Work.

So every time I write, my strategies have changed. Everything is pretty much depending on what the day holds, as I’m still hunting out stability and a good fit (and anyone who will hire/call me back!!).
I’ve finally had design work to do the past week. Financially it’s helpful, yes…very helpful. But even more, it’s been uplifting to simply have work to be busy with. A few months without much real movement and a lot of things falling through, stress and frustration begin to build up.
I’ve got two contacts working out at the moment. One is basically office space at a cool interactive design studio with about 8 employees (only ONE designer there!). There’s one potential client so far that they’re handling the proposal and invoicing for, which is awesome. It hasn’t been accepted yet as far as I know, so we’ll see.
I also finally got in with a crazy ad agency in Downtown Dallas, which is funny because I’ve never been sure about advertising—it isn’t my forté (as far as I know) and I’ve heard of the pace is nuts (which it is, I racked up 20 hours in 2 days). It’s web design without the coding which isn’t what I’m after (I think I’d like to do more print work), but I seem to find web jobs way more available.
The thing that surprised me the most about the ad agency is that I found myself pretty energized by it. I’ll have to wait and see because it can tend to be easy as an outsider, only stepping in temporarily. But I do think the amount of people in the office (200 employees I think), people around my age (a friend of mine got me in the door, and there are 2 others I know of who were in my major), and the interaction in general going on is really good for me. I tend to absorb the atmosphere that surrounds me. If things are fast paced, I feel fast paced. If it’s slow and quiet, I adapt accordingly. When I really started into the work world near the end of college, I didn’t realize how important office culture was in regards to my “shape-shifting”.
At this point, there isn’t a lot of choice with employment, so you can’t be too picky or hold out too long. I do think that I am finding I don’t know what I want exactly as I realize how many other avenues there are that I’ve yet to explore with my work. We’ll see how this next week goes.
By the way, the photo above is my recently revised, reprinted, and rebound portfolio. more images here. (Can you tell I have a thing for orange? We’ll call it branding.) “Hilariously”, I printed it to get an interview with the ad agency, and got called in the next day to start working. Nice to have it all together after way too long.
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