Interesting Read

Todd
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Very interesting - I’ve seen this throughout my career way too much unfortunately. From working in smaller agencies with slow, redundant equipment to blue chip agencies with obscene hours / stress for paltry day rates.

I’ve moved to the other side now and try to source my own clients directly. I love what I do, especially the time I can invest in myself learning new skills (esp. with Freeway).

That said, it’s all about striking a balance. I care way too much about what I do now to the point of making hardly any profit. I think any designer worth their salt will always favour ‘getting it right’, you simply can’t help it. But at the end of the day we all have mortgages to pay, and clients to keep happy. Working somewhere in the middle is perfect.

Neil.


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Todd, I think you and I are on the same page when it comes to wanting more from a career than being the rodeo art clowns these types of business practices try to make of us.

I soured myself on agencies who wanted to use my portfolio to land clients, then switch them to their low-cost junior talents. I’d rather make something beautiful and useful, but the number of people who can even recognize wtf that is seems to drop every day.


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Yeah, I think you’re right. An unfortunate situation, isn’t it? It’s never fun being undervalued. Someone once told me I was “too artistic” for this type of work as it applied to corporate/agency jobs. Such an odd thing to hear coming from a creative industry, but sadly I do kind of understand what they mean. Ah, such a curse to have the soul of an artist with everyone trying to clip your wings.

Todd

Todd, I think you and I are on the same page when it comes to wanting more from a career than being the rodeo art clowns these types of business practices try to make of us.


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Going through a career crisis myself and certainly can identify with these feelings. Wondering whether it’s all worth it, but of course that thought is purely an ego and pirde driven fallacy. In reality everything is worth whatever you decide it’s worth. But I admit resignation can get the better of you.


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Well, my gf and I left the company we were at because we didn’t like the way things were going. We did most of the work and didn’t even get a regular paycheck.

All our clients loved our work and didn’t like the company. So, we left hoping/thinking all the clients would go with us. Only one client followed with one job that we do annually for them.

So, we’ve been looking at other work. We’ve started an animal welfare non-profit, because it’s what we always wanted to do, but money is now a huge problem.

So, if you leave a company, leave with care!

Bob


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There’s this:

“The purpose of art is not to make a living, it is to make your soul grow.” ( attributed to Kurt Vonnegut )

I also need food and shelter to grow my soul, but point well taken.


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