God my job is crap
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- skt0
Tracy, we need a word. See me in my office in half an hour.
Didn't think anyone else here read qbn did you?
- Spookytim0
Similar to Jamble I quit design after almost twenty years in the design studio and I decided to be an illustrator with no previous illustration work at all. It was very hard to begin with but after six months of nothing I got my first commission and it has built steadily from there on. I would also consider doing something else like you say Jamble, but I have to have a second crack at the illustration work first - I got pigeon-holed doing commercial digital work that gets increasingly old-fashioned, decreasingly creative and increasingly like "can you do another version of that thing you did back in 2005 please?". I am determined to escape this 'commercially succesful rut' I'm in and be more creatively succesful with my work than this, and then I'll quit and run a ski Chalet in france or whatever. I'd like to own/run an art gallery except for the fact that they are like huge bottomless pits that you shovel money into every day.
- no joke, ive alwasy wanted to do the art gallery thing as well. not so sure about the ski chalet but more power to you734
- Kiko0
ditto
- justpossibly0
Scribbler, I know you just wanted to share how you felt about your crappy job and hopefully find others who are in the same boat. There are many people here giving you advice and telling you to quit.
I hear ya man, sometimes it's not that easy when you got bills to pay etc. And I'm not here to tell you what to do but I think we can all agree that life is miserable when you are doing something that is not fulfilling.
I also agree that respect is not earned, it has to be first given. I know it's especially hard when your boss treats you like garbage. Some situations you just have to get out of. But if you go to a new environment you can't go around seeking for it. It will come when you focus on going beyond the task you are responsible for. And that is all you really can do.
However you come to resolve your situation, I hope you find yourself in a position where you feel you are doing what you were born to do. Let us know how things go! Cheers.
- cannonball0
Heres the problem: you put up with getting the long hairy corporate shaft up the colon because you are paid. You are paid to do your job and you are paid to be that person. You will always feel this way as long as you have a boss.
Most of you (me included) are too scared shitless to be purely creative on your own terms. If we knew we'd get paid to sit at home and paint or write or make music we would.
We need the guarentee that a purely creative life will work. Untill we grow a fat pair of nuts and quit for living on out own terms and making things we're stuck at a desk.
And another thing: most of you need the job because you're too afraid to find out that you aren't creative (again, a fear of my own). Face it... some of you just aren't creative, no matter how much you want to be, and that's why you are making banners all day.
- hallelujah0
jesus 734... big, big respect