Life Collage Script
I started University having worked for ten years, I didn’t have much to show for it, barely a career.
It didn’t really help applying for anything higher because I couldn’t pretend I had the experience and that would make me a liar.
I have worked in roles I didn’t like, I didn’t want or didn’t enjoy and it seemed as if I should give education another try, without any more of my life passing me by.
I want to pursue the weird curiosities in life, by going to a job that doesn’t bring me strife. After my master’s degree I could become a project lead, a media consultant or teacher by the time my hairline fully recedes.
You need a level up from what you want to teach, and I think in all honesty id be good, even if for right now it’s just out of reach. I’d want to help share the knowledge I’ve gained and I want my work to make me happy not just for my wage.
Rob spoke of an unattainable triangle, and how you should aim for two out of three. Well compared to what I know if I get at least one that should be enough for me.
Mistakes in hindsight are crystal clear to see, but that’s okay because that is growth and a learning opportunity.
It isn’t what you want but what do you want to achieve and marching on is helping me believe. Believe in the things I want, and I crave from the small to the improbable, its worth being brave.
To have a house, a garden a dog maybe even a couple of kids with a ring on my finger and bank balance more than a few of quid.
Most of all I want a king size because my partner fights for more space, even though she’s 5 foot 8 the edge of the bed is my place.
Getting my things down on the page and clearing the vessel to sort the thoughts that brought me hassle. Like what colour works here, does the object need a stroke and I should have a break, oh sod it I’m off for a smoke.
I know my subject enough to know I don’t know much, and there a million things to still learn for design and such. Like how I can sell an idea correctly and how much do I know that intuitively. I guess I must take the time and grow, maybe i won’t make money but I might have something cool to show.
I appreciate the people I have met and know, who knows what doors may open if I let this life flow. Ill make mistakes and ill make some more but it beats the 9-5 I’ve lived for sure.
In all honesty I don’t know exactly what I want to be, as there’s so many options beyond my degree. Its meeting the right people, the right time, the right place. But ill be certain to shake their hand firmly and make them remember my face.
Il be open minded in my approach to design, hopefully you will see ideas out in the world that are mine.
There’s a hell of long way to go, and I know its cliché, but this little reflection is not bad as I carry on my way.
Quotes and attributions
Quotes are highlighted in blue through this presentation. Not every aspect of the quote is a direct 1:1 but use the ethos and spirit of the quote in the context of this piece. The list of sources and direct versions of the quotes are at the end of this short.
1: Stewart Liliford “You can’t get experience, because you don’t have a job. Repeats forever.”
2: Avani Shah “Pursue the weird curiosity, the stuff that comes out when you are writing. Interrogate something that may make you squeamish and uncomfortable as the story develops.”
3: Adrian Mills “We need a degree level higher than what you are looking to teach.”
4: Robert Consoli The unattainable triangle
5: Chris Newell “Some “mistakes” become crystal clear in hindsight when it is published in whatever medium they are out in.”
6: James Cherry “J: Guide the conversation and tell them what you think the right approach would be, discuss this with your team. It’s not what do you want, it’s what do you want to achieve?”
7: Lisa Marini “Get things down on a page and “clear the vessel” to help create from a clean slate.”
8: Dan Wonnacott “Every task I intuitively don’t know I will go off for twenty minutes and try and work out the answer for it.”
9: Hugh Vincent “We won’t make a fortune, but we will make a game”
10: David Grant “Approach situations with a positive attitude, the industry can be quite insular and people within it may grow to recognise you and this may open doors for you down the line.”
11: Abbie Carmicheal “We made every mistake you could make”
12: Jason Hayhurst “It can be better to be more open minded in your approach to design philosophy and not to be bound by the constraints that are generally present”
