What do YOU do?
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- nylon
If you have to sell yourself in 15-30 seconds - how would you explain to someone what you do?
Whilst I class myself as a 'Graphic Designer' and do identity, branding and digital design, I recently stumbled onto a networking group where you constantly have to tell people what you do...
If you say identity, branding and digital design - they don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about.
If you say 'logos and design for print' - they presume you are a printer!?!?
It seems to be far easier to say you do 'websites' as these morons can at least get their heads around what they are...
That said, last year, these morons put about $350,000 worth of work to the person who introduced me to the networking group.
I can totally design websites - I just don't produce them and so do not feel comfortable saying I do 'websites'.
What do YOU tell people YOU do?
Thanks
- juanluisgarcia3
- sorry nylon, i'm childishjuanluisgarcia
- Appreciate your honesty!nylon
- it staysmoldero
- set0
I usually tell people I just copy and paste all day
- ernexbcn0
html engineer
- exador10
Creative Director for a software company.
- freedom0
Tastemaker.
- freedom0
Creative.
- pinkfloyd-2
I tell them i'm a scorned ginger ghoul who trolls the internet all day.
- ORAZAL0
I am not one to sell myself, that's who the fuck I am.
#thuglife
- Longcopylover0
I sell cars. Or smartphones. Or insurances. And so on. People who then still want to talk to me, are the nice ones.
- freedom0
Producer.
- Maaku0
Art Director sounds fancy to everyone.
- "So you buy art for the company?" That's what someone asked me when I said that was my role. hahahamonospaced
- lolMaaku
- detritus0
I fritter around the periphery of relevance.
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And troll pinkfloyd on teh internets all day long.
- ShaneHolley1
Biscuit designer.
Then ramble on about dunkability ratings and crumble factors tehn watch their eyes glaze over.
- nylon-9
For fucks sake - just one time can we take a post serious?
- Why am I getting downvoted for asking a serious question. Fuck the downvotes! Boo!nylon
- Seriously *set
- Downvotedset
- -1ORAZAL
- You are not being downvoted for posting a serious question. You are being downvoted for complaining about non serious answers on QBN.ORAZAL
- Fuck it. Im downvoting myself -1nylon
- why is this not true?sarahfailin
- Oh you're downvoting yourself?
+1set
- feel0
yea, i always stumble myself for describing what I do... I just say I'm an animator, then If people want to know more I explain is about animating graphics for advertising, its called motion design
- Thanks mannylon
- That seems easy to explain.omahadesigns
- but in fact is a lot more than that... its actually a list of things that I do including editing and directing, mentoring and shitfeel
- Krassy3
QBN aficionado
- kiss ass.sarahfailin
- ^ kick ass?freedom
- bad ass.Krassy
- dat assyurimon
- pinkfloyd0
I just tell people i'm a web designer.
- Thanks. This seems to be what morons understand...nylon
- ^ morons? Do these people have skills you don't have?omahadesigns
- face_melter1
I normally say 'architectural visualisation', then I explain further that I work in 3D and do the shiny, happy, pictures of buildings you see in magazines and newspapers. Then the lightbulb goes off above their head and they understand - then it goes back out again when I tell them, no, I'm not an architect :(
- Say "renderer"instead of "visualisation". "visualisation" could mean you just think of things.omahadesigns
- renderer makes less sense - that gives the impression I just push a button and let it fly. I do everything - model, render, post ie. visuals.face_melter
- omahadesigns0
"If you say identity, branding and digital design - they don't have a fucking clue what you are talking about. If you say 'logos and design for print' - they presume you are a printer!?!?"
"Identity" and "digital design" and "print" sound like buzzwords to the unaware. They can sound pretentious.
Say you do logos for companies and explain you package a whole company. Explain what you do besides websites in digital design, it's not that hard. Talk to them like children.
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I think it is harder than you think though :(nylon - What are you trying to accomplish?omahadesigns
- I'm trying to sell my business to a room full of people in 60 seconds. People just don't 'get it'.nylon
- Thanks...