I overestimated how fast I could make the drawings. The client for my private commission asked for changes. This hurts...
My aunt also messaged me, asking me to help her make a set of advertising brochures tonight... I have to get all of this done tonight... Another day of working overtime, sigh.
Why did I have such a brain lapse and study design in the first place... After I graduated, all the Taobao promotional images, logo designs, and advertising brochures for relatives' businesses fell to me. If I refused, my dad would say I wouldn't even help my own uncles and aunts... I... don't even have the strength to complain...
Luckily, I took quite a few graphic design courses in college. Otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to handle this stuff.
Speaking of which, I really have to complain: the design industry in China is genuinely a mess. I specialized in interior design, but just a few days after joining my first internship company after graduation, they asked me to work part-time as a graphic designer and video editor. In other words, they used me as three different specialists, yet paid me only 800 yuan a month... I lived on dirt for three months before they finally made me a full employee and raised it to 3,000-plus... Newbies like me in interior design really have it rough...
My classmate switched to graphic design and started at 6,000-plus. I'm so jealous... Why was I so stubborn about going into interior design back then...? (Staring at the sky in melancholy)