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- studderine
most people on NT. thanks for the inspiration.
- e-pill0
what aspects do you envy? what does one nter here have over another?? its one thing to look up to ones work or ethics but to envy someone you never see and someone you never speak to is very strange. you have a macbookpro now!! maybe perhaps you are the one that is envied around here and not the other way around...
just who is that you envy so much? i am curious to why and i am interested in seeing their work as i may have missed it.
- mrdobolina0
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- OSFA0
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mrdobolina
(Aug 29 07, 05:28)
- studderine0
i just think ive come to a point where i dont even know anymore. i graduate this semester and well i dont feel like design is for me. my major isnt design, but ive been fooling around with it for so long that i thought i could make it. now i am unsure...i have some job fairs to attend and the suit and tie 9-5 is awaiting..
- OSFA0
why???
- Meeklo0
i graduate this semester and well i dont feel like design is for me.
studderine
(Aug 29 07, 10:54)Ok, there is the problem.
you only studied design so far, have you worked on actual projects?thats when you will know if design is for you or not, while school gives you the foundation, its not proof that you are a designer, I can think of so many people I know with b.a. that are working 9-5 on wearing a suit. or something else..
- k0na_an0k0
don't give up yet studderine
- OSFA0
yeah man, have fun, learn more on your won, school only teaches you basics. I've worked most of my life in the corporate world and believe me, I hope I never have to go back.
Find a decent job, give it a real try and see what happens. Freelance, do it for money, do it for fun but work, don't sit still....
- studderine0
i didnt really learn design in school. my major is technology/science so i work with a lot of the same programs/coding languages and so on. i do have "real" work that i did for the university and for an ad agency i worked for over the summer. but, i look at the work that i did and i dont feel good about it...i am thinking that isn't a good sign.
- studderine0
i just can justify lookiing for a design job and saying, "well ive fucked around with it since i was 16...so hire me!"
- OSFA0
then continue to practice and learn. The more you work on it, the better it will turn out to be and more confident you'll be...
- studderine0
osfa, you are right...i am really hard on myself and i shouldn't be. i mean, at least im better than the king of design. ha
- D_Dot0
The proof is in the pudding... or portfolio as it were. If you're happy with it then you'll be fine. Fancy degrees only get you so far, people wanna see passion and potential.
- harlequino0
I can tell you from personal experience that many people wind up doing things they did not necessarily go to school for. I went to school for music. I now make a living as a designer. And we're starting a prod. company to make commercials and feature films. Go figure.
Chin up, and don't be afraid to let something unsual pop up and comsume you.
Unless it's a monster.
- k0na_an0k0
you're young studderine. you might not think your work is good and it might not be. but there is something to be said about getting out into the real work and working with people who have been designing for quite a few years. the things you pick up on in the first month will absolutely be worth more than 4 years of college.
i've seen the corporate world. it sucks. trust me.
downtown chicago taking the train to and from work i see these poor bastards in a suit and tie all looking like they want to jump into an oncoming train. no thanks.
there is something extremely fantastic about design, and the ability to go weeks, if not months never designing the same way twice.
i'd take that any day over some 9-5 job crunching numbers as an accountant or pouring over quarterly revenue sheets. fugh dat.
but in the end. do what you gotta do. do what you love and the money will follow.
- Jaline0
I can tell you from personal experience that many people wind up doing things they did not necessarily go to school for.
harlequino
(Aug 29 07, 11:08)yup.
I'm going to school for things entirely different from design, which is why my employers are always surprised to hear that I never took designing classes. I should probably do that in the future though...
Anyway, stick with it and try out the different methods. Don't just judge everything based on what you did in school. Similarly, school gives you a different perspective on things.
- OSFA0
yes, work with real pros, you'll learn a lot from them.
Oh and harlequino... your music sucks! stick to design.... haha
- e-pill0
i graduate this semester and well i dont feel like design is for me.
studderine
(Aug 29 07, 10:54)this happenes to me everyday and everyday i kick myself as i just so much the design process.
i love the challenge that a project can give me. i love researching new ideas and finding new directions where i can take the design.
i love the obsticals the clients leave with me as each one is laughable and also cryible at the same moment.
to envy someone is the same as looking in the mirror. you see someone else or your own refelction, both which you cant touch or even grasp. yet its there cleary in front of your eyes.
design needs to be handled with lots of ferocious attention.
try to find it, instead of trying to make it happen. you say you are almost done with school and yet i guarantee every single working designs would trade their own work just to be back in school.
i wish you luck and really its you that is the envy, not some random designer that is trying their best out there, its your un-touched design sense that is the envy.
dont forget that. and let it happen, dont force it.
have fun!!!
:)
- harlequino0
LOL at OSFA
Touche.
Douche.
;)
- Jaline0
By the way, I've been saying the same thing for years now. I never think I'm good enough, but I think that comes down to a lack of experience and wanting more than I can actually have right now.