Mike Needs a Life Blog Reposts – Part 06

September 4, 2008
Week Three Closes In

Well, as week three comes to a close, I feel as if I’ve wasted all the time I can relaxing and letting my brain melt back down into my skull. I think I’ve screwed with my resume as much as I can screw with it. At this point it’s a crap shoot, either the receiver likes it or doesn’t. I came to the conclusion that I needed to make it something that I myself liked, and if it got me an interview, then that’s one step closer to me liking the job because they chose me based on my resume. Well it makes sense in my head even if it doesn’t when I write it out.

I can’t even remember if I took a shower this morning.. my God, what’s happening to me.

I’m almost done building my ‘portfolio’ website, I think it’s pretty cool, I’ll be sure and link it here when it’s done. I think I’ve been dragging my feet on those two things (resume and portfolio) because I know that when they’re done, there are no more excuses.. time to start applying for jobs. Trouble is I don’t LIKE any of the job opportunities I’ve see so far for graphic artists. I’m really beginning to wonder if I should even be a graphic artist, I have so much contempt for the field. But career change is even more difficult to imagine. The only thing I have to go on is that I’d like to work at a small company. Shit, that could be anything.

I had lunch with an ex-colleague of mine last week. He and I worked pretty closely at GJ to build the graphics department, and now he’s in a similar situation at his current office. He’s trying to pull together a centralized graphics department, and we talked about the possibility of me coming to work with him if he gets approval for his plan from the big cheeses. I’m sure some of you reading this know who I’m talking about, others won’t, but that’s OK, for now let’s call him MR X.

I hesitate to mention this here because I am a bit superstitious sometimes, and fear that I may jinx a good opportunity by talking about it. Well fuck it. It’s interesting. Mr X’s firm has about 1200 employees, and they do community planning-type stuff just like GJ does. They’re based out of Canada, but have many local offices, and if I were to get this gig, I’d be working out of their Maitland branch. Essentially it’d be like going back in time for me to the spot in my life at GJ that I was still happy. Happy I think because I was building something.. not the books, and diagrams.. that stuff is crap.. but building a department, a style, laying down the gauntlet. This is the type of thing I can really get excited about. I told Mr X that I had decided that I wanted to work at a small company and maybe give up graphics altogether, but that I would seriously consider taking the job if offered because I would be able to work with him again, and that was something I think we both really enjoyed back in the heyday. Anyway, no news yet on that situation, I guess he’s still working with his bosses to figure out the details.