I quit design for good
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- Luckyitem
I'm sick of battling clients over designing arched/swooshed logos, sifting through stock photos, their conservative design choices, and their lack of taste.
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I quit!
- lindkvistcom0
that is what your clients should hear! why do people ask us to do something for them? and why cant they let us do it... hmm...
- lindkvistcom0
i love clients :)
- lindkvistcom0
i am a suckup...
- brundlefly0
God Darren, don't do it
you have too much talent to be giving up! Suck it up, and work until you hit the point when you can call the shots, in all aspects of your designing!
Alistair
- brundlefly0
and my plan is at 45 years of age to become a carpenter, all crazy oldschool style, I have about 12 years to get there, but its' my dream
- Geith0
do like Kioken and fire them all!
- unknown0
You liar. Youre not quitting. Why would you make up a lie like that?
- typax0
swallow your creative vision and pay the rent. shit you should see the crap im working on right now. sack up, man. all the client wants is something done. it could be a lot worse. like bank teller or cashier.
if its so frustrating that you cant be creative, do personal work.
paint, screenprint, whatever it takes. just dont let the stupid shit that affords you to make a living piss you off too much*damn my english is improving
- Tyrone0
Dude, I agree. Fuck this shit. Quit. I'm getting there myself. Plumber! No one gives their opnion to the plumber. And if the client doesn't pay, you rip out the pipes.
- rasp0
and no one says to a plumber
"oh use this style of pipe"
"put that pipe there"
"can you change the colour of that pipe"
"can you do something similar to a pipe ive seen somewhere else"
"yeah thats a nice pipe, but can we try a different pipe"
"i dont like the pipe"
"my wife likes this pipe"
"i want a new pipe, but i dont want it to look too new"
"what was wrong with the old pipe"
"can you make that pipe bigger"
"what would that pipe look like in red"
etc etc
- rasp0
i'm nearly ready to give up on design for good too... and try to keep it as a hobby i love instead of a job i detest - sometimes.
- Recoil2k20
thats my picture!
- typax0
ask your doctor about the 'Easy Does It' design pill
it is clinically proven to get rid of client hate syndrome.
- Tyrone0
right Rasp! That's exactly what I'm sayin. I teach at Pratt and I tell all my students. Quit and go to plumbing school! They think I'm joking. HA!
- JazX0
bye
- unknown0
hehe i did too :)
- cookie0
I say quit and head overseas.
Cookie has spoken.
"what's a pension plan?"
- Mick0
This isn't the only industry where clients have so much say/power.
You can't escape it when you're offering services for someone - even hookers have to do some things they don't like for thie clients ;)
- Tyrone0
You mean we're not hookers? We get fucked like hookers.