I always hate it when people ask me what I do for a living. I hate it even more when my wife asks me what she should tell people when they ask her what I do for a living. People who know me best ask what I’m working on, which is always easier to answer. I’ve realized that the harder I work in the field of new media, the harder it is to put any sort of title on what I actually am and what I actually do. I find myself telling my wife to give different responses depending on my current project work-load. This has led to some severe employment split personality issues and a very confused spouse.<\/p>\n
The field of new media is an odd one when it comes to titles. I think its the only field where individual pieces of a project incur the necessity of specific categories of talent that historically are different people and not multi-talented individuals. If this ideal made its way into other fields we would lose mechanics and gain oil change technicians; forget hair dressers and welcome hair comb specialists and blow dryer operators. I think its more important than ever that we stop being copy-writers, modelers, and designers and we start trying to stretch ourselves into the scary realm of “oh, I’m horrible at doing…”.<\/p>\n
Long-gone are the days of the big ad agencies, even though a small few eek by with their cornerstone “big” clients that could bankrupt them at the drop of a hat. I’ve worked at every style of agency and interactive house from the boutique, to the tiny, to the large and I’ve learned that grasping the ability to span right-brain and left-brain duties is the best way to stay important and truly grow. If it’s scary then you’re DAMN right it’s worth it.<\/p>\n
That being said, pick up a book on one of those things you keep seeing other people in the office or cubicle next to you excel at. Go grab a subscription to Lynda.com<\/a> or Digital-Tutors<\/a> and start earning the title of “Whatever it Takes” and you’ll start becoming “What it Takes”. Your future will thank you for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I always hate it when people ask me what I do for a living. I hate it even more when my wife asks me what she should tell people when they ask her what I do for a living. People who know me best ask what I’m working on, which is always easier to answer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13,18,31,39,40,41,53,58,61,69,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelplacement.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}