God my job is crap
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- scribbler
My job sucks big time. It's knocked my confidence so much I feel like I'm never gonna get another decent job. I'm stuck big time and I have no idea what to do. Bummer!
- brains0
QUIT! It's the only way.
- mrbee28280
too bad you're in the uk
- scribbler0
but bills and rent! i'll end up in the gutter clinging onto my muller brockmann books dribbling and mumbling to myself.
- 7340
im so bored of my job i open photoshop files and dreamweaver in the morning and mostly let them sit there all day... by all accounts ive been 'working' on the same page for like 2 weeks now. i keep this open all day long and stare at the public voice trying to keep myself entertained. occaisionally i have an update to post which takes me 3 secs. i usually stretch it out to like 15 because i cant even concentrate for that long... i hate 'rich email'. i hate designing for outlook 2007. i am so bored its killing me... i feel sick and nauseus most days... i feel like im actually getting worse as a designer, i havent even updated up portfolio in 3 years (or more)
i know i have good work in me but i dont have the time or the energy to pursue it. if i have a minute to myself at home i just want to sleep or veg out
- hmmm i should feel better but...734
- QEDcapsize
- rich email...design for outlook 2007...grossdtan
- I feel the same way, just with different work: eblast, eblast, banners, eblast, banners ... there's a light somewherePoint5
- sounds exactly like me. No i think i may have depression after reading your post!capn_ron
- are you me?BattleAxe
- jamble0
Set up a church and get people to pay to join it.
- Corvo0
I completely understand what you feel and what your fears are about :(
As yourself, I too cannot bring myself "to push the cow off the cliff".
- scribbler0
it's so bad. designers deserve so much respect but they get jack sh*t. people don't get that it's an emotional thing. i feel like sh*t therefore I produce sh*t. it's not such a difficult concept to grasp is it?
I think we need to start a design revolution.
- ldww0
Quit dude.
I have been in the same situation, put in my 3 weeks last friday :)
- doesnotexist0
You guys need to just leave one day and not come back, you'll feel so much better. I walked out on my cubicle job as I was just pushing buttons for marketing people who didn't know how to use photoshop and/or quark, indesign, and illustrator.
Leave and envision your own creative career in the land of freelance design.
- this post makes me feel better. Thanks doesnotexist.capn_ron
- Point50
for there to be "great" jobs in this field, there has to be "shitty" jobs in this field. take your bumps and bruises now and hopefully you can be the one kickin ass in meetings soon down the road. You'll then get to talk on a personal level with clients and upper management; having to smile like you actually care or give a fuck about what they're saying, all in the name of business. Maybe you'll get to golf or take a business trip and possibly go to some huge corporate expensed dinner and endure 2 hours of small talk and fattening food before you even get to discuss work for about 30 minutes. then, head back to your hotel room, stare at the local news broadcast (which won't mean shit to you since you're not local) and fall asleep on that hard cardboard feeling bed at 2am after throwing a few back off of the mini-bar. Fast forward to 6am, you're ironing your shirt with that rinky dinky iron and ironing board in your room. You pack your bags and head downstairs for the continental breakfast in the lobby and soon realize that the danishes are delicious, but the coffee sucks; so you walk 2 blocks to Starbucks and while you're waiting on your order, you notice that the baristas aren't as hot as they are where you're from and try to figure out why/how that could be. You walk back to your hotel and find your co-worker(s) obsessively reading thru notes while valet pulls up your rental van. You get lost twice trying to find the clients office. Once you arrive, you're escorted to a conference room... where you will spend the next 6 hours of your day. You'll nod off a few times, think about how cool it would be if your pencil could transform into an Autobot, try to figure out if you'd bang 'Sarah' the VP of Marketing. You'll excuse yourself to use the restroom and find yourself hanging out in that restroom for fear of entering that meeting again. Lunch will be nowhere near as good as the dinner the night before (it will be shitty sandwiches that you will have to eat in the conference room during the meeting) and soon the room will smell of onions and pastrami. As soon as the meeting is over you'll laugh inside because you'll remember about how your pencil "transformed" , but then you'll panic because you'll realize that you have no clue what happened in the meeting nor can you remember half of the people's names in that room. On the way out of the clients office you'll hear Sarah talking on the phone with her "honey" and this just puts more dread into the 1 hour drive to the airport. The next 5 hours are filled with metal detectors, being annoyed while watching your co-worker(s) eat, and flying coach over the bible belt.
- hahaha. gold.734
- haha...starbucks.dtan
- best paragraph I've read all dayCultr
- you need to start a blogsikma
- fantastic.sintaxera
- pics of sarah pleasespendogg
- What do you have against onions?MrOneHundred
- that was chilling...the smells..sarahs legs..the shitty hotel...despair. Yes.mikotondria3
- i felt i was actually there damn! should have made the moves on sarah before we went backOctober
- madirish0
burn something right now. just light it on fire and run around screaming like you have no idea where it came from.
you may be seen as a messiah...... slight chance you won't, but worth the risk.
Randdspeed.
- jonatne0
looks like you signed up just to say that > http://www.qbn.com/scribbler/
cheers!
- stoplying0
j/k
- dtan0
light a fatty the day you quit.
- TheBlueOne0
- no idea what that says, but it's awesome.Point5
- Help, this giant key fob is flushing my head down the toilet..mikotondria3
- tymeframe0
scribbler and 734, I was sort of in the same boat. I was stuck a dead-end agency with sleazy bosses. The suits only cared about the bottom line and that deadlines were met, not about the quality of work that went out....or that came in for that matter.
Finally I said F'it. I put together a quick portfolio site and managed to find a new gig working for creatives that cared about their work and clientele. Now every piece I've done for this company, so far, has been something I want in my portfolio. It's so refreshing to feel inspired again.
I don't know if I'm contributing here or not, but, the creative jobs are out there. You just have to find them. Long story short....Get off the couch and do something about it :)
- harlequino0
"designers deserve so much respect but they get jack sh*t"
Bit curious about that line. Why "deserve?"
- btw, not saying you're not getting killed at your gig. I've been there.
harlequino
- btw, not saying you're not getting killed at your gig. I've been there.
- madirish0
no one fucking deserves respect. this has to be earned. period.
now, no one deserves to be treated less than another being- but respect is another issue.
