I'm FINALLY beginning to get my portfolio thoughts together and started looking in my city for other designers portfolios. What the F? Design firms...firms i've interviewed at, have shittastic websites, if you can even call them websites. It's a splash page with a phone number listed, an email address and a link to a pdf of their portfolio. Really? Is that what companies here are reduced to? Or is that common? Do all companies do this? No. I looked for firms in Chicago and they have normal websites. At last normalcy was restored but i'm still flaborgasted. One firm in particular that I was very disappointed to not get a job at has NOTHING for a website now. No email address, even. Just a phone number and a pdf. The pdf says NOTHING about the company and just has samples of their work. It's all stuff I can do in my sleep, so I'm not impressed with them anymore. I just don't understand though. If this is the trend of things to come, then yes - I'll have to move to Chicago to get work. I know I can't freelance. It's too competitive and I really don't want to do it. I want a job with an office and benefits.
I don't really know if I can stay at my current job. The company is doing so poorly I don't know how they'll manage to stay afloat and I don't want to go down with the ship. On the other hand, if they stay working there are such exciting projects coming up that I really want to be part of. That could turn into a whole other Oprah - I don't think they'll involve me as far as graphic design goes and that will fucking piss me off. You're broke and you have a very capable marketing department, but you've hired an outside marketing firm? WTF? And who hired that firm...THE MARKETING DIRECTOR! Says a lot about her skills and confidence. She won't include mne in things...I just know it. I want to be involved in projects from conception to completion, but they won't let me. I'm more capable than any of them are and still they doubt me.
I guess I'm more angry than I admit.
