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I have the work ethic of a heroin junky. On Friday I decided not to go into work. I mean, my alarm went off and everything but I just shut it off and went back to sleep. No call. Nothing. Then when I came in yesterday nobody said anything. In fact, my boss stopped me in the hall and thanked me for the work I did on a display board design.
Working in an educational institution is so far from working in the real world. I've blown so many deadlines, and instead of asking me what I've been doing with my time they just put more carrots over my head. I'm not supervised, I set my own schedule, and I've been about 20 minutes late EVERYDAY for like the past year and half... While this sounds like a sweet gig, it's made me grow lazy and unmotivated.
I also wish I worked with more designers. Most of the people I work with don't have a clue how I do what I do. Case in point, for some holiday cards I designed I took a photo of a tree:
I painted on the lights and stuff in photoshlep (the star is the college's logo). Anyway, my coworkers thought the tree was decorated like that and they wanted to run out and see the pretty lights. Yeah. And I don't get any sort of critical feedback on anything, it's always like "oooh that's amazing" or "wow how'd you do that?" or "gosh you do good work." Nothing beyond that really which makes it hard to grow.
Working in an educational institution is so far from working in the real world. I've blown so many deadlines, and instead of asking me what I've been doing with my time they just put more carrots over my head. I'm not supervised, I set my own schedule, and I've been about 20 minutes late EVERYDAY for like the past year and half... While this sounds like a sweet gig, it's made me grow lazy and unmotivated.
I also wish I worked with more designers. Most of the people I work with don't have a clue how I do what I do. Case in point, for some holiday cards I designed I took a photo of a tree:
I painted on the lights and stuff in photoshlep (the star is the college's logo). Anyway, my coworkers thought the tree was decorated like that and they wanted to run out and see the pretty lights. Yeah. And I don't get any sort of critical feedback on anything, it's always like "oooh that's amazing" or "wow how'd you do that?" or "gosh you do good work." Nothing beyond that really which makes it hard to grow.