dear potential employers
know that i am burned out. to a crisp. i used to have dreams of being a successful graphic designer, but i think those words are an oxymoron. i am not willing to sell my soul to be an agency player, so i am stuck in the wimpy design professions... publishing.
well, let me tell you about publishing. if the company is big enough to have a decent in-house staff, then it's probably run by ass-kissing idiots. if it's too small to have a large design staff, then it's probably run by one megalomaniac who will make you get his/her dry cleaning or get cream for their coffee. if you attempt to be assertive or unique in any way that might show up your low-minded boss, chances are you'll be thrown out like so much trash.
and after 15 years of devoting your life to the one thing you thought might make you happy until you retired (and back then you believed you could retire at actual retirement age), you've been used like a cheap, useless secretary and tossed away like a piece of shit. you now have nothing to offer anyone that they can't get from someone else at a cheaper price.
i can do anything you want in the design world. really. if i don't know it, i'll learn it. and i'll learn it well. not like other slackers who will bitch about having to do extra work, having to learn something outside their comfort zone. i mean, i'm not going to learn quantum physics or solve the world's energy crisis, but i'm willing to learn anything within reason.
i am not a piece of shit. i am also not a burden to management staff, regardless of what my ex-boss think and lies about to HR. i will revolutionize your department if you let me. and i want to. i don't just want to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life, punching buttons. but if you don't want me to come up with new ideas and try to streamline processes or organize messes, then don't bother hiring me. if you don't want someone who is smart and talented way beyond the classic designer, then don't even finish reading this sentence. if you THINK you'd want me, you hire me, and you turn out to be a petty asshole who does nothing else but point out my minor flaws, like maybe forgetting to attach something to an email, then go back to counting your beans and micromanaging your children. if all you want is someone to boss around, look elsewhere.
i'm smarter and better than anyone you'll ever hire. and you don't even know it.
well, let me tell you about publishing. if the company is big enough to have a decent in-house staff, then it's probably run by ass-kissing idiots. if it's too small to have a large design staff, then it's probably run by one megalomaniac who will make you get his/her dry cleaning or get cream for their coffee. if you attempt to be assertive or unique in any way that might show up your low-minded boss, chances are you'll be thrown out like so much trash.
and after 15 years of devoting your life to the one thing you thought might make you happy until you retired (and back then you believed you could retire at actual retirement age), you've been used like a cheap, useless secretary and tossed away like a piece of shit. you now have nothing to offer anyone that they can't get from someone else at a cheaper price.
i can do anything you want in the design world. really. if i don't know it, i'll learn it. and i'll learn it well. not like other slackers who will bitch about having to do extra work, having to learn something outside their comfort zone. i mean, i'm not going to learn quantum physics or solve the world's energy crisis, but i'm willing to learn anything within reason.
i am not a piece of shit. i am also not a burden to management staff, regardless of what my ex-boss think and lies about to HR. i will revolutionize your department if you let me. and i want to. i don't just want to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life, punching buttons. but if you don't want me to come up with new ideas and try to streamline processes or organize messes, then don't bother hiring me. if you don't want someone who is smart and talented way beyond the classic designer, then don't even finish reading this sentence. if you THINK you'd want me, you hire me, and you turn out to be a petty asshole who does nothing else but point out my minor flaws, like maybe forgetting to attach something to an email, then go back to counting your beans and micromanaging your children. if all you want is someone to boss around, look elsewhere.
i'm smarter and better than anyone you'll ever hire. and you don't even know it.
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