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after 4.5 years out of college, working in-house, freelance, and youtube, i am finally getting solid, dream clients. don’t give up, pace yourself, and just do the work. someday shit will start to fall into place, keep your head up.
there were so many god damn fucking times jobs brought me to near s****de. i’ve sold nudes to cover my bills while designing in-house. so many times i wanted to quit. i lost hope quite often, but this is the only thing i can do well so i had to stick to it out of my own pride.
i’ve been fired from design jobs, screamed at in the bathroom by a boss while crying on the phone to my mom, harassed on the clock, and almost get evicted from my apartment bc i never made enough money from design. PLEASE do not give up.
and this all comes from an incredibly privileged life. i always had a safety net, but it was a dead last resort. why i didn’t really have was a support system, someone (other than matt) i could turn to and ask for support. now i do, and that’s one of the most valuable aspects.
the design space is RUTHLESS and it WILL eat you up and spit you out over and over again. but you have to keep giving it another shot. i used to compare myself to other designers and please believe me when i say this is INCREDIBLY TOXIC.
go at YOUR pace, go with YOUR flow, take BREAKS even if it’s an hour or a month. don’t push yourself to the edge like i did, it almost cost me my life. when i was at my worst, my hair was falling out in handfuls daily and lost my appetite entirely. my body was shutting down.
and the biggest thing, it’s OKAY to come to the conclusion design isn’t right for you. it happened to me with fashion design. it was a gut feeling and i wasn’t happy in it. changing your mind is NOT failure.
i see designers compare themselves to people who have a lot more experience than them (my past self included) — please do not do this. it does you no favors. work for YOU, not to emotionally compete with someone who has a decade of experience on you. stay focused on improving.
something i wish i did sooner: set ~very~ realistic goals and expectations. don’t expect to do an album cover for post malone out of school (it’s totally possible, but you set your bar VERY high and then feel like shit when it’s not achieved)
our hypercapitalist design society monetizes success and it is counterintuitive to the core principles of art. we feel this nauseating pressure to be AS SUCCESSFUL AS POSSIBLE at an impossibly young age. this crippled me as a 20 year old college grad working at an agency.
anyway, that’s my accidental creative career inspo thread! thank you everyone who gave me a chance, i hope someone gives you the chance i got 
if anyone has other early creative field advice, please share so we can all suffer less.
if anyone has other early creative field advice, please share so we can all suffer less.
