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- Nairn4
My very first paid-for gig was decorating the base of commercial christmas trees. The base only because I was only 7 and I couldn't reach any higher. I think I earned £5 for a day's labour.
It's been mostly downhill since then.
- mg331
First job: Grocery store sacker
Current Job Title: Associate Director of Experience Design
Professional career going: Far more of a marketing / content direction than product design or applications. Agency world for the foreseeable future, perhaps in-house towards end of career.
Hobbies: Photography, music-making and guitar playing, exercising, collecting records, snowboarding, cycling.
Challenges: staying focused, avoiding procrastination.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fax_Benson2
First job: Litter picker
Current job: Self-employed designer / owner-operator
Professional career going: Nowhere
Hobbies: Temporarily suspended.
Challenges: Mental / physical.
- moldero1
This is me fucking around in Alaska