Comments on: this could possibly qualify as a revelation

By: chaizzilla

chaizzilla — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 07:06:36 +0000

i dug help desk a lot, looooved it when i worked at a place w/mature managers, etc. made the mistake of taking a pay & purpose but to work for a cooooool company doing tech support and still have a nervous laugh at the end of ‘but i survived it’. people claim tech support burns people out but i think it comes from techs getting treated like disposables. anyway, carbon monoxide & all kinds of crazy crazy sh*t later i am slowly creeping my way into a field that jives with my entire life’s ‘daydreams’ so well i sorta wonder how things could have turned out if i’d managed to hook up with a single career counselor in high school who had the guts to discourage pursuing fine arts as long as i was so sure i was gonna be a rock star anyway. but anyway, i get five years to make my 40s actually kinna cool coz i’ll finally get to be a real scientist & resident of canada & that sorta thing. kinna funny how that works.

By: typenik

typenik — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:46:54 +0000

I know that feeling well and can totally sympathise. It is certainly a scary place to find yourself, and it's surprising how little guidance there is out there for rebuilding your drive once you've reached that point.

After a lot of thinking, I'm not sure that it's AD/graphic design that I've grown to dislike, but just the whole nature of having to work for a living. All those hours of my life that I'll never come close to getting back and was nowhere near being adequately compensated for. I still bristle and seethe when I really think about it.

You may just be tired of playing the game of looking for work rather than the job itself. There are much worse and soul-sucking career paths out there than design, IMHO.

You should consider taking a "vacation" of sorts away from the job searching and do some soul searching instead. Figure out what it is you enjoy doing and get pleasure from in life. Pursue it, and actively make more time for it in your life, and breathe some of the purpose back in. Then see if there are any leads there for other career opportunities. There are always options out there, and you may find something you enjoy doing more.

Hopefully, this is just a springboard for the bigger and better. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. :)

By: archanglrobriel

archanglrobriel — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 02:02:40 +0000

I have -so- been here. OMG it was scary as all hell. It felt like the only thing I -could- do and have people pay me for was just going away. I was in tech support, getting big bucks for what I did and I suddenly realized I literally could NOT do it anymore. But I had nothing else, I felt, to offer.
It was horrible. It was so scary. It was like waking up in a bugs bunny cartoon where you've accidentally run out of a tunnel over a cliff and you're suddenly pedalling air.

But

that being said, it was the beginning of the end, or maybe the end of the beginning - of me realizing I had to do something different with my life. So even though it sucked at the time, and even though I'm still scared as hell right now and still not sure of anything except putting one foot in front of the other, all in all I have to view it as a good thing.

I'm hoping this is the "snap" that was needed to start the Universe putting some good things, good opportunities in front of you.