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I studied graphic design for 4 years, and have now been working in the industry for 4+ years.
My problem is that I'm not really that passionate about it. I like working with design, but I am far from obsessed with it. When I am not at work, I want to do anything but designing.
I think about people around me, in other careers, and only a very few are doing something they absolutely love. Most of them are like me, where work just feels like... work.
I have made myself believe that unless I can be this super passionate designer, then I should stop immediately. I feel like a fraud!
I feel that it's fine to not love your job, you know work to live rather than the opposite – unless you are a designer. That if I am not passionate, I can't be good.
I'd like to hear what you guys think of this. and how you feel about work.
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I studied graphic design for 4 years, and have now been working in the industry for 4+ years.
My problem is that I'm not really that passionate about it. I like working with design, but I am far from obsessed with it. When I am not at work, I want to do anything but designing.
I think about people around me, in other careers, and only a very few are doing something they absolutely love. Most of them are like me, where work just feels like... work.
I have made myself believe that unless I can be this super passionate designer, then I should stop immediately. I feel like a fraud!
I feel that it's fine to not love your job, you know work to live rather than the opposite – unless you are a designer. That if I am not passionate, I can't be good.
I'd like to hear what you guys think of this. and how you feel about work.
work
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Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
1
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago
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I studied graphic design for 4 years, and have now been working in the industry for 4+ years.
My problem is that I'm not really that passionate about it. I like working with design, but I am far from obsessed with it. When I am not at work, I want to do anything but designing.
I think about people around me, in other careers, and only a very few are doing something they absolutely love. Most of them are like me, where work just feels like... work.
I have made myself believe that unless I can be this super passionate designer, then I should stop immediately. I feel like a fraud!
I feel that it's fine to not love your job, you know work to live rather than the opposite – unless you are a designer. That if I am not passionate, I can't be good.
I'd like to hear what you guys think of this. and how you feel about work.
work
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I studied graphic design for 4 years, and have now been working in the industry for 4+ years.
My problem is that I'm not really that passionate about it. I like working with design, but I am far from obsessed with it. When I am not at work, I want to do anything but designing.
I think about people around me, in other careers, and only a very few are doing something they absolutely love. Most of them are like me, where work just feels like... work.
I have made myself believe that unless I can be this super passionate designer, then I should stop immediately. I feel like a fraud!
I feel that it's fine to not love your job, you know work to live rather than the opposite – unless you are a designer. That if I am not passionate, I can't be good.
I'd like to hear what you guys think of this. and how you feel about work.
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1
Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
1
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago
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1
Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
1
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago
1
1
Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
1
1
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago
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This is opinion based, so probably this question will be closed.
If you do not have a real alternative, do not do it. Consider it as a job.
If you actually have something else you love, and designing job is pulling you away, then you probably need to quit the thing is in the way.
Another option is that you change the focus of your career. Design can be applied to many, many fields. See if your client fields are the one boring, or is it printing job, lack of creativity, etc.
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up vote
3
down vote
This is opinion based, so probably this question will be closed.
If you do not have a real alternative, do not do it. Consider it as a job.
If you actually have something else you love, and designing job is pulling you away, then you probably need to quit the thing is in the way.
Another option is that you change the focus of your career. Design can be applied to many, many fields. See if your client fields are the one boring, or is it printing job, lack of creativity, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
21.4k12053
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
This is opinion based, so probably this question will be closed.
If you do not have a real alternative, do not do it. Consider it as a job.
If you actually have something else you love, and designing job is pulling you away, then you probably need to quit the thing is in the way.
Another option is that you change the focus of your career. Design can be applied to many, many fields. See if your client fields are the one boring, or is it printing job, lack of creativity, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
21.4k12053
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
This is opinion based, so probably this question will be closed.
If you do not have a real alternative, do not do it. Consider it as a job.
If you actually have something else you love, and designing job is pulling you away, then you probably need to quit the thing is in the way.
Another option is that you change the focus of your career. Design can be applied to many, many fields. See if your client fields are the one boring, or is it printing job, lack of creativity, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
21.4k12053
This is opinion based, so probably this question will be closed.
If you do not have a real alternative, do not do it. Consider it as a job.
If you actually have something else you love, and designing job is pulling you away, then you probably need to quit the thing is in the way.
Another option is that you change the focus of your career. Design can be applied to many, many fields. See if your client fields are the one boring, or is it printing job, lack of creativity, etc.
answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
21.4k12053
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answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
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answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
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answered 1 hour ago
Rafael
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1
Its a job, nothing more nothing less.
– joojaa
1 hour ago
Nothing more? I disagree.
– Rafael
1 hour ago
If I dislike pizza... I tend to not eat pizza.
– Scott
48 mins ago
1
If you don't actively dislike the job, then hold on to it. You can spend your free time doing things you really like, and a steady job puts bread on the table. You can always search for another job in an industry you like in that spare time. (I have the luxury that I like my job, it pays well enough by a substantial margin, and I can spend my free time any which way I want anyway.)
– usr2564301
43 mins ago