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- set0
I quit design 5 years ago, mainly due to being sick of being stuck at a desk all day, and became a postman for two weeks, then a landscape gardener for almost a year. I finally realised that earning in one day at my desk what I was in a week breaking my back was not the best idea going forward.
- Nice story! I was thinking more stone masonry, something long lasting (no idea why)BaskerviIle
- I've built no castles :-(set
- sine0
i quit after 7 years of freelancing. made furniture for 2 years; did an apprenticeship at a workshop doing top-end wooden furniture, cabinet-making and joinery/finishing. i currently work for a property development company.
- i'm working on setting something up on my own (workshop) in the next 6 to 12 months. was gonna quit here sooner, but things change...sine
- sooner, but things change...sine
- Very cool story, bro. Srsly.stoplying
- Great stuff. Best of luck. If you have photos of your work, I'd love to see it.melq
- Did you get paid during your apprenticeship?bainbridge
- i got paid. not a lot though. i earn 3 times as much at the moment.sine
- @ melq this is where i worked http://tinyurl.com/p…sine
- started with the dirty work; glueing, sweeping, etc, but worked in all areas from raw timber prep to spraying.sine
- Did you have any previous experience before jumping into the apprenticeship?duckseason
- i always enjoyed woodwork, so i had messed around on my own. i also built skate ramps in highschool, so i could handle electric saws, etc.sine
- electric saws, planes, etc.sine
- ukit20
May be relevant..
- This article is awesome, thanks so much for sharingBaskerviIle
- BaskerviIle0
Sounds great Sine.
Not too far from Jesse's wooden box making dream in breaking bad.
I like the idea of using creativity with manual skill, like cabinet-making
- bainbridge0
I read somewhere being a woodworker is like the happiest profession.
- stoplying0
A guy I grew up with was living in Queens married with two young kids. I think he was a developer or designer. He always wanted to make cheese, so he moved his family to a farm near Pittsburgh and he makes cheese. Milks cows and goats himself, total diy. I follow him on Instagram and he always posts some cool pics.
- mg330
I want to run a bed and breakfast. More of a bed and dinner. Somewhere in the woods on a small private lake, hiking, kayaking, bikes to borrow, good library of books, communal dinner and a different well known chef one weekend a month. Cross country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter. Sort of a retreat from city life for people for a weekend. Sort of a rustic mid-century modern feel to it. I'd leave the current working world behind in a heartbeat if I had the money to get that going someday .
- +1monospaced
- get the fuck out of here then and dew it™doesnotexist
- go for it!utopian
- All in good time, hopefully. Step 1 is convincing my wife to move to Colorado...mg33
- bigbaby530
I started my time as a designer in 1999 and quit that to become a restaurant manager. Unfortunately, restaurant gig is more money.
- doesnotexist0
solving different types of problems rather than graphic ones, moved onto branding, digital strategy. now i want to do community based problem solving—turning old parks into summer theaters, getting science research i think is important published, &c
- That's nice and good for the community!omahadesigns
- This is roughly the path I've been taking, do quite a bit of advising in my spare time after design and brandingBaskerviIle
- How do you get paid to advise?omahadesigns
- omahadesigns0
^ It would be nice to do something that helps people like this.
Seems like lots of good designers start in larger companies then work in smaller studios or start their own where they work on small time projects. The design is better and creative but doesn't reach a lot of people. The world doesn't need any more independent publishers, curators and book designers.
- i'm opposite, started at small places now find myself at bigger and bigger places.doesnotexist
- find myself wanting to affect more people nowdoesnotexist
- BaskerviIle0
I totally agree with the article above, about culture and capitalism requiring the division of labour. We have become ultra specialists in some ways with no real view of the bigger picture. In other ways, in design in particular, we've become generalists within our field.
We all have to be able to do print layouts, retouching, some photography, drawing, typesetting, web layouts, maybe some motion graphics etc.still all within quite a narrow field.Having the freedom to explore different media and approaches would be great.
- animatedgif0
This thread is fucking grim
- haha, have some hope! We're trying to expand our horizonsBaskerviIle
- Hue0
I have always wanted to open a coffee shop and secondhand bookshop combined. But I think this will always be a bit of a dream
- utopian0
I have been contemplating working for Apple. God knows that Apple's amateurish iOS UI design needs a lot of help.
When opportunity knocks...
- 3...2...1...utopian
- MONO WHERE ARE YOU?! JESUS CHRISTdoesnotexist
- ahahhahaGeorgesIV
- Work for Obama instead.omahadesigns
- Oh, I was just busy fucking your mom in the ass. What's up?monospaced
- GeorgesIV0
Me and my wife are discussing buying a small farm and going back to the earth, not working but growing just enough to survive while working on our hobbies,
we already cut on everything, the only thing that keeps us "modern" is our internet connection :)- hippie is never an option!CALLES
- hippies never believed in living off the earthdoesnotexist
- ok then amish is not an optionCALLES
- I know you like them big bootied amish birds :)GeorgesIV
- hahahadoesnotexist
- GeorgesIV0
and for changing fields, I've been learning electronic on my spare time,
you can free courses in tons of stuff herehttps://www.khanacademy.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://www.codecademy.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
http://www.investopedia.com/
- feel0
i guess I've worked with design for some 2 or 3 years, then became an animator...and I'm addicted to this shit! and everything about it: animation, motion graphics, visual fx, editing, film making, and so on..
- it is very challenging every job, always learning, being there for the past 10 years or sofeel
- I want to get into movies so this doesn't happen again: http://i.imgur.com/G…omahadesigns
- what papyrusCALLES
- dMullins0
Not yet, but I dream of apprenticing at a custom furniture/carpentry/woodworking shop and just being a furniture-making bum for the rest of my life.