I’m working on a couple of personal projects right now and not enjoying myself at all. The particular tasks I’m working on are way too similar to what I do for a living: image creation and modification, proofreading, and page layout. I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that my enthusiasm isn’t at a fever pitch if I’ve been doing the same things all day and then more of the same all night.
It’s self-inflicted, so I suppose I should not complain. The reason I do this type of project is that I feel it’s the only real way I can contribute to most of the organizations I’ve belonged to. There aren’t very many clubs and organizations that don’t need flyers, programs, advertisements and various other printed pieces to keep things (whatever those things may be) in motion, and for the sake of effective communication and a polished image, the job really shouldn’t be left to someone with good intent but no communication or computer skills.
On the one hand, I’m happy I can help “my” groups by producing printed pieces with all of the words spelled correctly, and at least somewhat professional-looking (and by that I mean at least they are totally devoid of Comic Sans and cheap-ass clip art). On the other hand, I am so freaking sick of InDesign and Photoshop and especially stupid Microsoft Word which everyone insists on using and whose most recent version simply served to lower my productivity to levels that cannot be detected by the unaided human eye, that I just want to walk away from volunteering for anything even remotely related to document production ever again.
I’m sure I’ll get over it in a day or two, but for now, thank you for listening to my rant.
(NaBloPoMo | August ’09: 25 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 213 of 274)
Indigo says
Lol! You’re welcome and for a rant there wasn’t even one exclamation point. 😉
:mingling: and ICLW too
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kathi says
It really was a bit over-civilized for a rant, wasn’t it? I’ll have to work harder on that in the future 🙂