Tell me it gets better.
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- Rodimus790
feels like that alot lately..
hopefully someday I'll be designing sites for movies and bands where creativity is appreciated.. Corporate design is no fun
- vespa0
that's very good advice kk, when I was studying I really wanted to do cinematography but the dept of my uni that offered it only let media students in and I was a lowly photography/design student.
I so wish I'd fought for it a bit harder!
- save0
HA!!!!
sausage duty save, I'll like that one...vespa, are you from Australia then!?!?
- vespa0
That was meant to say "It's gotta beat sausage duty"
- vespa0
It's gotta being sausage duty save.
I turned up to a nursing lecture on my first day of uni and didn't realise for about an hour (it was being held outside, I was a long way from the front and couldn't hear a thing!)
I'm constantly surprised I managed to find my way to the UK from Aus!
- slag_you_off0
problem it gets better, but your expectations groe much more exponentially.
ive been a designer for 5 years, and im more disapointed than when I started, even with good money and great clients.
imagine design as a pyrimid, the higher you rise the less jobs there are for you to swap into.
my advice. Make sure your in a dicipline you love. There isnt a day I dont regret spending more time on motion graphics.
- save0
Being an art teacher must be so easy.....
hmmnn, theres a thought???
- ian0
Sweet. I showed up at a teaching interview once cos I didnt know what I had applied for.
Q: Why do you want to become an art teacher?
A: Well, er, my art teachers are crap, I think I could do a much better job than any of them...
I was actually given a place in the second round of applicants.
- Blofeldt0
I was a postman, dug ditches for cable telly and unloaded Bananas off boats at Avonmouth docks before i even considered being a designer. I got onto a Digital Art course becuase I filled out my UCAS form incorrectly in the back of a van coming back from playng a gig in Brighton.
- ian0
Yeah, bring it on man. I wanna be a billionaire.
Job list:
1: part time work in an offy: 7 years
2: Multimedia designer/ animator/ designer monkey: 1 year
3: Printer monkey: 2 months
4: Lounge boy in a shitty pub: 3 months (until one new years eve when I told a barman that he was a gimp. He said if I had a problem I could leave so i did.)Venting is good...
- vespa0
aright I didn't mean to belittle desing stinky, I mean smellvetica. But don't you remember how excited you were when you got your first "real" job? Did you never work properly shite jobs whilst studying design and vow never to go back?
- unknown0
"i find that the more you dislike what you do in your professional life the more you feel thrown into doing something more enjoyable and creative like building your own projects and ideas.
or just getting more fucked at the weekend. one or the other, or both. "
Thats what eric jordan did, had no life, started a own project "2advanced" and ended up a billionaire... :D
- smellvetica0
wow.. it could be worse...
mopper upper in a peep show.
- vespa0
Cleaner in a sausage factory? Is that another name for phone bone?
- save0
1) shelf stacker
2) cleaner in a abattoir
3) clenaer in a sausage factory
4) barman in the roughest nightclub I've ever witnessed in my life, a fight every 15mins
5) barman in the roughest 'pub I've ever witnessed in my life. Had one guy who use to just stand at the bar calling me f-ing this and f-that for no reason. Plus the drinkers use to throw cigartte butts and the landlords pitbull and it use to catch and eat them...
- TransFatty0
i live to work tho
but my love is my work
and
love takes work
so
...
*finishes orange juice
i'll figure it out later
- carpetman0
do you live to work or work to live
have a life outside of design, we are not gods and so we wear out of creating. enjoy what God has created
- vespa0
ooh ooh what was your shittest job in college? I had a shitlist of a cv to rival the worst of them when I was studying. The cleaning toilets part of my job at a seedy late night pool club was up there I've gotta say. Nearly as good as getting urine soaked cigarette butts out of the mens urinals at a shit cafe at the end of a shift.
Well actually my best friend did better, she was doing phone bone for a while!
- save0
Thats what I think everyday...
I did my fair share of really shitty jobs when I was at college, and this is farrrrr better.
cheers vespa