at the end the day your a brainy git on the computer can you not get something using those skills. ??
Tried that working for myself and it's so hard to 1st motivate myself and then 2nd chasing down clients and getting the work. Then the client always wants constant little changes made for free of course. Oh can you just change this and then change that. They don't realise the work and time that goes into it. No room to be creative and have them see someone else's vision and how it will work for them as they have their own idea's. Then why hire me then. They may as well go and install a mobile app and use some crappy presets that look exactly the same as everyone else's. Hey screw the quality you may as well take the photo on your phone while your at it.
Not only that being stuck on my own is so lonely so I wanted to get out and about and sitting in front of a screen all day is making me go blind as well as being unhealthy. My eyes are deteriorating with age and screens don't help. Getting a job with a firm is not easy as they either want younger ex uni students with degree's or someone with proven experience under their belt. Self employment don't count. Then they want someone that knows absolutely everything. I'd be happy working (more like fun than work) in Photoshop all day retouching images and doing some creative composition work which I am a master at, but companies now require one to do web stuff and Illustrator work which I know but am not a master or as comfortable with, amongst other things like microshite word etc. I hate microsoft with avengeance and wont insult my Mac by installing that rubbish and refuse to use it. So unintuative and crap. I would much prefer to use InDesign or Quark.
Then the industry is constantly changing so fast I have kind of given up. Got fed up learning , learning and learning and it's not got me anywhere, then there's something new to learn around the corner or problems to work out and hack, find a work around. It's not as if a lot of updates are an extension to what they have done already either as at times they change things completely like Final Cut Pro. Then there is all the insecure and slow cloud rubbish. I struggle to keep up now because I have stopped updating.
It's never ending and things are moving away from pro applications to general consumer based app's or should I say crapp's. Final cut pro is gone and has been dumbed down with Final Cut Pro X. It's totally shite now and aimed at consumers. I think I know the industry too well to the point now where I dislike it and the technology so much. I want a more simple life where I am not sucked into the consumerism designed around companies like Apple making money with updates and changes every 5 minutes. One can spend their life updating and working around the bugs and other issues and then another update comes out and it starts all over again. The internet is wombles, full of shite and run by tossers like google, social networking sites and full of spyware, malware, ransomware etc and selling our souls. The internet is not what Tim Berners Lee intended it to be. I'm more into the dark side now and moving more torwards the underground. Security and privacy comes first. If I can master Unix and the terminal then maybe move towards the system admin side of things. I'm too old school to accept the direction it's all heading in and I remember how good it used to be. Now anyone can go and edit images or build a site using some crappy pre built template or online based website builder. It wont be the same quality but folk don't seem to care or even realise that the quality or usability is crap. It's all about getting it out there as quickly and as cheaply as possible.
Sorry that turned into a bit of a rant. I'm not in the best of moods as I have not long got back in from late shift at work.
Oh what lovely legs you have, can you wear a shorter skirt tomorrow 
