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- JSK0
Never too late to be a doctor.
- bjladams0
^ i know a guy who decided to become a dr at age 35. all he had was an associates degree. he's now a dr. took him 10 years and a lot of work.
- identity0
i think im going to take a mixed bag of suggestions here and take some vacation days and readjust some things - get priorities straight and the like. I meant the post to serve as an AA of sorts for others who may have gone through a similar situation. The Whitewolf story was fantastic! Not sure if that's exactly what I'm thinking about - but the premise is intriguing. Thanks for the feedback guys!
- scarabin0
every designer wants to be a carpenter in the back of their mind
- messiah complex?identity
- tired of being behind a desk, i imagine. i've even been there. we just need garage workshops, that's all.scarabin
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Let's get on that...identity
- d_rek0
I don't want to pretend as if i'm in a similar situation... I do enjoy what I do. I love that the career I have chosen gives me the ability to exercise the formal and creative talent i've had all of my life on a daily basis. However, i've been working professionally for almost 3 years now and have found my lack of faith in the leadership of the creative industry in my region quite disturbing. What it boils down to is I just can't trust my 'superiors' to make the best decisions for me.. or to find the kind of work I'd like to be doing on a regular basis.
I think the right thing for me would be to open up my own shop / freelance fulltime... but that takes a different type of financial and time commitment. Something which I don't think i'm personally prepared for yet. The steady income is nice... but dealing with morons on a daily basis is not. I'm not wondering if what i'm doing is the 'right thing'... but wondering how I can put myself into a position of ownership.
identity, I'm not sure this helps you at all... but it helps me, so thanks :D
- Horp0
Start thinking, now, about changing somewhere down the line.
- NickInfozure0
Why not try making the brand book you are working on into an honest expose of brands and branding. Leave no stone unturned and hold nothing back. You may find that what you produce will give you some clarity. By finding out why brands really matter (if at all) will help you either understand why you need to carry on designing identities or if you should shift your perspective.
You might even, in the process, create something that can help others and improve the whole state and effectiveness of branding throughout the world therefore making the world a better place to be.
There's my useless 2 pence worth.
- identity0
certainly not useless - an intriguing idea actually.
I think the reactionary approach would be to reevaluate my life's purpose, radically changing everything to appease something that could just be the equivalent to a stone in my shoe. Taking a project - in this case, we'll say the book - and making its intent virtuous seems like a great idea. Im going to think about this some more when I take some time off. Thanks!
- If you Agency want you to make a useful bit of work they will understand and give you the leeway to do so.NickInfozure
- Or take of your shoe, remove the stone, then put the shoe back on and it will feel better.NickInfozure
- Or buy a new pair of shoes. Really nice ones with a shoe horn to help you get them on smoothly.... metaphor?NickInfozure
- feels like a big rock... maybe I should wear sandals and hang out at the beach! sand in my bum? metaphor?identity
- d_rek0
Proactive vs Reactive I think is always a better approach to life in general.
A lot of people that i've known tend to be very reactionary. They wont confront a problem head-on until absolutely forced to. Meaning they don't plan for it, they don't anticipate it - they just deal with it when they are forced to. Usually reactionary decisions are made in haste and frustration and rarely do they result in the kind of change that is permanent and/or meaningful. They're usually band-aid solutions - temporary fixes if you will.
Your reaction to your 'epiphant' was only natural - but now that you've had a chance to consider it you should consider a proactive approach to get what you want out of life. It doesn't mean you have to abandon your day to day, but you should plan and anticipate a life changing transition. Lay the foundation for what you want out of life and then start to build it out in steps. Whisk away the thought that this type of life-defining change should happen overnight.
- wow, i just got learnedrandommail
- i think its the small choices that affect the big ones. It's a waiting game - but isn't life? Thanks for the input!identity
- NickInfozure0
A song on spotify for you:
- hahahaidentity
- This song fixes many scenarios. Just sent it to a friend who just got dumped. Problem solved.NickInfozure
- BuddhaHat0
I feel like that sometimes when I'm in the car with my friend who is an architect... we drive past something, a park, a building or something, and he points at it and says "I built that."
That object is going to be there, and used by people, for a long time. I think there's something really special about that...
Enjoy thinking about your future!
- identity0
Perhaps that's my inclination to Identity/brand design? Dad was an architect - and similarly, I grew up experiencing his buildings all around my home town. His mark on my hometown was so indelible, in fact, that it's probably effected me in ways I don't truly understand yet.
I was good at 'art' in highschool - but also at history, research papers, and detail oriented tasks. Makes sense that Identity/brand/graphic design was something that i was inclined to do - but also the idea that brands/logos are around for decades, if not centuries, at a time. It's the most permanent form of what we do as designers. in my summation of recent events, I wonder if its the reason I went into it in the first place?