How much do you pull down?

I don't like sleeping in past 10. Even if I have nothing to do I feel like I'm wasting the day. I never get up at 5:30 so that wouldn't be an issue for me. 6:30 is when I wake up.

No way I could do that, shit last week one day I slept until 7, and felt bad about it.

Go to bed at 11, get up at 5:30

Go to bed at 2:30, get up at 5:30

When you have a screaming baby, you appreciate every second you are asleep. Enjoy it folks.

Wait, asians don't talk. It's a trap

I hate sleeping in, though.

If I work a late shift and I wake up anytime after 8 I feel like I just blew any chance to enjoy that day. Today was my fault for not having my alarm set and staying up until 3 last night.

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Originally Posted by kingoffighters

When you have a screaming baby, you appreciate every second you are asleep. Enjoy it folks.

That's what spanish nannies are for.

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Originally Posted by Bailey

Wait, asians don't talk. It's a trap

FORK YU!!!!

The only screaming asian I ever knew was Bruce Lee, and he kicked ass.

Kid bad ass Potential for KOF Jr: Huge.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Creatives who produce results for different client-types without drama are very, very hard to come by. Harder than any other position in a company to fill other than maybe a legit sociable and creative programmer.

bandit, listen to this advice. I couldn't have said it better myself. Also, fixed.

And you early risers are a bunch of crazy mother fuckers. I'm up at 6-6:30 just because I like to be in the office before people get there to do a good hour+ of quality uninterrupted work. But if I could I would be in at noon and working until 9. Or I would live in Spain.

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Haven't you been in the field for about a year? 40k is a good starting salary for a JR. I've even seen my friends get as low as 35k.

Are you getting laid off?

I've been with this job since Dec. 2007. I started at 34k.

Lets just say that we went through about 5 lay-offs. Each time they said they werent laying off, there was more. My department in general isnt considering they need us as we do populating of books and blurbs as well as prepress work. I wont mention whats really going on as I dont want it back firing on me. But I would say its worse than merging.

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It's a merger, you know the deal.

40k is a great starting salary for anybody under 23, period.

We officially merged as of the beginning of the year. 401k, vacations, benefits all switched over. I'm 26 =/. My pay is better than nothing.

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I started at 40k when I was 20. I make quite a bit more than that now, but I had to work hard to get there. Even got laid off my first job which always sucks. Turned out to be the best possible thing to happen to me, career-wise. Seeing where I was and where I am now makes me relieved it happened when it did. I was worried about my companies merger before the last month or so happened. All of my designs are being picked, and Microsoft even fucking gave us permission to bid on HUGE campaigns based on my work this past month for them.

bandit find somewhere you can grow, professionally. Sitting in a cubicle doing shampoo ads is going to fuck you for a career. You need to do tradeshow booths, ads, catalogues, brochures, posters, huge environmental signage, etc. Once you have all of this down pat and have the creative talent to really hit the nail with your designs you'll be irreplaceable. We get a lot of kids coming in here that either can't design or can't think creatively. If you can only do one you're useful, but will always be told what to do. If you prove yourself as someone who can do both and handle issues with professionalism your company will see you as a value, executive project-manager material. Creatives who produce results for different client-types without drama are very, very hard to come by. Harder than any other position in a company to fill other than maybe a legit programmer.

I slept in when I was laid off. I always seem to wake up at 9:30 though.

Where I am now, theres no moving up to Art Director. GA's are considered Studio while ADs are considered Creative. Two different departments and we dont work close with ADs. Which sucks and its not how a art department is suppose to be. My boss knows what I'm capable of. First person he goes to if he needs a job done is me. Then again, I sit right in front of his office.

We now get overtime pay even though we're salary. Before we didnt. Last year, I took vacation but still came in to work cuz I knew that if I took off, I know the workload that would be waiting for me.

I'm hoping my gfs godparents daughter, who is a graphic designer can hook me up with a job where she works. She designs bookcovers for books (Penguin Group). I'm hoping she can hook me up. I saw a open position on their website but when I went to apply, it was taken down.

I would of loved the job working at DC Direct. Designing cardboard backings of toys/figures, certificate of authencity, limited edition stickers, posters and catalogues. But they decided to hire someone else who had more experience in packaging =(