2008: A Personal Summary
- Started 16 years ago
- Last post 16 years ago
- 29 Responses
- blaw
What's your personal take on 2008? What did you accomplish? Where did you fall short? Any one defining event of the year for you? Let's hear it.
- ********0
quit first job.
joined a start up.
so far has been the best decision yet.
get way too many ski days in.
- mg330
First full year in new job
Bought a macbook pro, became happier and more efficient
got engaged
Made this cool gif
- ********0
bought a camera
sold a camera
bought a camera
returned a camera
bought a camera
returned a camera
bought a camera
developed film
rented a camera
thinking about buying a camera
- lvl_130
got married!
went to argentina and chile
brother and wife had their second baby boy!
new portfolio website
finally went paragliding
decided to move to NYC...realized we hate winter...decided to move to San Francisco...realized there are no jobs.
still really want to move to either though, so i guess this is where i fell short in '08.- Are you in NY still?********
- nope. we were out there last month to check out places. still in minneapolis as of now though :(lvl_13
- oh sorry, my post led you to believe that we had in fact moved to ny. it was just a goal we were trying to achieve. sorry for the confusion.lvl_13
- ...for the confusion.lvl_13
- Are you in NY still?
- ********0
How about you bLaw? :D
- janne760
commercially i failed miserably.
next year commercial approach will prevail over graphic design preciseness wankery anal blahblah.
aka: i will actually try to make some decent money.
- janne760
aka i wil be more hedge and less neue.
- janne760
no hard feelings toward neue though. just noticed that in the commercial world people don't care as much about kerning as they do about a "decent looking whatever" and a fair price.
the rest is bullshit. apparently.
- ********0
moved across the world again (this time thankfully not for a girl although i did persuade one to come with me).
bought my first car (even though i don't actually own it).
got my work published for the first time (well, first time in a proper design book, not a 1001 websites rubbish).
cooked my own christmas dinner for the first time (which turned out pretty well considering i was drunk, ok so the girlfriend did most of it)and to top it all off, i got a ffffound invite.
not a bad year.
- spork0
wrote down my dream job in jan 2008
got dream job in march 2008
still have my dream job heading into 2009failed in making more personal non-commercial work
- blaw0
Renovated an old building into an office space;
Hired another full-time designer and a part-time office manager;
^ That took most of the year's efforts.Highlight: Took a day off, arose early, arrived back late, and the only time spent off of my motorcycle was while I was sitting in a tattoo chair. Insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but a very entertaining bit of downtime.
- sputnik20
- kick-started business
- baby turned into toddler
- found a balance
- became comfortable and accepting of self and others
- learned a lot about culture and politics
- learned that you people smell of tinned meat
- learned to love you for it
- 7point340
got banned from qbn
finished half of my new website (my god how i drag my ass on personal work)
did some nice freelance work
flew on a plane for the first time. (got the window seat. very nice)
got engaged.- +1 on point 5 - 7.34_me_
- you mean him?
http://www.qbn.com/P…7point34 - i mean thanks :)7point34
- : )_me_
- _me_0
do better today than i did yesterday----- but not as good as i'm gonna do tomorrow................
- monospaced0
voted Bush out of office
- ********0
I can't even write anything, I keep babbling for paragraphs - so I'll try and condense and keep it short and sweet (for me).
Though I won't talk about it, I have recognized the defining moment of my year ... which probably turns out to be my life. And to be brutally honest, I still feel awful about, haha. So thanks for making me think about this bLaw, haha.
2008 nonetheless was absolutely bad ass, and 2009 looks to follow suit; albeit with a new cast of characters in some respects (and hopefully some familiar faces eventually, haha).
Almost forgot I spent an entire week in teh hospital when I walked into the ER with a burst appendix and described the pain as a "6" on teh 1-10 scale. Then proceeded to laugh my staples out the first nite. Good Lord, that initial entire day was hilarious from start to finish outside of the almost crippling pain and if I was born even a few decades earlier, eventual death, haha.
- ********0
take more risks