who stole the soul?
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- kerus
ever work somewhere that just sucked the life right out of you and your career to the point of wanting to just call it quits and work in a factory somewhere?
this place has me so down on myself and my career that i honestly don't even know if i CAN find a new job.. or if maybe i just do really suck at this stuff..
/vent
thanx.
- dopepope0
oh hells yeah. It's quite possibly the most dreadful feeling one can ever feel. It's no good...get out. Do something else.
- kerus0
it doesnt help that i have a lot of BS goin on in my life all at once..
but im really just like wondering what the hell to do.
i went to a community college. i dont have a "design degree".. ill prolly never be an "art director"..
i need a nice drug addiction or something and cash in on life early in a glossy-eyed haze of glory..
- Mimio0
Don't let them steal your soul. Change your frame of mind. Do a personal project or something.
- kerus0
Yeah good call, i think a nice website enema is in order.
F what i've been trolling with for 6 months now.and lots of chinese food.
- Gorbie0
Put a picture of Otis Redding in all your work.
Insta-soul!
- Bio0
mmm.. .. as much shit as i talk, i dig what youre sayin.
i had to work some major shit jobs right outta school. it hurts the pride and even though it sucks, you just get stuck in a rut to the point where you dont even care. you just wanna pass the time until something falls in your lap.
depression sets in quickly with a nice helping of apathy to boot.
it is not an easy thing to force one's self into caring again. basically the only thing that saved me was primising myself that for at least 30 minutes a night, i would sit down and try to work on something for my folio. i was working 12 hr nightshifts at the time, so it was hard.
just try to keep your eye on a goal. anything at all to keep the sinking feeling of depressed apathy at bay. depression is not so bad if you can handle it... but apathy is what will start fucking you up permanently.
best wishes from me. and i fucking mean it.
eric.
- kerus0
bio: thanx a lot man. you hit the nail on the head too. apathy is definitely the word. and it sucks.
good advice. thank you very much...
- Gorbie0
My advise would be to change something in your life. Doesn't have to be work related at all.
You need a fresh maker!
- ape0
"Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying."
/John Stuart Mill
- Anetalaya0
that's why I only have one week left on this job... then god knows, but the important thin is: I'll be happy again.
Act positive, when I decided to quit, I said: ok, just like I got this job, I'll get another. And guess what? yesterday I got a call, a agency offering my a job, is jest a 3 months job (because somebody is on maternity lead) but hey, I have the chance to stay there after the 3 months if the like me...
BE FUCKING POSITIVE !!!
;p
- JazX0
do it, I did, I quit a job went to Africa and had great fun for two years, before I decided to come back and face reality in the Western World. I should go back though. ;)
- lee_b0
thats a nice quote ape.
having some kind of goal is definately one of the keys. right now i'm working towards moving to japan. i'm focused.
my job isn't so bad, i've just been there long enough.
- Redmond0
I hate getting my work "imporved" so much that I'm embarassed to be associated with the end product.
- lee_b0
yeah, i know that feeling redmond
- sexypixel0
i hear ya redmond, thats where the soul gets taken, when your client thinks he can do it better than you and fucks with the design, right now I am making a diagram that shows how my clients companys departments all fit together..... and guess what he asked for... you guessed it ... a fucken jigsaw puzzle diagram, I pleaded with him but no, he thinks its an innovative idea. wow, how original, so i made him one that looks nice, as nice as a jigsaw puzzle can look, and he's just come back with some changes... he wants each jigsaw peice to be a different color... oh yum, thats gonna look soo fucken tastefull.
the soul has been ripped out of this job, i sometimes feel like sending my clients a copy of photoshop and a pdf of "learn web design in a day"
//rant
- unknown0
lighten up... it's only life :)
- sexypixel0
and sometimes life can be a load of horse shite
- taragee0
RUN
- lind0
hey Kerus, I can completely relate...life isn't great right now but it used to be worser than hell a few years ago because my then boss just dehumanized me to the point where I just got angry and depressed every minute -- and I was only working part time. Anyhow, quitting is the only option, even if you don't have another job waiting -- if this job is completely sucking your soul.