Reply To: Backhoe Contribution – adrian2301 – Chassis/Stabilizer/Fenders and the Engine. And the hydraulics for the swing frame.

[Omar Domenech]

Thanks for taking the time to write a great answer Kent. You are right of course, it’s myths and bloated perceptions all around. I’ve only worked as a graphic designer in a single place for 13 years, and that place isn’t even art related, it’s a bank, but in this country if you have an ok job you better not complain, because you are luckier than most. So I only have that place to draw an image in my head of what a workplace is like and as workplaces go, that hasn’t always been good.

When people that think in terms of excel spreadsheets and quarterly numbers, suits,  ties and briefcases are the ones who call the shots on art, well, you go through all the cliches: making something that works and looks good only to have it subverted over and over again, changes and changes and endless changes  that don’t makes sense and yet you end up at the beginning after all the wasted time and energy; trying to move approvals up the chain of command only to have things returned for more senseless requests, awesome things get rejected, ugly things get approved, vague descriptions of what they want, why bother making something cool if it’s going to get morphed beyond recognition into something worst every single time  and oh so many etc’s etc’s. After many many years it takes a huge toll and you think, dude is it possible to work on something devoted of opinions? where when it’s done it’s done the first time and no one has to toss their perception into the mix that cause it to be reset from square one?

So you figure well, this is the only thing I have ever known, I can’t be like this in places where everyone is art competent can it? and yeah based on what I have seen here in advert agencies it is actually better, but most of the same predicaments are ever present, from what I can tell it’s the nature of the beast when you work in the creative fields. You see it all over the internet, no matter the country. Things are never finished, only abandoned, and to try and get them at a place where they work, many and many iterations are unavoidable. I think where I’m trying to get at is that… that natural process inherent in creativity, I personally now associate it to pain, discomfort, weariness, exhaustion and relate it to the worst and never ending practices of my workplace. I’ve now realized as I write this, it must be some sort of PTSD… holy hell, this is amazing, sitting here typing I think I’ve unlocked where that unease comes from. I think I’m gonna go eat pineapple now, I think I’ve figured it out.