career decisions...
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- Guss
OPTION 1:
Continue working as an interactive designer for a huge tech company, move up the corporate ladder, get paid loads of money with great benefits, etc and live happily ever after without any artistic fulfillment.or
OPTION 2:
Take a 50% pay cut and go work as an art director for a small award winning design studio, continue building my portfolio and eventually start my own studio that specializes in branding... and live happily ever after without all the great benefits or money...
- utopian0
#1
- shellie0
Pick whatever job you think will make you most happy right now. You think you can but you will never really be able to plan your life out so simply. Quality of life is the real question isn't it? Only you can decide what that means.
- monospaced0
#1 and find out ways to fulfill your artistic side outside of work.
- work 24/7 Mon-Friday 9-6 for the corporate / Sat-Sun 10-6 on your artistic bullshit = no lifeclearThoughts
- first off, it's not artistic bullshit and second, it doesn't have to be "work" in the traditional sensemonospaced
- 24/7 is not the same as M-F 9-6monospaced
- bigtrick0
#2 or you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
- Jimbo820
#3 Let QBN vote on them and you have to go with the decision. It's called democracy... sort of.
- autoflavour0
number 2, always.
I am most happy when i am the poorest.
- i know its cliche as fuck, but life is too short for shit jobsautoflavour
- meok0
#1
- meok0
#2
- clearThoughts0
Guss, if your own studio goes well you could potentially make more money than working for the Tech Corporate.
Remember what they say: "climb up that ladder, take a break half way through, eat a banana and put brown sugar in your capuccino"
Peace Bro
- CALLES0
OPTION #3
Prostitution has become an almost admirable career
- ukit0
I'd go for Option 4 or 5. Although I can understand why you didn't list them publicly.
- ********0
Only do #2 if you have a business plan and can be fairly certain that you're likely to succeed.
Don't burn your bridges with #1.
- Knuckleberry0
If you have kids - Option 1
If you don't have kids - Option 2It is that easy.
- shellie0
Btw, few people can successfully run their own agency. Most creative types successfully run their companies into the ground. I'd say, entrepreneurship at this juncture is a few steps ahead of where you should be thinking.
First thing's first, which job are you feeling? Next, choose go to with the answer from step 1.
- ukit0
The assumptions of this question are all wrong...
Why do you think you would be taking a 50% pay cut? Do design positions at big companies really pay twice what a good independent design studio pays? I call BS on that part.
And wait, assuming you are able to start your own company and it succeeds, isn't there a strong chance you'd actually be making more than in some corporate cubicle job somewhere?
- i've faced exactly the same choice - senior inhouse or mid agency were 17k apartzr
- ukit0
The real question is in taking the risk...can you actually land a well paying job at a good studio? Can you successfully start your own company?
- meffid0
#2 then back to #1.
- ifeltdave0
#1 until you have a mid-life crisis. By then you can bank roll your way through #2.
- MondoMorphic0
Ukit hit the nail on the head. You shouldn't need to take a 50% pay cut and once you start your own studio, you should make WAY more than you would ever dream of making in that corporate gig.
If you have decent work to this point, I saw #3. Start your own studio now! ;)
