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Old 12-19-2008, 01:15 PM   #6
wonderboy
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Personaly I'm extremely competitive but thinking I havent realy met a creative person who isnt competitive to at least a certain degree. To get customers is like being in constant competition with the best in your field, therefore you need to love to create new designs, coz maintaining a steady flow of buisness means you have to always, always stay at the very top of your game, and never slack down for any reason, and to do this comes quite easy if you realy have passion for what you do. In any design field theres always place for more as all designers design different and not all clients are looking for the same thing, therefor even if you aply by a company already using the best in the world, you have a good fighting chance to worm your way in there as you might just design in that certain way they were looking for until now.
A company will always take the person who's best capable to represent their message to the people no matter if its your 1st job or if you the best, as long as you keep a steady flow of high quality work so they can de3pend on you.
Then dont ever be intimidated by high flyer designers, they were once exactly where you are with maybe even half of your tallent, and if anyone else can do something you can do it to, and if you like the idea of being the best, you probably can do it even better. Then never give up on trying, even one day when you the best and never get discouraged if ever givven negative critisism from anyone, if someone give you sht over some design dont take it personal, in short that just means they dont have the same taste as you, another company or person might have loved that same idea. Once you get used to the design environment you'll be able to also recognise companies who's into the tipe of designs you good at and youl be able to spend your time impressing them rather than waste productive energy on companies you can see is looking for something else.
But keep it up and never think about the money to much even though its important to make a living, do it coz you love designing and like to prove your ability in a world of wolves and i guarentee you, if you love your work and keep learning every single time and always try to be the best out there, the money will start coming in and when it does it would come in bigger amounts than you ever thought it would. And 1 last thing, there isnt so much as a "regular" client out there coz even if a company love your work and therefore regularly use your services, once they find someone they love even more they wont be your regular client anymore, this is realy a everything eats everything tipe of industry where you only as good and popular as your last design, so just make sure you have the bigger teeth and always stay hungry to eat everything crossing your path.
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