Graphic Designers
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- zombiewoof0
Sure ive considered a career change... you know, like when the client is pissing all over something you poured your soul into for two weeks.. and the prick has the audacity to say that their brother-in-laws' sister can do far better work...at those moments I drift to career choice number two... a park ranger at some remote natiuonal forest.. yea thats the ticket...
*wakes from the daydream*
uhhh what... sure i think dom casual would be just the thing for this layout ...jackass...
- liquid0
if I werent a designer.....then I would probably be a lawyer....thats what I went to school for....
The only thing about being a designer is that I feel I missed the boat somehow when it went from flat to interactive.... I think I am going to do the sideways thing with tv/media production... advertising type thing..... I think I am a better idea person then I am a designer... if I had a team that could produce my ideas I would make a get advertising or creative director....
wheres dutchies bumped thread?
- DutchBoy0
what thread?
- ********0
graphic design was my career change-- not to say I wouldn't consider another one, if I knew how to do anything else
- radar0
I weren't a designer - I would probaly become a lonely IT guy.
A good alternative to leaving the biz would be like project manager or something more administrative.
- yurimon0
I am thinking about being an entrepreneur. I have the design sense to start A business. I am studying various aspects of business on my own. Everything I come up with, within one year it materializes. I hate other people makin money off shit you came up with first. If artists master business with todays technology, artists could rule the world.
- Gorbie0
what the hell were you doing before graphic design, Rand?
- mr_angry0
If this design thing doesn't pan out I think I will persue carpentry. Good security, and think of the power tools...
- soda0
when your hobby becomes your career, get another hobby.
thats' my advice for the day..
oh yeah, and don't eat yellow snow...
- mr_snuggles0
Oh yes, many times have a yearned to go back to a simpler and more gratifying career. I just recently resigned from the company I have been with for the past 6 years which was a very tough decision, but I had to for my own mental well-being.
So even this past weekend I was considering taking a break from this industry. But already freelance opportunities are coming my way, a lot of recognition for my hard work is starting to materialize and I truly feel rejuvinated about this industry and the potential we all have to make a difference.
- mogwai0
my degree is in 3D animation, i've just had to play graphic designer at all of my jobs. my true passion for the last 15 years is painting. my career change from computer land is Gallery owner and am working on it.
When i hit my thirties i really started dwelling on life-path decisions, do i really want to be sitting in front of this damn computer in 10 years>? Do you?
- soda0
it's all about that mogwai... I'm shit scared of looking back in ten years and thinking about what I didn't do.
I feel like now I have more opportunities than I ever have, we all do. The older you get the more you can achieve, we just condition ourselves into believing the opposite.
- mogwai0
I like that view Soda. It helps.
i guess the hard part for me is figuring out what i want to acheive. But just having this strong feeling that i want to acheive something WORTHWHILE
- yurimon0
I wish I could get paid for what I do best... To be a gigalo. porn star
- yurimon0
Build on what you already have and know.
- -sputnik-0
around 2002 i got sick of everything and became a banker for about 10 months.
money was good but it was lame, and it renewed my appreciation for what i love to do.
- paraselene0
i'm a design autodidact, really, and only recently (less than a year ago) made the switch from doing other stuff (phd program, translation, working on low-budget documentaries) to earning my roosters and lentils as a designer.
i sometimes daydream about going back to school, but i don't really consider it because i know i'm not an academic at heart. if anything, the last five years have taught me that just because you're good at something, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's good for you.
i like to think that i'll have a number of different careers before i become independently wealthy and start my collection of cezanne landscapes.
- fullerc0
I've been a print designer for the past 8 years and it's getting old.
I've thought of going back to school to be an architect but now I'm trying to figure out how to get laid off and collect unemployment.
