Aging Designers
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- milfhunter1
I used to run and distribute a agile team. Today i'm a flash developer. You need to learn always if you would like to be relevant.
- LOLfate
- When you guys say flash developer are you talking about gold grills and bling jewellery worn whilst you code?shapesalad
- exador12
I'll be 46 this May, and I think about this sort of thing from time to time as well.
I think staying relevant and keeping up with new technologies is pretty key to the whole thing.I also try to put things into perspective, and realize while I love design, and have for my whole life, it's not ALL there is about me. I probably spend more time these days trying to be a good father and husband and enjoy my family etc...
- capn_ron0
41 here, still feel like 3. Working in the skateboard industry, so i am not really feeling that old. Although I may have an interview soon and I totally forgot what kind of questions I would want to ask them. I have been in action sports so long that i may have pigeonholed myself. Although i feel my work is good, I just need that confidence back to not feel anxiety at the interview. I don't really need the new job, i have one already, money in the bank, but change could be good right now.
Like scarabin, i've got some thinking to do about the future of what i want to be doing to make money. Something with my hands more. Not on a keyboard all day.
- Change is good my friend.studderine
- Shred the gnar.studderine
- Frontside 180 to Gnarside.studderine
- change is good. i'm kinda ready. also, a good change would be to hang out with you more often brother!capn_ron
- oh my laaawwwdddd — lets. do. it.studderine
- Calderone20000
42 here. I split my time between working as a lecturer and as a freelance designer.
- BK-3
You don't want to be older then your boss and your boss doesn't want to have to try to tell someone older then them what to do.
Generally a manager wants someone younger who still has some fear and respect for their position.
Maybe that's just me though ;)
- Also they want someone who doesn't demand as much money as you middle age chumps!BK
- There are ageing Designers, but also ageing Bosses. So don't worry.shapesalad
- BonSeff1
Next stop:
- shapesalad0
All you 'a-ging' designers and no one spots it should be spelt Ageing?
- British English - ageing
American English - aging
QBN English - http://www.qbn.com/t…chukkaphob
- British English - ageing
- shapesalad3
I remember seeing an NHK doc a few years back about a old Japanese graphic designer. He'd retired but came back as he was bored or something.
Anyway, he was working with a contemporary restaurant to create a mural on the wall. He'd done a few still life sketches of ingredients while at food market on his way to the restaurant.
He arrives at the restaurant to paint it. A quick chat with the owner. Just one quick glance at his sketchbook, then with a calm confidence only a person in their 60's could muster he swipes boldly his paintbrush across the wall. No pre pencil sketch on the wall or projection or measuring, just straight too it. No looking back to his sketchbook. Just right into it. Zero hesitation.
With confidence and boldness, he painted an amazing fish and other food illustrations. Really cool and contemporary illustration style.
It stuck in my mind. I tried to find the show, but couldn't remember his name or the show's name.
Anyway... that's how I want to age as a designer. When it comes to execution of the work, to have my entire career behind me, and to just calmly, confidently and boldly go to it.
- yuekit1
This is an area where I think there's a difference between being a full time employee or contract employee vs. freelancing off-site or having your own business.
In the first situation you'll be submitting your resume to every potential employer showing when you went to college so they'll have a very good idea how old you are. And ageism is a real thing in tech, if not at 40 then certainly when you are 50 or 60 something. Not to say they won't hire older people but there may be a bias against it when it comes to creative positions as opposed to managerial.
OTOH running my own business for the past several years, I've never submitted a resume and I have many long-term clients that I've never met in real life. So age is basically meaningless. That's not the main reason I prefer to work for myself but it's a nice benefit of it.
- Bluejam0
"People over 50 aren't creative enough to write a fucking banner ad, but they are creative enough to dominate in Nobels, Pulitzers, Oscars, and Emmys. I guarantee you, not one of these brilliantly talented people could get a job in an ad agency today. Not one.
Is there another industry on earth that is as steeped in intolerance and as thoroughly isolated from reality as the ad industry?"
- The reason for this....YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE CHEAPER.Morning_star
- ^ and they still believeGnash
- Or is it that us older folks don't care about creating ads to sell toilet cleaner, generic looking cars and toothpaste?shapesalad
- M01XXX3
If you're still a designer or creative at 40 years old you haven't made it.
What I mean is you missed the boat in crypto currencies.
- there was a boat? where the hell was the schedule posted?capn_ron
- bitcoins to the moon!pinkfloyd
- There'll be another bubble....shapesalad
- #HODLlifeprophetone
- Lol k, fuck you too dudetwentyfive