Getting older and working in design
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- epigraph1
36 here. I was kinda floating in the wind in college and got snagged by graphic design. I enjoyed it immensely as a student, but the realities of making it career of it burnt me out in only a few years.
It quickly became demoralizing to spend so much mental energy and bandwidth on making some stupid piece of shit product or service look pretty for such a little payoff. Luckily I got fired and was forced to find something more suitable.
Now designing stuff for my own business and cherry picking super small projects for colleagues and friends fulfills my desire to design.
- breadlegz0
Nearly 40, been freelancing (and running a small web company) for about 18years. Complete rollercoaster, but I manage to support my wife and two (soon to be three) kids.
Although I do less design now and more strategy work. Then hire other freelancers to get the work done.
- utopian2
bottom line...if you do wireframes you are hired.
- whinger0
Oh, and same thing as some of the others, I really don't have an exit strategy other than design. I guess I cross that road when I get to it.