Does this make you cringe too?

And what trick or treating and being a designer have in common.

Your strengths are not limited to your achievements or the things you put on paper or a metal plaque.

Relying on your talent alone isn’t enough to get you the job/raise/promotion/work-life balance that you’ve dreamed of.

It seems that no one realized creatives needed a different system of working in the corporate world: The corporate systems in place are not designed to support artists, designers and creatives, and oftentimes our creativity is the first thing that goes–But it doesn’t have to be like that.

Most people assume that once they land that first job in the career they want, they’re going to be on their way–That once you’re in it, you naturally get taken down a career path.

But a career of purpose and intention requires purpose and intention.

I wasn’t expecting him to necessarily love any of them, but I wasn’t prepared for the words that came out of his mouth…

It was a year-long whirlwind of being called into something I never dreamed I would do.

I was a few weeks into my first full-time assistant design job and I was shocked that this was real life. After all, I thought this kind of thing only happened in movies?