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Originally Posted by nelkz
Hiya PIGNUT, i just read your last few posts and was pleased to hear someone following there dreams..I too work in IT as a deskside support engineer in London..I hate it..with more passion than romeo felt for juliet...lol
Im 31 and have done a few design bits here and there and would love to quit my job and go and train...but mortgage kids etc wont allow it at present...so I plod along.. but i am building a portfolio slowly and I totally agree about overworking and undercharging... im the same........anyway
I just wanted to say hi...
Nelkz
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Hello Nelkz
Great to hear from you!
31 - you're still a kid
What I think matters is that you care enough about design to be doing it as a hobby.
I've met talented designers who never did a formal graphics qualification and some not-so-talented ones who did!
I suppose it's down to circumstances - living "oop North" is quite a bit cheaper and so things like the college course were easier to manage. Of course, the flipside is that I'd imagine that there are many more opportunities form employment in London!
Is there any chance of moving sideways into a more web/design based role and then sideways again into graphics?
Anyway - I hope that you don't let the day job get you down too much. Life has a strange way of working out in the end. My decision to retrain only came from a series of events where my life was in total meltdown.
What was odd was that for several years I had a tatty old post-it note on my monitor upon which I'd scrawled the following aphorism from guitarist Robert Fripp…
"Turn a seeming disadvantage to your advantage;
the greater the seeming disadvantage, the greater the possible advantage."
One day, when reading this for the umpteenth time, it hit me that the oddly empoweing thing about being in my shitty situation was that I no longer had any fear about my career or money worries beyond scraping together enough to live on.
From that moment I decided to follow the path I wanted to rather than simply do what I thought was expected of me, or what was best in terms of security and prospects.
It's not much of a story - but it's mine. Even though I'm still trying to get that elusive design job, I don't regret following my heart for once!
29-02-2008, 10:01 AM
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