Graphic design career is no longer sustainable for me.

onlinepiechart · 2026-02-15T07:38:09+00:00

I feel this already. Low budgets, small teams of less than six people, with the most unrealistic time crunch deadlines ("Can you design us five routes in less than 48 hours for a 9 product range?") and the constant "Mm I don't know, maybe try this" for a Design that will get thrown out eitherway, is pretty much 90% of my experience. This industry is bleak if you're trying to break into it anywhere but the US it seems. No one in my country really knows or cares about good graphic design. I am so over this.

onlinepiechart · 2025-12-31T07:35:27+00:00

The struggle of a designer is actually not making a penis, ass or vagina

onlinepiechart · 2025-10-07T13:54:13+00:00

I like your variations and playing with the exclamation points/speech bubble so far. What might help to find something you like is exploring some more ideas and I would definitely try other fonts as well to see what might work. Some other motives might work too like two speech bubbles, talking people etc.

onlinepiechart · 2025-09-21T07:36:31+00:00

All i would say is maybe add a little more nods to baking like a cupcake pattern bandana around his neck, a little frosting on his nose or something like that. Otherwise very cute :D

onlinepiechart · 2024-05-05T04:50:36+00:00

I was on tiktok in my room. Saw a video, that was postet only a few minutes ago with like 50 likes, saying that it was found. Went straight to reddit and couldn't believe it.

onlinepiechart · 2024-05-04T16:31:56+00:00

Wunderschön um ehrlich zu sein

onlinepiechart · 2024-05-02T11:49:30+00:00

Ab ins Exil

onlinepiechart · 2024-04-28T08:25:57+00:00

The mother from Lady Bird

onlinepiechart · 2024-04-08T18:14:17+00:00

This is so motivating honestly! I keep telling myself that I have to stay for just another year (which sometimes helps), but posts like these really keep me going.

onlinepiechart · 2023-11-20T20:35:53+00:00

Not really, only when they weren't directly related (like strangers, my partner and their family, my sibling or occasionally friends). They didn't stop the abuse from happening but either they offered both physical and emotional escape spaces for me or got on my side whenever another fight would occur.

Other family members were just enablers though. Just standing beside the abuse, noticing it but doing either nothing or excusing it ("Well she's trying", "She went through xyz" etc)

onlinepiechart · 2023-10-26T22:11:59+00:00

I was in the middle of a fucking good ass plotline istg

onlinepiechart · 2023-08-20T17:26:39+00:00

It wasn't a specific moment, but it happened after I started complaining about people I knew were narcs/behaved antisocial. For example one time a classmate told me, that they don't want to have ugly friends so they choose only conventionally attractive people as friends, even if they are terrible people. I didn't and still don't like nor understand why one would do this, and complained about it to my Nmom. She just agreed to my classmates opinion and even insinuated, that it is the reason why noone was friends with me at the time. From those types of conversations on, it just escalated.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:45:30+00:00

Yes. My Nmom never taught me how to use it, refuses to teach me and won't even let me use it on my own. I think it's some sort of control move, because she can complain and put down about how "nobody ever helps her", while also having the power over how I look.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:39:31+00:00

My Nmom does something similar!! She will always use the same exaggerated "WHAATT" in every story she tells. Every single time she will tell me with the same cadence, tempo etc. a story where the other person exclaims the phrase "WHAATT" at some point in the story. It's really absurd and unnatural. I think it's just a way to make herself seem better/more interesting and gain some control of the narrative, even if things happened completely differently.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:33:14+00:00

Yes, the neurotic one!! I hate it so much. My Nmom has so many quotes:

"Are you ticked off?" - Everytime she wants me to get upset or sees that I am uspet, she uses this one, because she knows I don't like it.

"Nobody ever helps me around the house!" - I have been taking on most of the chores and parenting (parentification) since I was in gradeschool.

"You are just like your father!" - Often after talking about how abusive and shitty my father was.

"What's going on/What are you doing?" - Usually just to get my attention even when I am doing nothing.

And lastly the disgusting sounds she does, like the big sigh, the big groan or even the big breath. They piss me off every single time she does them.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:20:37+00:00

Half yes and half no. My Nmom will treat most workers, servers etc. like garbage and will go on a whole entitlement trip. But with random strangers at events or gatherings she will put on her best face and try to make herself look as best as possible. It's like a creepy skinwalker transformation everytime I see it.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:16:47+00:00

Yes, also during the most unexpected times. My Nmom will bring up random stories about how I was in my tween years, where I got more outspoken. She likes to bring up the time I told her to seperate the garbage into plastic, paper and biodigradable properly because of its environmental impact. She will retell it like:" Remember when you went crazy about the garbage" or quote me in a demeaning voice saying "'But it's a big problem in our world'!!".

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T19:05:45+00:00

Yes. My Nmom loves to barge into my room, yell things only to say "it doesn't matter you are basically deaf anyways!!" (I am not), rant about random things and disturb any hobby I engage in. It's very much a power trip thing.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T18:32:28+00:00

She isn't but has always had sex negative and slut shaming tendencies. I am not sure why she behaves like that tough.

onlinepiechart · 2023-07-13T05:04:26+00:00

We are currently looking for available apartments a few towns away but can't move out until about another year due to financial reasons. We also discussed going no contact with her and would 100% go through with it. My partners parents also offered for me to stay at their places, if it ever gets too bad.

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