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Marketing as well. I dont get my happiness and fulfillment from my job. I get it from the flexibility my job gives me. I don't work much get paid well relative to my peers and my experience.
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Sounds like this is up my alley. Where would you recommend getting into to get started?Industrial designer. I literally draw concepts and build CAD for those concepts. As of now, I’m more of a conceptual designer who provides the fire power in creating new ideas, but there are more seasoned senior designers, who are conceptually burnt out, who manage the concept with engineers into fruition.
I’m almost three years into my career and I’m still trying to comprehend engineers, marketing, and corporate in general. However, I’d love to just hone in on my craft of conceptualizing. It’s definitely the fork in the road of managing projects or mastering design, and I tend to lean towards the latter.
I’d rate my happiness as 9/10 just because I’m not designing shoes which is what I wanted to do when I went to college.However, I do rate it high because I enjoy my craft regardless of what product I’m designing and ultimately it’s satisfying a consumer need.
I’m still in disbelief that I can live a sustainable life in California through drawing on paper and conceptualizing on programs that aren’t necessarily designed to ideate . Some days it doesn’t feel like I’m working because I’m barely on company calls, but I guess this is what it means to do something you enjoy and find someone to pay you for it.
Academic-wise or just design in general?Sounds like this is up my alley. Where would you recommend getting into to get started?
Thanks for the insight.Academic-wise or just design in general?
For school, design schools are generally private and have high tuition rates. Finding a job is very difficult since the role is very niche. However, it shouldn't be discouraging if it's really for you because the curriculum itself will make or break you; it has certainly broke many of my colleagues who didn't finish or switched majors. Even some have finished but couldn't find a job, but you'll land a gig if you can self-actualize that this is your calling.
design in general, i'd just look into things you're really into and why you're into it. Being this is a shoe forum, i'd take it you're into shoes , but why are you into them? Does it empower you? Does it help you aspire what you want to be? As a kid, i saw my older brothers wearing shoes of they're favorite athletes, and I looked to my bros as super heroes, so i looked at shoes as something empowering and a way to become just as cool as my bros. I used to stare and observe retro cards as a kid and look into the details i gravitated towards, specifically the jordan 8s. The 8s were so alienating to me aesthetically, it was a design i identified with because it was not ordinary. As i got older, i understood the tech from the inner bootie to the double lockdown strap for cross training, which was ground breaking for its time and fulfilled a shoe needed for athletes training for two sports. However, this is just one instance of why i gravitated towards design, there's a butt load of experiences i can gloss over but that'd be my biography
So it's literal details from the aesthetic to the function that you'd have to manifest and be able to explain when conceptualizing a solution for a user's problem. The more you can comprehend an idea, the more you'll be able to refine and come true to a design and solution. Reading all this may be abstract, but if you're able to empathize this same feeling, then design may totally be up your alley. The whole sketching and 3d modeling is part of the curriculum, but i've seen people who didn't know how to draw be able to manifest a concept from an idea in their head to a physical mock-up in hand.
I never once thought a job could make me happy; it's everything else that does.
A job can challenge/fulfill you and/or be something you simply enjoy which can help contribute to better overall happiness. IMO.A job is just a job, slimes.
It should never be the reason or cause of your personal happiness.
Everybody is right I’d say.
my wife takes her job super serious and is always talking to her co workers even when she’s off work.
me, I don’t talk to any of those bastards and when I’m not working I don’t think about it.
Bro that’s exactly how most women I’ve dated, female friends I have, and even my mom are. . They just want to talk about their issues at work and what happened at work. I leave work at work and just forget about it even if it is somewhat bothering me for whatever reason. Only thing I would discuss is it something funny would occur. We all have issues and drama at work at some point, but let’s keep it real, no one cares.