Graphic Designer-Working & Searching

Here I am sitting at my laptop trying to write my first blog. I am not a writer but it was suggested by a friend to start blogging. So here I am late at night getting underway.

My blog title, Graphic Designer-Working & Searching comes from my present state of being. I am graphic designer doing freelance work and searching for a full-time position with a company or agency.

After a 24 year career with a creative department for a large company, the department was closed in January 2009. It was quite unusual since we were a liquidating center and making our numbers thus very little overhead paid out by the company. But what can you say except it was a business decision and move on.

For me, it could have been exactly what I needed, working such impossible hours having little time for myself. This chance to freelance and channel my time so it works for me, seems to be an opportunity which needs exploring. 

Could full-time freelance be my future? Do I need to work for the big company like I always thought, to be under the corporate umbrella with the benefits? Can this work? There are still many years before those retirement days are to arrive.

So working and searching is the present plan!