What is everyone's day job?

Going to architecture school in septembre.. don't have a day job yet :D

damn...whoever thought @ 20......i was among the older age bracket here lol. All you damn youngins lol

** Id like to accept this award for oldest person w/ out a job. Id first like to thank god...id like to thank my ass....for being so lazy and un-movable. Id also like to thank my computer...who im completely addicted to and forever in love with!




(lol)

26 years old

day job: senior designer -> interactive department -> large US media company

night job: freelance web designer, illustrator, cartoonist, painter

15, dark age of camelot/porn star(i keed i keed).

Here, I'll tell:

My fellow-geezer Pank and I have the same day job, trying to duck your Moms for our child-care responsibilities, for we are both old enough to be Dad to dang near all of you.

I know what Pank does for the big-bucks, but I won't tell, lest his black-agency bosses find and kill me.

Me, I work from my home, designing sales material for Real Estate agents, mostly. This involves redrawing maps, designing and redrawing logos in Illustrator (actually, I do TONS of different things in Illustrator), choosing photos, then optimizing, color and tonal corrections, cropping in Photoshop, as well as doing other elements in Photoshop, for one sheets, brochures, signage of all sorts. I'll do single page and signage stuff in Illustrator; multi-page stuff gets put together in InDesign. 90% of my work is done for companies 3 states away, so I have to manage highspeed FTP transfers as well as communicate with their local printers.

With dang near every new client also comes my lessons in how to optimize workflow so things are faster and easier for both of us. I haven't been able to figure out a way to charge for that, but by providing that info for "free" I have become known as a guy who can make it happen for even the most computer-illiterate clients. I get some nice job satisfaction from almost all my clients who tell me that they've worked with other graphic services providers (often in the same building or very close by to them), but that they have NEVER received the same high-level of customer service or quality of work and attention to detail. And I'm 300 miles away!

That makes me feel great, and it's the reason I don't like working for a big company. I can't control customer service in that environment, and it always mad me mad when the sales reps were idiots who only cared about getting more jobs out the door so they made better commissions.

Then, of course, there's my international reputation as a beer connoisseur and extreme gourmand.

Right now I interview people.

Just last week I applied for a job with a cd store. I'll have a meeting with them next week, wish me luck. In my time off I do freelance design work and I try to combine all of this with my education.

I run and own my own lemonade stand... makes pretty good money and some great lemonade

I'm 24, about to finish Grad School and am moving to Chicago (highest unemployment rate in the nation so I'm told) next month....Hoping to find a job, I may be teaching...whoo hooo....look out youngun's I may be at your school. If anyone knows of any jobs in the Chicago area HELPPPPP!

Might ask Pank..

i always wondered exactly what you did u23, i figured it was just hanging out around tps waiting for me to post illustrator questions :D

chris