Criticism and your profession

[Freed Roger]

In cards history by mspaint,I now feel bad for all the times we demanded Kird to "mspaint colby rasmus!..now do TLR or more green Miles...Adam Kennedy!"

[wart57]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

[Popeye_Card]

Engineers don't get criticized until something breaks or blows up. Then everyone is an expert on how it should have been designed, constructed, and maintained. Oh yeah? What about the eleventy trillion other things engineers designed that didn't blow up today?

[lukethedrifter]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

you have to pick them up and smell them, give them a little squeeze. hope that helps, wart.

[wart57]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

you have to pick them up and smell them, give them a little squeeze. hope that helps, wart.

Are we talking about wives or fruit?

[Jocephus]

i always liked the nurses response in an office episode

Pam: I can't tell if she's getting anything. It just doesn't really feel right.
Nurse: Well, maybe we should take a break for a little while. I can take her to the nursery and then bring her back and try again a little bit later.
Pam: Even if she's not getting anything?
Nurse: Yeah, she'll be fine. I can always give her a bottle since we're in the nursery.
Pam: No. I read in the book about nipple confusion.
Nurse: Oh, good. You know everything.

[StL Dan]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

you have to pick them up and smell them, give them a little squeeze. hope that helps, wart.

Are we talking about wives or fruit?

Your wife's fruit. (ducking)

[Fat Strat]

[expletive], I've been published for it multiple times, for crying out loud. If you don't get paid to do what I do, and you want to nitpick my [expletive] design that I'm doing for you (for free as a favor), you can pretty much go [expletive] yourself.

In my experience it's usually the people that you do free design work for that are the most picky and whiny. I pretty much won't do it any more or I charge them something small like $50 and tell them that it will escalate up from there depending on many changes they want to make.

I still do some free-lance design work for several non-profits. At one, I do all the design work for one of their branches -- everything they put out comes through me or the person I work with there (whom I've worked with for a decade). So, it's real easy to work with because we've developed a unified system, color scheme, logos, etc. The other branches all do their own design work... usually Publisher stuff put together by an intern or the person in the office who seems the most "artsy". Every now and then those other branches will come to me for a larger media project and want me to work with their person and their crappy designs. Because it's "their work" they get all defensive about it and mortally insulted when I suggest changing anything.

[wart57]

Seriously, you wouldn't believe the verbal abuse that we take. Anyway, that's not quite the same as what jl is referring to. I did get to listen to my wife tell me about where our smoke detectors should go.

Hahaa

I was a produce clerk for 6 years, an assistant produce manager for a year, and a produce department manager for 2 years, I have been a produce buyer for a major grocery chain for 12 years, yet my wife still tells me how to pick out the best fruit at the store.

you have to pick them up and smell them, give them a little squeeze. hope that helps, wart.

Are we talking about wives or fruit?

Your wife's fruit. (ducking)

When I squeeze my wife's fruit, I am the one ducking!

[lukethedrifter]

One of you design guys care to design a logo for a cap for me? Free of course. Critiquing included.