So it looks like my announcement of the retirement of this site may have been a little premature. Trying to find a usable blog name/URL over at Blogger is a major hassle, because everything I try is taken by people who haven’t posted anything since 2003. So I might have to come up with another solution of some kind.
I’ve been doing some e-housecleaning lately, and I decided today that this blog is one of the things that’s going to go. This version of WordPress is seriously outdated (updating it is a minor hassle that I never feel like messing with), and I just found out that Spam Karma 2–the only thing that made dealing with all the comment spam manageable–is being dropped by its developer. Since this is such a magnet for unbelievable amounts of spam, that was kind of the final nail.
I started this blog as much as an experiment in managing a CMS by myself to see how it works and what kind of stuff can be done with one as I did it to do the traditional blog thing. I did learn some stuff in the process, so on that front it was a success, and–for a while–I blogged at least semi-successfully, so I guess that went okay, too.
I’ve gone through all the old posts and turned off comments for them, but I’ll leave them open for this post for a while for laughs. I think I’ll probably start another blog somewhere that won’t require me to manage it myself and where dealing with truckloads of comment spam will be somebody else’s problem. If I do it, I’ll post it here and probably on my Facebook and AAF profiles as well.
So until then, thanks for reading!
It’s been a long time since I posted anything here, and my last post was all bitchy. Hopefully this will be more fun.
This is my kitty. Every once in a while, she goes into this corner formed by where the bathroom door opens against the bathtub, and it always seems to bewilder her that she can’t get out the side that she wants to.
Oh, and this is my first YouTube ever. Wheee!
So here’s my story. I’m mad at the world and extremely frustrated.
I graduated 10 months ago, and I’ve spent seven of those months essentially out of work (I’ve had a part-time job that I work Saturdays). And even though the three months I worked at the sign shop weren’t all that great, at least I was doing something that used some of the stuff I learned at school. Anyway, so even though I still want desperately to be optimistic about the chances that I’ll get a graphic design job any day, that little daydream isn’t paying the bills, so I went out looking for a throwaway-type job and ended up with one at a shipping-type store. And it sucks. I work with freaking high school kids, for god’s sake.
Really, though, I just … man, I just don’t get it. I have to keep telling myself that I wasn’t just imagining that I was good. I got great grades. I graduated with honors, near the top of my class. Those grades were given to me by instructors who were people who really knew what they were doing and talking about, because they were people who are actual working graphic designers. People who run successful studios and who have worked on major projects with major companies and are able to charge tens of thousands of dollars for the work they do because it’s worth it. They told me that I do good work, and that wasn’t bullshit.
So why is it that everyone else I graduated with is working and has been working for months, and I’m still sitting on my thumb, waiting for any kind of break I can get? I send out my resume and samples of my work, and nobody ever calls me back. It feels like I must be doing something horribly, godawfully wrong, but I have no idea what it is.
Somebody on the AAFs made a joke the other day about how the him of ten years ago would have hated the him of today, and in context, it was funny, but the idea’s just been stuck in my head ever since then. I think that the me of ten years ago might have taken a nosedive off a cliff if he’d seen the me of today, and I’m really not sure that would be the wrong move to make.
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Thanks for the lols, Blizzard!