Comments on: Career Choices for Designers http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/ Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: javier http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6438 javier Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6438 Great story Christina, thanks for sharing your lessons.

The design looks great too :)

]]> By: petervandijck http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6439 petervandijck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6439 Great article – I feel the same. And yes, that’s one rocking design.

]]> By: kevburnsjr http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6440 kevburnsjr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6440 As a coder recently turned manager with a budding interest in IA, this intrigues me greatly.
Thank you for the wisdom :)

]]> By: danny http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6441 danny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6441 “Suddenly you are offered—almost required to—do something that is 360 degrees away form what you have mastered.”

Small detail: turn 360 degrees and you are back where you started from, what you mean is 180 degrees.

Great article though!

]]> By: freqnc http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6442 freqnc Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6442 “Each forked path will teach you something, and as you choose one, the others are not closed off. Rather if you change paths again, you’ll do so with a new body of knowledge and insight.”

Hi Christina,

Thank you for the great article, and sharing it with us. It’s a nicely timed one for me :)
Pssst: I love the new B&A design!!

Fredy :)

]]> By: dshen http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6443 dshen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6443 Great article Christina! I too have made my way down all these forks and have learned to embrace change as a fact of life, and as a necessity to keep learning and growing, and preventing stagnation. I think being fearless is the biggest hurdle to conquer – change is uncomfortable and it’s too easy to stay safe, even when the place you think is safe actually is harmful to you. I truly believe fearlessness is the first quality to acquire – supress your fears, have confidence that you will succeed, and then go for it knowing that the new fork you walk down will be the better one…or you’ll just find another one!

]]> By: madonnalisa http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6444 madonnalisa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6444 Great article Christina. It’s really neat when you can bless your readers with some insights in how your experiences have transformed you inside and out! Looking forward to all the new you 2.0 produces.

]]> By: baumr1 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6445 baumr1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6445 Hey Christina, this is a great article. We should all be thinking of these issues in our career planning. Why not try out a new path? I think your perspective on this will prove prescient.

]]> By: alexp1 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6446 alexp1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6446 Hey Christina, great article and awesome website.

I’ve recently turned from pouring cement on construction sites to programming and developing systems for a local up-and-coming web design firm. Talk about 90 degree turns… What prompted the change? It was a change in attitude. I was unhappy doing what I was doing, and decided I was going to visualise a job in front of a computer. So strong was my will that the universe folded in on itself and created the job for me (or so Intention Manifestation pundits would have me believe).

Anyway nice article and very relevant.

]]> By: donaldphussey http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6447 donaldphussey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/career-choices-for-designers/#comment-6447 Christina, tremendous article. Thanks for your sharing your experience and advice.

This is one of the better articles I’ve seen on career change — related to IA or not.

DPH

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