Get Over It! Your Just Not Special Anymore!
Posted 10-26-2008 at 10:14 AM by Ricecooker
I'm getting a bit bored with my job title now. The world and his wife seem to be a graphic designer of sorts nowadays. As soon as I tell people I'm a designer their immediate response is normally 'I know someone who does that' or 'my cousin (always a cousin) does that'. When I was but a wee kiddler scribbling away in my sketchbooks I always thought that being a designer I'd be a rare beast who would get to sit down pissing about with marker pens, drinking exotic coffees ground from beans consumed and excreted by royal swamp rats in Cuba whilst wearing annoyingly 'trendy' thick rimmed glasses and sporting a Shakespearean bard's pointy beard. Clearly it hasn't worked out like that because I've lost my markers in the great suckling pig fire of 2004 (didn't actually involve a fire), I don't like coffee, I've switched to contact lenses because specs get in the way of hugs and I can grow stubble just not a lot of it. Bah! I can't throw a stone without hitting a bastard designer! *Throws a conveniently placed stone out of the window and hits Neville Brody in the eye* See?! So my solution to my current downbeat condition is for a role change, nay, a title change! Ladies and gents your looking at the world's first Ocular Emotion Artist!
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.usually I say...
" you cant swing a dead cat without hitting a designer" heh
how bout
"master technical artiste"Posted 10-26-2008 at 10:28 AM by sunny
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haha - i feel your pain. I've resorted to a new title..."pixel pushing slave"
Posted 10-26-2008 at 10:36 AM by Leannada
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Come to think of it, yeah, I know at least five in my semi-immediate circle. They're all graphic design consultants and they tend to bitch that all their friends want them to work on their websites for "free".
Posted 10-26-2008 at 10:42 AM by Diesel11
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What might be worse is when you're working as a graphic designer and talking to someone about improving their (fill in the blank - website, brochure, advertising, whatever), and before you get too deep into the convo they're like "yeah my COUSIN did it!". And then you have to tell them it sucks.
Or worse they did it themselves because "they have a computer". Yeah? So did my son when he was 3. And he was a better graphic artist at 3. LOLPosted 10-26-2008 at 11:00 AM by tigerlilly5
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I'm no longer a fashion designer. I'm a fabric contortionistPosted 10-26-2008 at 12:19 PM by AkuHimeNoir
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Haha if you're aiming for special, you should've been a cardiothoracic surgeon. Oh but then you'd end up 50, still paying student loans in addition to malpractice insurance out the ass, and working 15 hours a day. I'd say your current career path was the smarter move.Posted 10-26-2008 at 04:58 PM by shellbell178
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Lmao.. Love the way you tell your tales matey.
And come to think of it, my cousin......
Posted 10-26-2008 at 09:45 PM by Dardillion
