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🥴 something is telling me your portfolio isn’t keeping up with the times
It’s not ageist. In the world of design trends and tech evolve. I’ve worked with many designers with 20+ years under their belt and haven’t heard them complain about being treated with contempt. If anything they know a lot more about the evolution of things and have hastily different perspectives on design that are helpful.
I’m in many forums. Those who complain have simple not evolved or improved. I see people with portfolios from early ages of the internet complain about the industry. It says alot.
I’m 64 and graduated with a degree in Advertising Design from a big University. My job out of the gate was with J. Walter Thompson as a lowly board artist (which means no computers or Adobe products.) Then, the best job with a boutique Addy award winning agency in the DC/ Baltimore area, which led to family and my own agency in a county of 32,000 people. Not a lot of competition, so had the hospital, banks and utility company. Moved to Florida and I’d like to keep working, but no replies to resume applications. I took all of my dates off. Is that contempt for older designers?
Florida graphic design pay is terrible in general. beginners get paid almost as much as a fast good restaurant worker.
Remember way back when, when some of us older more seasoned designers were young, fresh, breaking rules, and thumbing our noses at the older design leaders who were still using Quark and Pagemaker. I distinctly remember having a decent amount of irreverence for them and perhaps even acting contemptuous (contrary) toward them. I feel what you're saying, I am experiencing that as well, but I think that's just how it is: the new guard wants the old guard out of the way, and our experience matters little to them. Let it go, I say.
Welcome to the real world
I remember an Art Director in NYC taking time to help me organize my messy Photoshop layers into an organized system. He didn't have to do that, but that caused me to help coworkers in the same way if I could. Still do.
Why are they being treated with contempt?
Huh?
don’t call it an industry. and this is pretty insulting to juniors.
I’m in my late 50’s. I was warned agism was real when I was an intern. I can’t think of anyone retiring from an agency that wasn’t a CEO or CCO. And even that’s a small number.