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[bobissmall1]

Wow andrea9112, giggly stoner much?

[andriaSRH]

I stood there and slowly kind of back up and politely excused myself, I didn't want to be rude or hurt her feels by walking away. lol,lol,lol

I would have just walked away from her when she started yammering on.

I wish you were with me!!!!! cuase I just kept backing away!!! LOL,LOL,LOL thinking can't you tell by my backing away I am not interested??? lol,lol,lol,lol then I just went and zoned in another area lol,lol and hoped she didn't see me again! LOL,LOL, LMBO LOL,LOL

The "awkward back up" is always hilarous. It's even better when you mutter stuff that doesn't even make sense, then you just turn around and run away lmfao.

Winter needs to just go away.

join the WFC

(winter fighting club)

When it starts snowing I'm gonna go outside and kick some snowflake ass.

[weedguru_waffles]

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Looking back at my work, a part of me misses graphic design .

However.... I know I'll get paid more in the long run with the boring, dull job that I'm studying for now...

Sooo I don't know how much more important it's actually to LOVE what you do over the money you'll earn and can enjoy in the spare time after wards. I mean it's not that bad of a job, it's tolerable, with a nice pay... but not something exciting or creative. Lots of boring books and rules to abide by... but then the money can be used for travel and all that lovely fun stuff afterwards which I know I won't have with graphic design. Argh, this has been killing me for quiet some time. I've been actually trying to come up with things and reasons why graphic designs sucks, but I'm always drawn back into it, and find my self missing being a visual artist. Each time I whip out my business card to some potential client, makes me feel so proud of it. By the end of each project, when I see the final result, makes me soo happy. Maybe it was the professors that I had, and people in my class that made me love it so much. And the fact that about half f my friends are also visual artists of some kind makes me feel nostalgic to an extent.

</rant>

[cutthecashflow]

I despise Walmart, I have an essay I wrote on the issue that I will post at a later date.

[AbbyRoad]

Winter needs to just go away.

join the WFC

(winter fighting club)

if we get to use flame throwers im in


i find the people of walmart website hilarious.
it tempts me to dress up in stupid costumes and shop at walmart drunk just for the hell of it...and to see if i make the website.
i went years without actually shopping at walmart, but now that i live in a small town and i work right beside one i go there all the time to pick up little things. its the convenience factor of the location, i have to bus or walk every now that its winter.

[Weedguru Higher]

I found this old strange corkscrew today and thought maybe it was worth something so I decided to pop it on ebay and within 15 minutes I already have a $40 bid...HA!

And now it's up to $80...HA

[wgToonces]

<rant>

Looking back at my work, a part of me misses graphic design .

However.... I know I'll get paid more in the long run with the boring, dull job that I'm studying for now...

Sooo I don't know how much more important it's actually to LOVE what you do over the money you'll earn and can enjoy in the spare time after wards. I mean it's not that bad of a job, it's tolerable, with a nice pay... but not something exciting or creative. Lots of boring books and rules to abide by... but then the money can be used for travel and all that lovely fun stuff afterwards which I know I won't have with graphic design. Argh, this has been killing me for quiet some time. I've been actually trying to come up with things and reasons why graphic designs sucks, but I'm always drawn back into it, and find my self missing being a visual artist. Each time I whip out my business card to some potential client, makes me feel so proud of it. By the end of each project, when I see the final result, makes me soo happy. Maybe it was the professors that I had, and people in my class that made me love it so much. And the fact that about half f my friends are also visual artists of some kind makes me feel nostalgic to an extent.

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Hmm...It's all up to what you want to do in life...If you really wanna do visual art then go do it!!

But think about down the road, you might end up wishing you had gone for the cash job so you can have more fun and do more things.

If I was you I'd stick with the boring but good cash job, so I could go out and have more fun when I'm not at work. Plus you could still do some creative design on the side.

But again, if you wanna do visual art that bad then just go for it man, cos if you take the boring good cash job, somewhere down the line you might really wish that you just stuck at creative art.. haha sorry this has probably just confused you even more.

[bobissmall1]

wgToonces, great advice. That is all.

[WeedGuru_Flow]

Sasha, as Toonces said : go for what you like, even though money plays a WAY too big part in all of our lives its still not money alone that makes people happy.


So why don't you keep your foot in the door with graphic design? Keep your skills updated and if you ever feel comfortable enough to go for it jump on design!

You are a creative spirit bursting with energy, everyone on here knows and likes you for that, it would be a shame for you to lose that energy and waste it on some dull mind numbing job that doesn't satisfy you on a mental/personal level.

It's like with hula hoops, the second you start hooping you radiate this positive happiness, so basically look at design as your hula hoop thing on a professional level :p

yeah that was kind of odd, but still, don't let money be so central!

[weedguru_waffles]

Flow! Oh hell yeah money makes me happy. Fuck all that crap that money isn't important, but it is. I won't be happy if I can't go on a vacay, or live in a dumphouse.... and get cheap ass food that I hate. Sorry that will not make me happy. However if I do have the money, you can do whatever. And doing whatever = happy! lol
Thanks toonces! it actually oddly made complete sense to me. Although it's easier said than done. Idk, I think the reason i miss it so much is because I've been doing soo much reading, and more reading, and it's getting so dull, and I don't know if I want to file and create documents all the time. Just seems so lame, the teachers make it seem like it's a shitty ass dull job, there isn't any excitement in them at all. No passion about the subjects they teach, just yell at us to shush it. Also my class is really young class with lots of stupid highschool drama (i guess that's what happens when you get a class full of girls and maybe one dude, lame eh)... and yet all my other classmates keep on telling me that I was really good at what I did (with graphic design) and I was top of my class... makes me sort of miss it. But the pay is very very low compared to what I'm doing now.

On another note, we have a surprisingly bad snow storm going on here, schools are closed down (when my school is NEVER closed down, so that def. says something... yet I still have to go in to work argh. wish me luck, hopefully it won't get any worse by the evening so i can actually get back home.
cold lamesauce.

[SpRi7e]

1 word waffles...

freelance

You don't need to be working for a company or ANYTHING at all for graphic arts.. That's what has made that profession so popular. Most people who go to college can't even get a job for anything in the graphics art field as it is because there are already so many people learning to do it, ESPECIALLY because making cool designs is getting easier every day with new programs. I would bank off of the newer job and try as hard as possible to get your art out there so you can do your own work occasionally. This way, it'll stay more of a hobby which makes it more tolerable to do for longer periods of time, and the occasional work you put out there will be all extra money to you on the side.

It's your choice for your future, but I know I decided to not do any graphics art because the future in it is going to be very popular, but also VERRY over covered by so many people and it's hard as hell to get a good CONSISTENT job out there with decent pay. Like I said though, I would make it a side hobby and a potential way to make even MORE money, but I wouldn't dedicate a career in that field

[blackxs]

Sorry to say but if you want a stable career with consistent pay, you wont work freelance.

Do what you love, but make sure you are hired somewhere to do it...

[SpRi7e]

nah I'm not saying to do it for money or consistent pay for the freelancing.. hahaha, I'd be batshit crazy if I meant that! Even though you do get way more money if you know what you're doing, it's FAR from consistent stuff. I mean to do the freelancing on the side for some extra cash and to further her career in both angles

[weedguru_waffles]

1 word waffles...

freelance

You don't need to be working for a company or ANYTHING at all for graphic arts.. That's what has made that profession so popular. Most people who go to college can't even get a job for anything in the graphics art field as it is because there are already so many people learning to do it, ESPECIALLY because making cool designs is getting easier every day with new programs. I would bank off of the newer job and try as hard as possible to get your art out there so you can do your own work occasionally. This way, it'll stay more of a hobby which makes it more tolerable to do for longer periods of time, and the occasional work you put out there will be all extra money to you on the side.

It's your choice for your future, but I know I decided to not do any graphics art because the future in it is going to be very popular, but also VERRY over covered by so many people and it's hard as hell to get a good CONSISTENT job out there with decent pay. Like I said though, I would make it a side hobby and a potential way to make even MORE money, but I wouldn't dedicate a career in that field

ye thanks dude. that actually was very nicely said i guess. I do freelance on my free time, but freelancing sometimes seems like a hassle, maybe because when I started I was still learning graphic design and charged fairly low pay seeing how I was still a student. I mean it's still money for the amount of work I do, but I guess I kind of feel undercharged and hassle with really picky client where as in the company it's more like what you're told to you... (yes, I worked for a magazine company as well for a very brief period of time :p) But I think the beauty of graphic design is even though there is so much competition, I feel confident with my self that I'm good enough at it to land a job/client and be successful at it and the fact that you can do it anywhere in the world, and it's basically the same programs and concept where as law, it really varies from country to country even province to province.
But yeah I guess you're right, it does seem more of a hobby than anything else. Blah I guess I was kinda in a blah mood when I posted that (ps. I was taking meds that made me feel really down that day) but yeah... thanks for putting things into a perspective for me.

[sugarstalker]

well, I guess you have to undercut the more established artists to make a name for yourself. I think I remember seeing some dude like this who did alot of work for free for some companies, if he was allowed to like advertise himself in the art, or something like that.