CamarotaDesign
01-01-2008, 12:22 PM
TO POST MORE ON GDF!
How are you All!!! I miss you guys, I'm so sorry I've been MIA. My job as a fulltime web designer is killing me. I really don't think I am cut out for a career as a fulltime web designer, it's like regular design, on top of computer programming! So stressful.
I've wanted to say hello for the longest time, but a mixture of shame and lack of brain cells has been the culprit for keeping me away.
SERIOUSLY PEOPLE - If you did not start off as a full time web designer, be verrrry careful about going into the field, Webdesign is evil!!!!! lol, (well not exactly). But it will eat all your brain cells and creativitiy and ability keep in touch with the human world. It's worse than drugs!!!! (well, maybe not all) I am working on a big project for a big web company right now, and if I had known what I was getting myself into I think I would have rather gone homeless... (well again, not exactly, but considering how much you can make collecting cans in a college party town, it makes me wonder......)
Well, such is life, I really miss being able to chat here during work hours but it's just too hard to sneak off on GDF offtopic during the day and once I get off, my brain is so fried, there are only a few options--. one is work out intensively just to keep off the 5 lbs a week that is gained simply by sitting down for 8 hours a day, and the other is watch my golden state warriors basketball team as they continue to be one of the most exciting NBA teams ever! but aside from that, I really just don't have the brainpower to think creatively past 5:30pm these days and you good people do not deserve the bullshit posts that I would plague this forum with if I did.
So.....
My other new years resolution: Finish this conundrum of a designproject in the next 2 weeks and start posting more here!!!! I think once this is done I will have the time and wits. But seriously, web design is evil!! (as stated above) It will sap all energies from your body! and I am not talking a few hours a day to build a personal or friend's site. I am talking hardcore development with javascript/jquery, active server pages, CSS, and semantic xhtml, and working in a microsoft visual studio environment with 40 programmers who don't know crap about aesthetics but everything about making a designer's life hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah! ok, time for the positive:
Life aside from the aforementioned atrocity has been great! I am gaining amazing amounts of design experience in web developtment and User Interface (though I would prefer to keep that hidden from my next potential employers and hope they hire me to be a print designer) I am loving my life in beautiful northern california and the fact that I live in a city where I can ride a bike everywhere, including work in a few minutes (There have been many mornins where I roll out of bed at 8:10 and get to work by 8:30) I love working with my coworkers and for a very stable and prosperous company where I can be confident that a paycheck is coming in each week, and my pay no longer makes me feel like a chump.
Anyways... on to funner stuff: I learned to ride a unicycle this summer!, (think I posted that before I went MIA, but now I am kicking ass at it) bought a pimp 1974 mercedes diesel sedan in great condition which I now run off biodeiesel and feel good about driving, both because it is good for the environment, and it looks ssssliiiick. I am slowly restoring it to it's original glory too. The latest jobs are new front and rear windsheilds, reuhpolstering the cab ceiling, new stereo, new shocks, and new electronic systems. I love the thing and looking forward to many years with it. I also learned to drive a stick, (as a result of the car purchase) got a new computer (PC!!!, forget macs when a PC =$2000 less!!! + same capabilities!) My jazz artwork is still selling good and I plan on investing a lot into it over the next year, and hopefully be able to live solely on that income. I also have talked to some investors and talks are under way regarding a business ventre.
But I think the biggest, most important thing is that I have made a very conscious effort in, is to live life to it's fullest and stay positive. In the last year the notion that all good things come through a positive attitude has taken a deep root in my way of life and has effected me in a postive way that I never thought imaginable. we are all capable of reaching our dreams, we just need to believe that we can.
so with that, hoping I am not being too self indulgent, I want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! and hope that all things good coming the great community of GDF!
How are you All!!! I miss you guys, I'm so sorry I've been MIA. My job as a fulltime web designer is killing me. I really don't think I am cut out for a career as a fulltime web designer, it's like regular design, on top of computer programming! So stressful.
I've wanted to say hello for the longest time, but a mixture of shame and lack of brain cells has been the culprit for keeping me away.
SERIOUSLY PEOPLE - If you did not start off as a full time web designer, be verrrry careful about going into the field, Webdesign is evil!!!!! lol, (well not exactly). But it will eat all your brain cells and creativitiy and ability keep in touch with the human world. It's worse than drugs!!!! (well, maybe not all) I am working on a big project for a big web company right now, and if I had known what I was getting myself into I think I would have rather gone homeless... (well again, not exactly, but considering how much you can make collecting cans in a college party town, it makes me wonder......)
Well, such is life, I really miss being able to chat here during work hours but it's just too hard to sneak off on GDF offtopic during the day and once I get off, my brain is so fried, there are only a few options--. one is work out intensively just to keep off the 5 lbs a week that is gained simply by sitting down for 8 hours a day, and the other is watch my golden state warriors basketball team as they continue to be one of the most exciting NBA teams ever! but aside from that, I really just don't have the brainpower to think creatively past 5:30pm these days and you good people do not deserve the bullshit posts that I would plague this forum with if I did.
So.....
My other new years resolution: Finish this conundrum of a designproject in the next 2 weeks and start posting more here!!!! I think once this is done I will have the time and wits. But seriously, web design is evil!! (as stated above) It will sap all energies from your body! and I am not talking a few hours a day to build a personal or friend's site. I am talking hardcore development with javascript/jquery, active server pages, CSS, and semantic xhtml, and working in a microsoft visual studio environment with 40 programmers who don't know crap about aesthetics but everything about making a designer's life hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah! ok, time for the positive:
Life aside from the aforementioned atrocity has been great! I am gaining amazing amounts of design experience in web developtment and User Interface (though I would prefer to keep that hidden from my next potential employers and hope they hire me to be a print designer) I am loving my life in beautiful northern california and the fact that I live in a city where I can ride a bike everywhere, including work in a few minutes (There have been many mornins where I roll out of bed at 8:10 and get to work by 8:30) I love working with my coworkers and for a very stable and prosperous company where I can be confident that a paycheck is coming in each week, and my pay no longer makes me feel like a chump.
Anyways... on to funner stuff: I learned to ride a unicycle this summer!, (think I posted that before I went MIA, but now I am kicking ass at it) bought a pimp 1974 mercedes diesel sedan in great condition which I now run off biodeiesel and feel good about driving, both because it is good for the environment, and it looks ssssliiiick. I am slowly restoring it to it's original glory too. The latest jobs are new front and rear windsheilds, reuhpolstering the cab ceiling, new stereo, new shocks, and new electronic systems. I love the thing and looking forward to many years with it. I also learned to drive a stick, (as a result of the car purchase) got a new computer (PC!!!, forget macs when a PC =$2000 less!!! + same capabilities!) My jazz artwork is still selling good and I plan on investing a lot into it over the next year, and hopefully be able to live solely on that income. I also have talked to some investors and talks are under way regarding a business ventre.
But I think the biggest, most important thing is that I have made a very conscious effort in, is to live life to it's fullest and stay positive. In the last year the notion that all good things come through a positive attitude has taken a deep root in my way of life and has effected me in a postive way that I never thought imaginable. we are all capable of reaching our dreams, we just need to believe that we can.
so with that, hoping I am not being too self indulgent, I want to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! and hope that all things good coming the great community of GDF!