Graphic Design and/or Web Design. Nothing but AI and recruiter nonsense these days.

I’m currently job hunting for the first time in >7 years, and things have changed so much… it’s honestly so damn demoralizing.

I’m imagining IT peeps wearing ThinkPads as loinclothes now

“Fundamental” is awfully subjective, though, isn’t it?

I bought a couple of sweaters online today, and the order form asked for a tip.

No.

Eh, I get the cynicism, because it’s hard not to feel it myself. But if I can change, so can they 🤟

I didn’t choose to be born. I didn’t choose to be adopted into a dysfunctional family. I didn’t choose to be raised as a little bigot. I did choose to walk away when I grew up and started seeing how people like me and my family were hurting others. This goes far beyond mere opinion, and perhaps you ought to spend some time reasoning about why these things aren’t that important to you.

Edit to add a word.

Do you have any recommendations?

Use Affinity Publisher, Photo, and Designer instead. Looks like it’s USD $165 for a universal license at the moment. Very few of the more exclusive features Adobe provides are worth the cost of doing business with them. The only thing I missed at first is Photoshop’s timeline, but apps like Krita or Aseprite (if pixel art is your jam) have that covered.

Edit to add: one great feature of Affinity is that, if you have Publisher and at least one of the other apps, Publisher will unify the workflows of the others into the same screen. In other words, you can switch between Publisher, Designer, and Photo without minimizing or opening the other apps individually.

Art and design, regardless of medium, need not be gatekept by corporate goons to stuff greedy pockets.

Yeh, but Florida always looks bad