This time, much more potent.
Prelude:
It’s been months since I have used Medium, but I am taking this journey to brand myself and prevent the cataclysm that happened last time.
What happened last time?
Long story short, I got involved in a domestically-abusive relationship that essentially crushed years of confidence and flushed my work down the drain. I lost everything about designing somewhat literally, but maybe this is a good thing for me.
I learned so much about myself since then; and I think that the biggest thing that designing has taught me is that the process can’t be trusted unless you really put the effort in to get there.
Bottom line: I crashed and burned and now that I’m rebuilt, I think I need a little change.
Sure, I could toot my own horn and say that at one point, an associate from Adobe actually highlighted my resume, but this is not me now. This is me from what seems like a lifetime ago. This identity feels like it anchors me and prohibits me from developing something else, so (continued later)
Introduction:
With all of that said, designing a new resume is a top on my list. My goal this semester in general is to take a much more serious role as a designer and not be that fucking “camp counselor” anymore. People should know how to do hands-on things at this point, and I’m not going to bail anyone out no matter the circumstance.
Instead, this is the start of a new era—a new empire for me.
My Current Resume
After class, I looked over my resume and saw ERRORS. Ugh. Regardless, good. It gives me time to think how to rethink and see what areas of the resume worked/didn’t work.
I think coming back into design after basically taking 8 months off (I’m not counting last semester because fuck last semester) was a harrowingly rewarding experience for me. As I sit here now and freak out about my car brakes that are sounding like the first bite of a stale crunchy taco shell from Taco Bell, my mind shifts back to my personal branding.
Branding
Fuck I am bad at editing this. I’ve been so jumbled and it’s just been ridiculous trying to get myself back to steam.
Maybe that’s a sign that it’s about to come back. It happens usually when I’m about to get anything crazy going on with my work. Honestly, it excites me to write that because the more I think about it, the more likely it’s actually true.
I spent some time and made a shitton of thumbnails, but you can never have too many so there’s more in the worx.
I then digitized a couple, but I want to finish those other thumbs first.
