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- drgs1
First job: Waiter
2000-2010: PHP developer, some graphics
2010-2020: Financial controller, some coding
- brandonp2
First job title?
Jr. Graphic Designer, then GD, AD, Sr. AD, then moved into product as UI, UX/UI.Current job title?
Lead UI Product DesignerWhere do you see your career going?
What stead said ^Where do you want it to go?
Not sure, still going where the wind blows. Prob not management though, I also like designing stuff.Hobbies?
Playing trumpet, skate/snow, mountain biking, graffiti, illustration.Challenges are you having?
Finding time for any of the above while being a parent of 2 kids under the age of 6. Most days I have just enough creative energy for my 9-to-5 and then I’m spent.
- Nairn3
First real job: Web Designer for a regional newspaper publisher
(prior, during uni, I'd done worked a few months a year as a construction labourer, then an electrical apprentice)Now: No title, I cut and etch things for people with a laser.
Where next? Not sure. I WAS going to pack everything in and try going back to pure digital/print this year, as we have a kid now, my partner needs to get back to work and i want long-term to have a job I can shift abroad, but then '2020', so now everything's up in the air. If I can find investment, expand and grow because I've been treading water for too long due to lack of expansion.
I don't have any hobbies. I don't play computer games any more and I barely watch TV even. Occasionally I'll read a book. At the moment, it's all about the kid and work. Ok, I read a LOT on the internet, as much of it as possible 'useful' or informative, as well as watch a lot YouTubes in the same vein. That's not a hobby, that's just low-grade learning and distraction, quickly forgot.
Challenges - see 'where next?' above. I'd dearly like to leave London, but the timeframe for that slips a couple of years every year or. I WILL leave London before my kid gets to secondary school, come hell or high water. I'm not having her go to school in this fucking city, unless I magically become wealthy and can send her to some shithead private school. Unlikely.
- Fucking hell. Can you ever not fucking indulge yourself with large tracts of shit?Nairn
- London is for the super rich or poor. I left 10 years ago and never looked back.Chimp
- Yup, you're not wrong. My brother's just left and got himself a fucking farm for the price of a shitty 2 bed flat around where I live.Nairn
- Couldn’t agree more. London is for the super rich. Or the super poor. There’s no middle ground.shapesalad
- In London you can either stretch yourself into debt trying to appear rich, or you are pushed down amongst the super poor. Living in a £600k one bed in a ghetto.shapesalad
- Continuity2
First job: Sales clerk at the local comic book shop. No joke. Started when I was 17, did it for three years.
Current job title: Creative Director (unemployed)
Where do you see your professional career going? Nowhere.
Where do you want it to go? Somewhere, for a change.
What are your hobbies? Imagining my life and career were going somewhere.
What challenges are you having? Being unemployed for 11 months ranks up there.
- trooperbill0
What was your first job title?
Paper Boy at the age of 16 :)
Then fruit and veg sales, shop assistant, shop supervisor
Then i went to college and uni and set up my own agency straight out of uni (there were no web jobs back in 1998)What is your current job title?
TAM - technical SEO strategist at one of the UK's largest digital agenciesWhere do you see your professional career going? Where do you want it to go?
staying put at the moment. ive got a 4 year old and need the stability. I'd like to get out of the role into something more broad ranging as my skills are greater than SEO but i have to "stay in the box" (dept heads words)What are your hobbies?
watch collecting and repair
playing with my 4 year oldWhat challenges are you having?
they keep making up BS to keep me at my roles current level
the market is soft for new hires
i get paid a lot for what i do so swapping jobs could be unrealistic
i dont want to move out of the area i live in
im waiting for the singularity to put us all out of jobs then i can go try my hand at being an artist lol.
- OBBTKN0
What was your first job title?
Designer / Illustrator in a printshop and infographer in a local newspaper, just finished my degree in Graphic Design. Learned a lot about discipline and dealines, very helpfull until now. Relly my first paid "gigs" were some comics I made when younger, changed my life, I was a shy introvert with lots o fantasies and a crazy imagination... after this, I knew I want to work on "something" related to graphics, art...
What is your current job title?
Jumped from graphic design aprentice to CD, in my prior 5 employments, in a + 27 years long career. Worked in hundreds of projects, in different tasks, from smallish enterprises to big companies. Knew lots of people, and learned a lot from them. Now, I'm self-employed, since 5 years and half. I do websites, animation and illustration, gd for print,... for agencies or "direct-clients" I get back in those years working for others.
Where do you see your professional career going? Where do you want it to go?
Prob. doing the same, I love my work, I´m really happy working "solo", had worked in and managed big agency teams, but now, I don´t want to go back to this. Love the freedom of working "alone", the challenge of getting the jobs, the day by day learning processes, I feel I own my life, I do way more money now than ever, agency times gave me the security I needed when groving my daugthers, now, I want to get involved in exciting, challenging projects, but never loosing again my feedom.
Got lots of side projects, comic and illustration projects, but I've had to postpone them due to the amount of work I've got this year.
I'm not planning to retire, god willing, I'll work in the field until i die.
What are your hobbies?
Riding my bikes, EATING and COOKING (I'm basque), drawing and painting, doing and reading COMICS and writing, reading all I can, scifi films and aesthetics, get drunk with friends... long list.
Many of them, delayed with this covid overworking madness I'm into now.
What challenges are you having?
Nothing important; but prob. the lack of time for studying and learning more things, and for exercising. Yes, the lack of TIME for no-work related things.
- canoe0
So, who's looking for work?
- Me.Continuity
- Me, remote or EU based only.shapesalad
- Me, remote of NYCCyBrainX
- remote OR NYCCyBrainX
- Ah, I should mention, EU-based (preferably DE, but open to the rest of the Union)Continuity
- Ah, Cont, I'm in the states. CyBrainX, what do you do, didn't see you post on here.canoe