What happens to old designers?
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- Raybandana
I'm young now... but what about when im 45 - 55?
Do agencies still hire old designers? All I see is young people.What will happen to us?!?!
- 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
- 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
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- 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!
- horton0
gonna be a lot of CDs and B&Bs in 10-15 years time.
- pinkfloyd0
Yellow asics? Hipster skinny jeans? lol
- bigbaby530
They manage restaurants.
- Peter0
No one told me this when I got into design!
- MrT0
Start an agency, fill it with youngsters then sit in your office all day (10-4, naturally), attend occasional WIP meetings and client lunches and make hourly trips to the bog to wipe your persistently leaking arse.