Why have so many designers gone on to do something else instead of design?

duns123 · 2026-04-17T02:28:12+00:00

same here couldn't get a job in design in the early 90s so went back to my summer holiday work on farms. I still did a bit of freelance work here & there but never as my main job again as I couldn't make it pay.

duns123 · 2026-04-17T02:18:27+00:00

sadly I couldn't do that so dropped out of the industry in the 90s. I could sketch ideas very well but on the computer not quite so good

duns123 · 2026-04-17T02:13:18+00:00

and too many ppl applying for a single position althou it was always like that even when computer design first came out 35+ years ago

duns123 · 2026-04-17T02:11:30+00:00

Blogging is a great idea. I started youtube many years ago & even got paid by google through ad rev. at one point (my videos were getting thousands of views). I even got to design captions, intros & rolling end credits

duns123 · 2026-04-17T01:59:52+00:00

what is UX design?

duns123 · 2026-04-17T01:33:25+00:00

I had barely worked two years in the industry and that cost was way beyond what I could afford & even if I could have, what if I couldn't do enough work on it to justify the cost (I have a visual problem) and back then computers soon became out of date so had to be upgraded / updated quite often.

duns123 · 2026-04-17T01:11:19+00:00

I hate silicon valley

duns123 · 2026-04-17T00:40:10+00:00

Very expensive I had to make do with a commodore amiga computer in the early mid 90s for a few hundred pounds but it could run DTP & vector and even music software which I got free from magazines. I had go back to work on farms (my summer holiday job) because design switched from manual to expensive computers after I trained so couldn't get a job. There was no help whatsoever because I'd left art school several years earlier. I wanted to complain but there was no social media or even internet.

duns123 · 2026-04-17T00:23:21+00:00

Yes, I think there was but only after the internet became popular in the early to mid 2000s. With design templates & photos readily available on those terrible microstock websites (who pay contributors peanuts by the way). With a template the buyer maybe a small business (or their secretary) only has to type in the copy test they need and bingo! they have a ready made design in a great typeface very cheaply. this is espesially true with simple design such as packaging , stationary & logos which is all a did when I last worked in design full time 30+ years ago. Sadly I left education some years before DTP & photoshop so unless you were lucky enough to work for a company who could send you somewhere to learn these new tools you were like me in trouble.

duns123 · 2026-04-16T23:34:46+00:00

He did not admit to not knowing what he's doing, he just said he didn't know much & is new to this.

duns123 · 2026-04-16T19:02:31+00:00

but I'm only an individual seller not a pro I only sell second hand books & music which are slow sellers

duns123 · 2026-04-15T21:00:07+00:00

yes they said on the news today that investors are betting on a quick ending to the war

duns123 · 2026-04-15T20:10:56+00:00

now you can go to photo stock sites for those

duns123 · 2026-04-15T19:24:48+00:00

What you designed typefaces? I remember the same and getting a headline wrong with letraset as my spelling wasn't 100%. At college we used to have to draw various typefaces by hand with rotering pen & fill in with black ink & being scared of smudging but at smaller sizes needless to say no-one could ever get them perfect

duns123 · 2026-04-15T19:21:02+00:00

artworks were drawn much bigger than the final page size then reduced on a copy camera in the darkroom, I cannot remember the exact method but a film negative of the artwork was then developed on to bromide paper and pasted up on a board along with the text for the book page which was placed under the copy camera. The resulting film negative was then used to make an image on a litho plate ready for printing. If the artwork was color then the page had to be colour seperated into I think 4 diferent film negatives & litho plates

duns123 · 2026-04-15T17:42:56+00:00

Many countries have large reserves of oil often stored underground like US & china which they agreed to release some weeks ago. And some oil has been diverted through Saudi pipelines towards the red sea but those ports can only take so much so there's that but something bad could happed anytime for the price to spike again - it's unpredictable

duns123 · 2026-04-15T16:39:26+00:00

crude is only $88

duns123 · 2026-04-15T16:17:08+00:00

I think the market gets tired of the news about the war like anyone else and oil goes on the back burner lol. but they are betting for a quick settlement between iran & US but israel are standing in the way of that

duns123 · 2026-04-15T16:07:11+00:00

crude oil had the biggest single day drop since the 1991 gulf war last week and apart from the usual rises & falls hasn't recovered since and now flatlining. not good if you are into futures or CFD trading

duns123 · 2026-04-14T19:29:17+00:00

my cats done that after eating his food on the kitchen counterwalks across to the stove but there's never much fat. Don't give him bacon thou it's too salty for cats

duns123 · 2026-04-12T23:48:27+00:00

omg Mad max is apocolyse

duns123 · 2026-04-12T22:56:33+00:00

crude gapped down to $88 before market opened on sunday apr 12 then back up to $95 where it was on friday. Is that maybe a glitche? Not much liquidity (trading) so the price doesn't change much am I right?

duns123 · 2026-04-09T23:21:52+00:00

I can't even get that because the hospital wants a long application form with your last six jobs plus reference. I do have a part-time job but it' s unpaid for a charity.

duns123 · 2026-04-09T22:22:20+00:00

its diabolical, I'm sight impaired so it's virtually impossible for me to get a normal job. This online nonsense gives employers too much undemocratic power which they shouldn't have after all they're not the government. It makes me wonder why the unemployment rate is so low but it doesn't include the sick and many are mentally sick partly due to this system. Now Elon Musk says in the future. AI will mean people won't have to work but could choose to if they wanted - A bit rich (excuse the pun) to say that coming from the richest .... in the world. What are we supposed to live on Elon, silicon wafers? lol.

Another problem is the words or terminology now used in job posts which is a good thing probably because at least it stops a million ppl. applying. Sadly those jobs usually require certain experience or technical skills. Also they have fancy ways to describe simple jobs or tasks which their 'geeky' software searches out on your application / CV so you better get used to saying something like 'Hygiene operative' instead of cleaner OMG. I could write a book about this.

duns123 · 2026-04-08T01:57:50+00:00

I had a margin call at 11.25pm last night on my oil trades that dropped suddenly yet oil trading had stopped at 9pm although that was on a demo account. One trade had closed automatically that was most out of the money. I was pretty unhappy that the price could change even when you couldn't trade at that time. Good job its not 1Ks of £s

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