so, i got up yesterday on about 3 hours of sleep and took the bus to work, drank a strawberry smoothie and with the most rudimentary and primitive of outlines, gave a fifteen minute presentation in which i challenged the long-standing notions of how my company is organized and how its employee's think of themselves and then i lead a twenty-minute question and answer period, based on a redesign of one of our most important forms.
it was crazy. of the fifteen or twenty people in attendance, about 8 were designers and immediately after ending the meeting, i was bombarded with the strangest set of opinions. people came up to me with ink pens and the design, showing me with hastily-scrawled arrows (a la monday night football) how i could save some space or improve the image. i nodded politely, and listened to their opinion, because, the whole of my job depends on rallying EVERY employee in the company behind the vision my boss and i have for the future of the company, but man was it... unsettling i guess, to know that so many designers, when pressed for an opinion just wanted stuff shuffled around.
it wasn't so bad though. i got lots of comments that were useful and that helped make the form easier to understand and faster to fill out. so that was good. then, later in the day i beat the shit out of the redesign, so now i'm feeling pretty good about myself.
my boss is currently seeking a grant from the state to pay for my position, since it is mostly educational in nature. that would be pretty cool if that happened. i have managed to prove my abilities to him over and over since i got the job. i think he was really impressed with the presentation.
it is nice that i am finally in a situation where i can benefit from the ENORMOUS amount of studying and research i do.
things are going so well, that i think i will be in a good position to get a business loan to start my publishing company next year. i think the combination of self-taught graphic artist with apprenticed businessman is a pretty good first step. i'm up early now, so i'm gonna send out some emails to my business advisors and see if they want to meet with me this month.
twenty-four years old and i have business advisors.
cripes. at least i still wear skin-tight pants and punk shirts to work and nobody seems to mind that i haven't had a haircut since february of last year. yesterday, i quoted BAD BRAINS lyrics with the guy who runs the vinyl plotters, that was fun. we got as far as "i make decisions with precision, lost inside this manned collision..." before i realized i could no longer decipher HR's words any further.
bah, so tonight indie rock. i am excited, too many days in a row of working and then working some more...
THE TIME FOR FUN IS NOW!!!
it was crazy. of the fifteen or twenty people in attendance, about 8 were designers and immediately after ending the meeting, i was bombarded with the strangest set of opinions. people came up to me with ink pens and the design, showing me with hastily-scrawled arrows (a la monday night football) how i could save some space or improve the image. i nodded politely, and listened to their opinion, because, the whole of my job depends on rallying EVERY employee in the company behind the vision my boss and i have for the future of the company, but man was it... unsettling i guess, to know that so many designers, when pressed for an opinion just wanted stuff shuffled around.
it wasn't so bad though. i got lots of comments that were useful and that helped make the form easier to understand and faster to fill out. so that was good. then, later in the day i beat the shit out of the redesign, so now i'm feeling pretty good about myself.
my boss is currently seeking a grant from the state to pay for my position, since it is mostly educational in nature. that would be pretty cool if that happened. i have managed to prove my abilities to him over and over since i got the job. i think he was really impressed with the presentation.
it is nice that i am finally in a situation where i can benefit from the ENORMOUS amount of studying and research i do.
things are going so well, that i think i will be in a good position to get a business loan to start my publishing company next year. i think the combination of self-taught graphic artist with apprenticed businessman is a pretty good first step. i'm up early now, so i'm gonna send out some emails to my business advisors and see if they want to meet with me this month.
twenty-four years old and i have business advisors.
cripes. at least i still wear skin-tight pants and punk shirts to work and nobody seems to mind that i haven't had a haircut since february of last year. yesterday, i quoted BAD BRAINS lyrics with the guy who runs the vinyl plotters, that was fun. we got as far as "i make decisions with precision, lost inside this manned collision..." before i realized i could no longer decipher HR's words any further.
bah, so tonight indie rock. i am excited, too many days in a row of working and then working some more...
THE TIME FOR FUN IS NOW!!!
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I'm doing pretty well. Spring makes me happy. I'm too damn busy of course; going to Mexico for a little while in May. My husband is moving back here in early June. Finally!
Have you ever met someone named Justin Howe? He's a comic writer who probably still lives around here.
All I've got to say is: S.Y.L.
I can't wait, it'll be my first show in over a year. I'm so deprived!