very very first real world experience I had in design was interning and freelancing at a world renown, but small (15 peeps) design shop. Back then I was all stary eyed working with these "big name" art directors for all these well known brands. That was the honeymoon period.
But that didn't last long and since the freelance was sporadic after graduation, I got a full time job at a promotions agency. Also working in an account for a fairly well known brand. At first it was kind of exciting. You got to work with the copy writer got to do a couple new things... but after that, every project started getting killed halfway through. I began having problems with the Creative Director who was a bitch. She just flat out didn't like me and did everything to get me in trouble. And it went both ways. I was a litttle arrogant having recently worked at that other studio and my attitude didn't help either. But soon that job became hell. Then I finally got fired for "not being a team player."
I chucked it to experience (but it did affect me quite a bit). Then took a job at a small ad agency. That was the worst experience of my life and made me appreciate the previous job. All of the work that we had to crank out was pure shit. I knew it was going to be hard to get any portfolio material out of that place. The agency partners didn't even know how to use photoshop (it was only 5 of us including the partners) and didn't care at all about the quality of the work. I became very disilusioned at that point and didn't care much about that job. It was hard to find another while working full time though. I got fired again for being late excessively... I said "fuck it" and decided not to work for anyone else anymore. I was probably not cut out to be anyone's employee. I began freelancing and haven't looked back. Freelancing is a little better but you still have to struggle with stupid clients who don't appreciate your work. I saved enough money freelancing where I'm hoping to open a non-design related business and I'm only going to take pro-bono work that I like, and work on personal projects. I love design too much, to let money get in the way of it...