The moment you knew (2)
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- janne760
everyone hates their job every now and then...
- slappy0
I dont think I'll ever be done designing things.
At the end of my first paid photo shoot though, I relised that if I could shoot photos for a living, I would never have to "work" again.
- _salisae_0
put simply - you love doing what you are good at. if you don't like design you're probably working too hard to come off as decently talented.
- ...or not getting the chance to work to the job description. Welcome back.MrOneHundred
- talk some sense out of this girlhallelujah
- fugged0
The moment I realized that I was having more fun coding sites than designing them.
- jfletcher0
I've found putting my passion into a job helps grow/drive it, becasue with design, you need to be serving *something.... if you're just serving yourself, you may just be doing art.... uh-oh, I'm going to cross streams with the "Is graphic design art?" thread..... end of the universe.
- jfletcher0
I love design and being a designer. there are days it sucks, but not days I want to leave the profession. If you want to leave it, do it.
- designdecay0
I realized this about 4 years ago. I've been designing for 11 years now. I have an Associate degree in Computers Informations and I can truly tell you that I hate development. I couldn't imagine coding in ASP.net/SQL for 8hrs. I've been shifting towards marketing for a new carer path. I will always love front-end development / design, but I guess it gets old after a while.
- MrOneHundred0
Only very recently, though I had my suspicions for a long time. It was some moment during the 3 hours of having a client art direct me through PowerPoint backgrounds. Every few minutes he’d say “I’m not the designer – you’re the designer”. I wanted to cut the fronts of his eyeballs off with a rusty X-acto and shout “I’m NOT a FUCKING designer”.
- powerpoint rocks the funky shit. i've chucked all my adobe apps and solely use PPT now.airey
- it's awesome at websites as well as it's excellent support of print.airey
- and video work? why ask. excellent.airey
- Yeah, I use it every day. Not by choice, though.MrOneHundred
- ETM0
Almost any time you take a passion and turn it into a job, you will kill it. Once schedules and demands are applied, it's out the window. Being a full time designer is a difficult, thankless task and people can't understand that you can't always be 'on' or 'show up' in the same way some guy punching numbers into a computer can.
I've wanted to try other things I enjoy as a career, but fear killing those for me too. :(
- airey0
a few friends over the years have ditched design and gone on to other things and been really happy for the change.
i guess the thing is to make sure you're not putting 100% pressure on your job to be the creative outlet you require. or even the 1 thing to hang your happiness on. even though a lot of us are happy in this career realistically a large percentage of day to day work is bread and butter stuff. not for everyone but certainly me and most designers i know. you need to create or find additional avenues to work with. when i was a mac monkey i used to chase band artwork, mainly for free. anything to save me from from press ads.
saying that a rut is a rut and you have to either change jobs / careers / underwear or get some new interests / hobbies. you dug yourself into the rut so you gots ta dig yerself out.
personally, i kidnap hookers and hunt them in national parks (much like 'turkey shoot', or the less well known ice-t remake 'surviving the game') and wear their skin as clothes around the house. it gets me outside and also introduces both physical and adrenalin elements into my life.
- great idea! it's a win-win situation. city is freed from hookers and you have a great escape from coding!!!janne76
- hallelujah0
development sounds boring as shit--is it?
- web design in general sounds boring as shithallelujah
- sorry, I seem to be in a terrible moodhallelujah
- apologieshallelujah
- it is... and i wanted to quit, but there's just so much work/money in this field..janne76
- you know, i spoke to many people in all kinds of interesting professions and a lot of them are sick of their shit every now and then..janne76
- every now and then..janne76
- MSTRPLN0
around the same time when banners were introduced
- grunttt0
i often find my mind wandering... "what could i be doing besides this?"... i think that's a sign.
- cannonball0
I've been considering gardening.
- Nairn0
I realised a couple of years back that I really didn't want to spend the rest of my life applying the shallow veneer of 'design' to other people's produkt.
That said, in the companies that I started and in the work I've done for others throughout my professional career I've come to appreciate how important this veneer is, so I'll always value it - I just want to wrangle the ability to my own end.
As such, I'm midway through starting something new up, which will hopefully provide an outlet for me to express my own efforts and to work with the people out there who I know (and appreciate) completely outclass me. There's a long game too - to be able to produce real world objects that will be genuinely valued and, over the horizon somewhere, might actually be quite useful and functional.
"Design" is such a broadly-encompassing term - in an ideal sense, it covers all of man's highest achievements. I want to capture some of that sentiment in my life - otherwise, what's the point of it all?
- ukit0
Working in retail you don't have to think, and I could just try to pick up girls all day. The pay was shit though.
- CALLES0
The moment you knew... you were gay or straight
- cannonball0
All day I fantasize about doing manual labor. The day's work justifying itself through excellence in craft.... way more satisfying than some butthole CD whining about this or that to you.
- hallelujah0
all jobs suck
- eating_tv0
If you are in the business of "giving clients the look THEY want" you're doing it wrong.