Pretty tired of always getting shamed for not having personal projects or other avenues of creativity.

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Totally agree. Know what my side hobby is? Trying to be a good husband and enjoying myself. Seeing friends and watching goddamn Netflix.

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And I don't know why there's anything wrong with that ugh

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I feel this SO hard. Everyone expects designers to want to do calligraphy/photography/painting in their spare time, but I just see it as 'what additional creative hobbies do you have that we can one day exploit for a pitch?' because if your CD gets wind of your creative hobby, they will find a way to use it.

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Agencies depend on creatives not being able to separate their work from themselves. They want the work to feel so much like a part of our souls that we’ll accept less than we deserve to make the agency more money.

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My personal project is life.

This sounds cliche but the more you can ignore me the shaming the better.

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