Who works full time?
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- chubba0
I spent 6yrs studying and I learnt more in my first 6months of my working life, than I did at college. Dissertations...!!?!? how the fuck does that help you design stuff... i believe education is necessary, but it can be a load of bollocks too.
- carver0
i work 3 days a week in the office...thursdays, i'm alvailable for consultation, cos that's the day i write for various trade magazines, debt cover and start-up capital/risk management etc. i like t kepp friday for new business development and stuff, so that i can get really banjaxxed at lunch and go back to work and stand on the wall outside and 'moon' my workers!! that's FLASH my ARSE, for the damn yankees in the house...and i get around £55k, so, yeah...shit really, but it pays the bills, just. i got private health care and a lot of garden appliances! no dogs! waste of money!
- Bio0
word on that chubba.
my first 6 months out of school taught me more about the design world AND life AND myself, than my whole time at school.
sad that this should be true, but it seems to be that way for most of my old classmates as well.
funny thing is, out of my graduating class (11 people) i'd say that half arent working in design at all. and some of those cats had solid folios.
- unknown0
working means cancer
- Bio0
everything means cancer nowadays.
- rh0
I work the 9-to-whenever-full-time gig. It's nice to know that I'm not alone when it comes to having friends that turned out to be bums.
Then again, I guess it's not nice.
Does any design/art school really prepare you for the design world?
- chubba0
nope.
- unknown0
for myself, I'm not working in design/advertising yet. I have a BA in Advertising and a minor in Architecture. If I would have stayed through the architecture program for 5 years (did 2 1/2) my brain would have melted.
But Advertising, concentrating on creative work/web work and architecture went well together, learned more about graphic design in architecture than in advertising actually.
I'm not sure exactly what I'd like to do within what I studied.
I hope to go to grad school eventually, I'd like to teach in college someday. Would like to work at a magazine, would totally love to do graphic design at an architecture firm, and web work.
- Bio0
sadly, none that i know of.
- ximeraLabs0
i'm 29 and i work 24/7 ...
but thats just because i'm an obsessive freak when it comes to design i think... ;)
- Jamesh0
I work ALOT less hours than I used to for the same money so I cool with it.
It's good to even have a job these days.
- wonderwagon0
...8:00am-4:30pm M-F
...5:00pm-11:00pm M-F
...12:30pm-12:30am F-Sweeeeeeeeeeeee
love,
w.w.
- BonSeff0
fulltime over here too. + freelance on the weekends and a few evenings. i need to stop that and start living a little i think
- ApeGrope0
I have to admit...this whole thread started when this girl I've been trying to get with calls me up and asks me to go to the beach with her. Oh well! At least I'm making money!
- mayo0
I'm a full-timer, but i don't mind so much. i love my job. having to hear my roommate and cousin complain about their jobs, work varying hours and weekends reminds me that i'm all good.
- rh0
mg33 - funny thing is that even though I have an AA in Graphic Design and a BH in Communications, I wish I'd have taken computer science or engineering. Probably would have prepared me better for web work.
- unknown0
my fity cents,
i work part time (work work) but i feel that, to be a good designer, i need to be working 24 hrs a day. i find that designing is a lifstyle, not a career choice. im ALWAYS designing, taking pictures, etc....
:)
- gelund0
ApeGrope : Put away a few bucks every paycheck. Plan on taking next summer off and calling up your working friends from the beach AND remember that it's your time you give to the company -- not theirs.
BTW, I've had the past two summers off and would highly recommend it! ;)
- ********0
depends on how you look at it and how much responsibilty you have. BTW, I'm headed to the beach too, Cheers, No just joshing I am stuck behind a computer.
- unknown0
i don't wanna make any enemies here but you lot (the ones that have it EASY) should get a fucking grip and enter the real world. fuck school, you get by making sites for your mates, getting laid and fucking cheerleeders. try the real world of freelance where you don't know where the next job's gonna come from. try juggling 4 days in a studio and juggling 7 screaming clients, while at the same time attempting to get new work so when you're done with the old clients you've got something to work on and pay the rent.
it'd be nice to work on MY projects but i've gotta make a coin.
fucking hell, you'd swear design is a "hobby", it's a JOB.