I'm getting away from graphics (as a career) for a while — or at least diminishing my focus on it. The corporate world is toxic, shady and highly unreliable. I can tell you horror story after horror story of being cheated, lied to, stalled, ignored by formerly eager prospects... From the coke-snorting, church-going, tongues-speaking, corpulent blimp of a man I used to work for in the earlier years — to the well-connected jet-setting big shot who assured me of tens of thousands in business this year (even called me on a holiday break with great enthusiasm) but has been ignoring me since March.
A business is only as good as its clients, and my clients/prospects (as of late) are worthless. I can't rely on ANY of them!
I could catalog all these experiences and write a depressing and annoying book, but keeping track of these knuckle-dragging skyscraper chimps would be as awful and useless as documenting the road kill I drive by periodically.
Here's a doggone chameleon. Shut it up, it's public domain, you uptight weasels!
So for now...
I'm going to start as an apprentice in a new trade (on monday). There's room for advancement and I won't be subject to the severe dry spells that comes with design jobs. Really, I wish I'd done this a decade ago.
Furthermore, I hope to do a bit more with youtube and voice overs. For years I've been told that I should pursue voice overs, but have gone about it half-baked. Without the drama of having to chase clients, projects and payments, hopefully I can focus on building a career in voice, little by little. And eventually, perhaps the prospects that speak highly of me and my services — but never follow through — eventually will. I do NOT intend to let go of my new job though, as I know all about these drooling cubicle sloths and their duplicitous shenanigans! I will never trust these clowns again!
Hopefully I'll be around a bit more here as well...
