When I tell most people that I’m a graphic designer, they seem pleasantly surprised. It seems to conjure up images of me sitting in a meadow sipping coca-cola and sketching logos for some environmental non-profit.
Well, truth be told, that isn’t so far off. Just replace meadow with cave of computers, sketching with vectorizing, and environmental non-profit with “anyone with money”.
I don’t wear much high-contrast clothing and my apartment is very poorly decorated. I think I might have been born to be a computer programmer, but ended up as a graphic designer featuring programming abilities. I think this is why I’m not prepared for the #1 drawback of being a designer–which is that you’re designing for other people, not for yourself.
When I’m writing software, it either works, or it doesn’t. You never have to move a semi-colon a quarter inch to the left.
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being a computer programmer myself makes me very proud of my job’:’
my sister is a computer programmer and she earns lots of buxx from it~..