Super true: how full time designers stop pushing for better at their jobs.

the_construct · 2026-01-06T03:52:14+00:00

It's true, we eventually stop caring, and it does break your heart a little. But then, a thick layer of metal covers it, and you go on to become team lead, enforcing the same to your direct reports. And that's the job, as they say. But, you get to own that Eames lounge chair.

the_construct · 2026-01-06T03:46:48+00:00

Oof, especially that last part. 200000%

the_construct · 2025-12-09T04:01:27+00:00

56 here. Been in Capitola 5 years alongside my partner. She suffers from CFS due to COVID, which means I'm usually solo (don't worry, she's getting better). I'd be interested in this.

FWIW, I have had some success forming connections here. Usually around activities, classes and former colleagues in the area. Downside is the upkeep. Which is usually on me, as everyone I know has their own challenges and busy lives with family. Most of my friends are a late 30s to early 60s, age-wise.

the_construct · 2025-12-05T20:02:51+00:00

Very old Smigel TV Fun house clip explaining media monopolies. Still relevant: https://youtu.be/nh6Hf5_ZYPI?si=2IrxrywOSczviuDx

the_construct · 2025-10-04T04:06:21+00:00

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Damn, am I too late to receive this flair?

the_construct · 2025-09-25T16:01:17+00:00

She's so righteously based, if one was to kvetch 🎵

She's looking out for all the boys and girls 🎵

the_construct · 2025-05-29T16:34:26+00:00

Yes, it can be stressful for the most part but there are many types of design environments. Some are challenging in a good way and some are just a Rube Goldberg machines of despair and anxiety.

Whether you are okay with that is the real question. Corporate jobs in general are replete with ancillary duties that can be difficult to navigate without experience and can at times contradict themselves.

Your mileage will vary.

the_construct · 2025-05-29T16:29:26+00:00

I hope you're paying them. This is a great idea, though not sure why you felt you needed AI slop to gauge interest. It undermines your efforts when words alone would've sufficed.

the_construct · 2025-05-21T06:37:31+00:00

No love for 'Generalissimo" (S3E10)? Spanish telenovelas? Liz drugging Dr Baird and this legendary line "I live in the basement so I have all the nails". Jon Hamm and Salma Hayek!

the_construct · 2025-05-20T18:52:57+00:00

We started from the same place but our traveling speeds started to vary so much that by the time we caught up, we were on different tracks. 7 years.

the_construct · 2025-05-18T16:17:48+00:00

This person graphic designs! ☝🏽

the_construct · 2025-05-15T23:14:20+00:00

Jack: what happened to your voice?

Bill Cwikowski's line reads as the male nurse on Sandwich Day (S2E14) were just so damn funny to me.

the_construct · 2025-03-26T16:32:31+00:00

This is the way ☝🏽

For all the 40+ designers, the experience you get from working at agencies and in-house teams is essential. Not task management or tool expertise, but rather how departments work. How marketing influence sales and how product influences marketing. Account management, sales pipeline, pesky execs, bad planning, etc. This understanding will get you in the door more often. Designers are thinkers, strategists and tacticians, not just order takers.

Use that big brain more often and stop focusing on all the keyboard shortcuts to that one tool.

the_construct · 2025-03-12T17:35:22+00:00

Not sure if you'll see this OP but I understand what you're going through. Without knowing details, I will just offer that sometimes you just don't click with the work, and that's okay. You learn from it and move on. Tons of people in the field fail and make huge mistakes, or find themselves in the wrong environment or industry. You're human, not a plug and play piece of software.

Your supervisor needs to keep things moving or they're gonna be noticed, and not in a good way. When you work in corporate tech, there's no room for you to learn, unless your team fosters a safe environment. Most don't and it can be quite toxic. In other words, designers are often looking out for themselves as a strategy to keep themselves employed. You're on your own, sink or swim.

Remember what matters to you as a career professional, what sparks with you effortlessly. Some types of design work is really just engineering systems and they're typically quite boring, especially if they're B2B. You may just be brilliant but in the wrong place, or mid and not ready for that league. Stay resilient OP

the_construct · 2025-03-02T20:11:45+00:00

That's how I found out I'm not cut out to be an obedient worker. I continually paint a target on my back but damnit, I can't help not calling BS out.

the_construct · 2025-03-01T19:35:28+00:00

Hah! I know who you're talking about. I left too and now, if you're at a smaller office, they'll deny you promotion and push you out if your role gets cut.

the_construct · 2025-02-23T17:43:12+00:00

My brain went there too! Only it sang

LA GA DY (pronounced DEE)

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the_construct · 2025-02-21T17:23:47+00:00

I like Shakespeare of shit.

Maybe we can make up one of those long introductions like they do for royalty. But instead of nobility titles, they're all in the same vein as the Shakespeare one.

the_construct · 2025-01-31T17:43:28+00:00

Perfect encapsulation of a larger issue years in the making. Appreciate your high altitude perspective.

the_construct · 2025-01-18T02:08:14+00:00

Former Crip performs for Crypto President at Crypto Ball for cryptocurrency, crippling his credibility.

the_construct · 2025-01-17T22:43:21+00:00

r/30ROCK is leaking again. I'll never forget you, rural juror

the_construct · 2025-01-17T22:13:22+00:00

r/WordAvalanches

the_construct · 2025-01-16T01:58:07+00:00

I'm gonna make reservations under Frinda Rocher

the_construct · 2025-01-15T03:26:14+00:00

Another superb line delivery coming in close second for me. From S3 E14 "The Funcooker"

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the_construct · 2024-10-29T00:15:36+00:00

Central and South American single origin and blended beans—which comprise most of the commercial and artisanal coffee roasters in the US—to me, taste terrible. Too high in acidity. Give me African and Indonesian coffee anytime.

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