Graphic design field

[smokeyburnouts]

@1st v-dub

I worked in a pretty big ad agency downtown and let me tell you, at this particular company, everyone was underpaid, treated like shit with insane work hours, and just generally sucked. I was a computer guy, but the whole creative department would generally get shit upon daily. Account managers would come up and say “oh, the client wanted this re-worded, and they don’t think this red is quite the one they want”. Then they would say, I need this by the end of the day.

Seemed kind of like sell-out work (retouching packaging, nothing that I would consider super creative), but one of the only friends I still have from there put it this way… “my other friends are all telemarketers because they wanted more creative jobs. At least I’m still working in the art field”.

Might be better elsewhere, but I’ve heard similar storied from people in houston and austin.

ya, at my place we do some pretty complex designs (lanesplitter also works with me and he is very talented) but i will say that if u decide to go into anything with design, you are gonna have to accept criticism, ridiculous deadlines at times and at some point you will end up rearranging your plans around work. there arent many jobs that you will walk in and leave the same time everyday. in this field its all about deadlines and you have to meet them, end of story. you can go from being bored and surfing this site all day to stayin late for OT, just like that. its just something that seems to come with the line of work though.