This was entry 50 once
In the name of all that is holy, let the spastic weekends like the one now past cease to be forever!
There, my frustrations are vented.
Words of hard-wrought wisdom for today: if anyone you know is
a design type--no matter whether your acquaintance is an architect,
interior designer, graphic designer, artist, a city or regional
planner, or whatever--give him or her a hug the next time you meet.
Chances are that that person has put up with a lot
of crap to get where he or she is today, likely more crap than
lowly engineers like myself will ever encounter. "But, Rob, there
is such a glut of designers in our shallow, yuppie-driven service
economy," you may say. "How hard could it be to become a designer?"
It's much harder to go into design than you know, my friend.
It's much harder to go into design than I know. And the
preponderance of designers is not a result of easy rites of
passage, but a factor in the difficulty of that torture.
So please, hug a designer today. Hug one long and hard,
because designers are people too, with feelings; feelings
that are easily worn by the intensity of their work. Hug
a designer, because... because.
Thank you.