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| The continuing errosion of my industry. by Fussbett 05/03/2005, 3:45am PDT | ||||
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| I look at the founders of televisionwithoutpity.com writing for newspapers and MSN and even appearing on CNBC (despite being downright pig-faced!) and it makes me wonder why I don't turn a website idea into a career. Forget banner ad sales, it's all about parlaying. The answer is that I don't have the clever idea for a popular website. Regardless, lately I've been talking to Ray and INC about how I'd like to write for a living instead of what I do now, which is freelance graphic design or "multimedia development". The irony of that is both of them being better writers than me, but I have a step up on them in my writing career: I hate my current profession.
One of the reasons I hate my industry is that the floor gets lower every day. On the local job bulletin board that used to be a great source for freelancers to hook up jobs, the average job posting has 400+ views. Assuming that leads to just 100 resumes being sent, you figure at least one of those is a competant student who can do the job for $10/hour. In reaction to this, "Photoshop" is often just tacked onto job descriptions that are clearly for programmers, because everyone knows Photoshop at this point. Here's an actual job listing: Technologies / Software So as I try to hatch my escape plan, I discover another nail in the coffin, a site called designoutpost.com. The concept is that designers apply to be part of the DESIGN TEAM, and CLIENTS present jobs and accompanying prize money, all in a friendly forum structure. The DESIGN TEAM members compete to win the prize money by submitting artwork to the thread, and when the deadline hits a winner is selected and awarded the money. $125 for a logo design is highway robbery, and I can't even ridicule it because some of the designers are pretty good! I look at a thread with 6 designers doing multiple client revisions and first I think about the prize money being too little for the service but then I flip my keyboard when I realize that 5 of these dudes just worked for free. Logos, or even Web layouts. I think I might even just subcontact to that place the next time I get a graphic job. I can work on my new writing career and collect the first-world design paycheque while some dudes in south asia compete for my $200 and do my work. Then I'm laughing instead of Lou Dobbsing. |
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The continuing errosion of my industry. by 05/03/2005, 3:45am PDT  erosion NT by 05/03/2005, 4:04am PDT competent NT by 05/03/2005, 6:19am PDT hillarious NT by 05/03/2005, 2:02pm PDT Re: The continuing errosion of my industry. by 05/03/2005, 7:03am PDT They just started www.audiooutpost.com too NT by 05/04/2005, 7:00am PDT Re: They just started www.audiooutpost.com too by 05/04/2005, 7:16am PDT Design: way too easy! NT by 05/03/2005, 12:13pm PDT Re: The continuing errosion of my industry. by 05/03/2005, 1:53pm PDT Re: The continuing errosion of my industry (competant). by 05/03/2005, 2:35pm PDT better writers than I NT by 05/04/2005, 5:43pm PDT Hello. Have we met? NT by 05/04/2005, 5:52pm PDT better writers than I [am]. The am is silent. NT by 05/04/2005, 6:29pm PDT You can be the editor of my new imaginary career. NT by 05/04/2005, 6:38pm PDT Keeps you knee deep in topsoil by 05/09/2005, 6:26pm PDT I love talking about me. by 05/21/2005, 4:46am PDT Re: I love talking about me. by 05/21/2005, 8:10am PDT Re: I love talking about me. by 05/21/2005, 9:05am PDT Hmph! NT by 05/21/2005, 9:11am PDT Re: I love talking about me. by 05/21/2005, 10:10am PDT Re: I love talking about me. by 05/21/2005, 7:17pm PDT Design outpost: still going by 05/05/2009, 12:58pm PDT |
