(are there still girls around here? Haven't seen Maya for a while)
Just to let you know that I'm almost fine and alive here a tiny sign from me.
Sure, Gary was right when he wrote that there are only 7, 8, 9 or 10 active members left, so count me in again and we are eleven :-)
The reason why I've been so silent: The banks killed me and so I have been forced to sign up for a nine-to-five-job as a CAD operator. Yes, you can laugh, it's ugly, but what the hell could I do except committing a crime? So I ended up with an ugly company manufacturing extremely ugly products. The management features a 'what was good yesterday must be good tomorrow as well' mentality, they don't even know how to spell 'open minded'. I don't have absolutely no chance to improve or modify or enhance at least one of their products, so everything is wasted: words, ideas, ambition.
The result: When I return home after a boring day I seldom switch on my machines.
But at least I could fix my car to be able to move around and acquire new biz. Unfortunately our economy is down the gutter, meaning there are almost no projects. Just a 'silver line' at the horizon.
Confessions of a designer with no market valueat this moment <sigh>.
Anyway, here we go with something I've developed: a pool cart. Well, it looks funny with the horns, but they are needed for a special purpose: to transport pool roof doors. You know these barrel type things the Germans use to cover their pools to prevent that children will fall into the pools and drown. You've guessed it: we have a law for this bullshit ;-}. We have a f...ing law for every fart on this globe.
That was the good news. The bad news is that no manufacturer of pool roofs is interested in this product, not even if I tell them they can drive their mother-in-law to the pool with it to drown her. Life is like a chicken ladder: full of shit.
Now I feel better. Much better. Because I know I've spent my time on a useless product but at the same time doing some training for my brain and fingers to prevent rust and aging < big grin >.
Just in case you know of a company in the US that's in need for a good industrial designer: drop me a note. I NEED A CHALLENGE or my brain will turn into a useless mass of cells.
Have fun and don't think I'll give up.
Will I return to coding? Nope, no way. I've missed the latest developments, don't know anything about php or mySQL, .net or any other new technology. And to be honest: I don't even care about it, because all the new and fancy coding tricks won't change the content or results at all.
Don't get me wrong, this place as well as the other forums are great, but the rest of the Internet is saturated. The hype is over, what I miss is really NEW content or developments. It's like years ago when Desk Top Publishing started to spread: it was only a shift to another profession and technology, but the content remained the same. And many craftsmen lost their jobs.
So actually this is no news at all, isn't it? The world keeps repeating itself, just a bit faster than in earlier times.
Thumbs up, go for it, and just in case you don't know what to do with your modem, ISDN or DSL:
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