What happens to old designers?
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- vaxorcist0
I'm in my 40's, and the older I get the less I care what people think about me, hence the normcore wardrobe effect.....
I do know a bunch of former agency designers who now work for hospitals/pharma/etc.... and they're doing well, maybe not such hipster work, but a much more predictable work hours situation if they have kids.... and some of that work can be more interesting than agency think.... and they don't have so many endlessly random meetings either...
- yurimon0
The best thing is to make sure you are financially secure by 40.
meaning having enough money to be flexible in the event you have to start a business venture or career change because times or relocate or industry change..If you have a passive income stream by then you are golden...
If you stay in the same job title till 40-50, you best have hell lot of connections and secured finances.. because if you are good but dont have the right connections and being older, you will have a harder time. Some industries are not as receptive to older people. like tech startup.. but there is possibilities, just have to be prepared...
- Just don't be alive during a large recession, obviouslyformed
- ukit20
If you run your own business, there's not much problem. At least until the point you are unable to see the screen or click a mouse.
- < Running a business, ANY business is chock full of problems...
babaganush
- < Running a business, ANY business is chock full of problems...
- BK0
My theory is there aren't many graphic designers over 50 because they didn't originally learn to design on computers. Many were frustrated by having to embrace an entirely new medium or just not interested in learning the new technology and having to compete with younger designers who learned that way from the jump.
- nah, they are just bosses now and don't need computers, they've got peons that'll do that stuffformed
- monospaced0
Become a CD
- CALLES0
they answer questions like this in QBN
- utopian0
Funny that you said that Ray... I have also observed the same thing, but I have also noticed a lot of these young buck hipster designer style type of companies are all going out of business one at a time as well.
- < Lovely Run-on Sentence®utopian
- you mean, Claymonospaced
- who?Raybandana
- CALLES0
today is friday they are going to load us up in a van and take us to some Salsa Classes! FUN!
- set0
If you're good you'll work until you decide to stop
- prophetone0
They are eventually blended into graphene sheets.
- cannonball19780
Why wouldn't they hire old designers? As long as they are up to date on skills, that experience is pure gold.
- fadein110
old designers do not look good in skinny jeans
- monNom0
A: Work themselves out of a job and end up in a quasi-mgmt role
B: Stay a designer their whole career, content in not advancing up the management ladder, becoming either very good at their job, or very bored/complacent and ultimately relying on the young-guns to help them with their work.
c: Leave to start their own thing since their boss is such an idiot and they are doing all work anyways.
d: Leave the industry entirely to pursue their true passion, operating a Bed and Breadfast, opening a hipster pizzeria, writing a book, photographing birds, playing in a band, etc.- all THE work anyways.monNom
- Ha! My dream is to open a bed and breakfast! But I toil in UX Architecture..mg33
- it is all designer's dream to open a bed and breakfastmonNom
- Im here cause I heard some designers are opening a bed and breakfast. I want in.cannonball1978
- Haha bed and breakfastHombre_Lobo
- Bed and breakfast with really nice business cards.MrT
- I know a guy who ran a bed and breakfast, it drove him crazy, he thought it would be heaven...vaxorcist
- I think it's a great idea. I would also offer weed with breakfast.monospaced
- fadein110
designers should always be young and fresh (as opposed to cynical and jaded) - should only be a handful of olduns - the masters / gurus to keep em in check and to give the industry / trade some credence.
- ask monobrow.fadein11
- What ASSaumption are you making about me now?monospaced
- sorry thought you were an older designer who 'knew the ropes'fadein11
- you are in your 40s no?fadein11
- I cringed upon hearing "young and fresh", which means I'm a cynical and jaded olduns. But not a master. So what about me?Peter
- No. I'm in my early thirties.monospaced
- dumbassmonospaced
- moldero0
go to a big agency, a lot of them are old as balls, im not sure what they do, i think they just dick around until they retire or die, but i never see them work weekends or crazy client pitches, seems like they hire all the young folk for that stuff.
perks of dealing with the bullshit and stress of a big agency for a long time i guess.
- CALLES0
How old are you anyways you little shit?
- omg0
Agencies are for the young Padawans learners who adore the graphic sweatshop. When you get older, you will simply fly away!