The moment you knew (2)
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- 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. :(
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- fugged0
The moment I realized that I was having more fun coding sites than designing them.
- janne760
everyone hates their job every now and then...
- TheBlueOne0
30 seconds after I seriously contemplated doing design work
- MrRemote0
Did you find that you started making more money after this? I did.
- ninjasavant0
Every day at 5
- Jaline0
Development = win
- zoiks0
I think about jumping off this cliff every time I sit down to do freelance work... then I get a check and I forget the pain until next time.
- _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
- Llyod0
this was 2004. I had finished work on some xbox shit and I realized that I sucked at it. then I took a swing at some guy I worked with then I was chased around sf by assholes with sonic mind control devices. after that I was pretty much done. I worked in dec of 05 for tribal and it sucked so I gave up design altogether.
- ukit0
I'm seriously thinking about leaving my art director position and just getting a menial job at Starbucks or Kinkos and doing that until I'm like 40.
- cannonball0
When I realized I'm only doing it for a paycheck.
- eating_tv0
If you are in the business of "giving clients the look THEY want" you're doing it wrong.
- hallelujah0
all jobs suck