Jennifer Cirpici is a Dutch graphic designer and blogger.
Designers are often people who are stubborn, full drive, and good or bad planning, but not in between. Designers can also be hard workers.
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In fact, designers are strange people to understand. We think a lot about all we overanalyze situations, we can spend hours on a project without realizing that time passes and we have a very direct opinion.
Outside, the designers are hard to follow. Often people do not understand how we live a life with so much tension still seem to enjoy. Stress is our enemy, but our best friend.
If you are a designer, this is not something new to you.
You've probably been to design events and have seen the designers of success with the kind of achievements that you can only dream of one day. These professionals travel to the country to talk about their work and what it means for them.
I too am a speaker - I appeared in six events and attend my seventh in July . I spoke twice to OFFF Festival FITC and Yay festival.
The first bit of success came to me at the age of 19, when I got kicked out of school. Immediately after that, I started working in design agencies.
Design is the first thing in my mind when I wake up to when I'm in the shower when I close my eyes to sleep. Most people do not realize how lonely we can be. We are often busy with our careers, and unless your family or social circle suffer the same lifestyle, it is difficult for others outside your industry to understand why you live that way.
I can not speak for all the world of course, but for designers and contractors, their careers are all for them. Often we do not realize that there are other things in the world too.
The realization came to me when I was working in agencies and began to notice that I could not think of anything else. Worse, I do not have it know anything else. Design was all I had.
Step out of your comfort zone
After the epiphany, I concluded it was time to take a break. I decided to study something completely different. Social work
To date, I do not regret my decision. Yes, it is difficult to go back to being a full-time student after a professional career. It is sometimes difficult to understand the other students and they understand me. When I travel between my studies in a country to talk about my work, they do not really get the stress that comes with it.
But what has really opened my eyes is that I have a position to help people around me during my internships. I have the opportunity to help people with dementia, autism and other incurable diseases. During my internship, people eager to see social workers every week because it makes their full days. Some even cry at the thought of leaving us in the summer when the course ends.
I've never known anyone cry in front of me because they are happy with what I have done for them and they are going to miss it. Usually when people cry about, you do not receive witness.
The breaks can improve your original passion
You might think that a break of four years studying for my bachelor's degree would be back from my creativity and design skill set. In fact, this is not true. As you move away from the computer and to understand people and the world around you, the more they inspire you. They give your brain the break he needed so badly because you are able to focus on other things.
Before having the pressure to design something. Now I want to.
My advice is that when you find yourself stuck in your industry - whatever it is - and note that you do not, the major significant progress in life, take a break . Find joy in something else and learn something different.
You'll see that by getting out of your comfort zone and take risks, it will make you better as a person. Your passion will always live inside of you. A break will never change if you do not want to.