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# 16 22-06-2003 , 10:21 PM

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1.Nationality- Venezuelan
2.Which country are you in- Venezuela
3.What is your job- Design Student
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time- Working on advertising.
5.Biggest fear with regards to job- Don´t have one. If I don´t find one that suits me, I´ll just create it myself.

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# 17 22-06-2003 , 10:36 PM

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1) American
2) USA
3) Student, and other
4) Be my own boss, successfull.
5) Being worse at #3 and 4. Possibly being kicked out of 2 user added image

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# 18 22-06-2003 , 10:53 PM

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1. Nationality - American
2. Which country are you in - USA
3. What is your job - web designer/musician in NYC
4. Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time - Scuba diving in Tahiti (with a career that allows me to do so)
5. Biggest fear with regards to job - not finding something stable to provide for my wife and I (and future family/vacations)

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# 19 22-06-2003 , 11:01 PM

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1.Nationality- American
2.Which country are you in- USA
3.What is your job- appliance Technician
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time- Any job relatinng to computers
5. Biggest fear with regards to job- None (I am self employed with own buisness)

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# 20 22-06-2003 , 11:12 PM

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1.Nationality: Pissed - off - American
2.Which country are you in: USA (would LOVE to move to the UK)
3.What is your job- Web Designer - 3D Artist
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time- Workin full time for Kevin! (no joke user added image

<rant>
On a side note, before 9-11, I participated in a thread much like this one on another site, and at the time, I was making GREAT money, able to support myself and my girl, and the LAST place I EVER thought I would be at this time today, is where I am now.

That day screwed EVERYTHING up for me, and people like us, and now we are looked at like beggars when we ask for a job.

I had to take a $1o,ooo dollar pay CUT just to make ends meet,
and I'm treated like shit every day by people who don't even know what the hell it is that we do for them.

People want ILM quality graphics, and effects, at convenience store prices, and I hate to tell them, that it is just not gonna happen untill they spend the cash that they are affraid to spend.

Remember folks, there are LOTS of people that think we just push a button, and make the magic happen.

The next time some a$$hole tells you this, tell them to stay in the theater and actually count the names in the graphics and vfx credits for once.

5. Biggest fear with regards to job: Finding one that will let me pay my bills, and let me afford to take my girl out to see a cheap movie once in a while. That's all.

I'm not looking to get rich.

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One time last summer during my YEAR-long stint of unemployment, 2 months before I joined SM, a friend and I wen't out to the most busy freeway overpass in Minneapolis wearing sandwich-board signs that said:
Will design milti-BILLION-dollar corporate maketing packages for food.

We ended up on the news that night, and STILL, got no calls.

Right now our country is F*CKING SAD.

Mike, man, I am SOOOO fricken happy for you buddy, and I REALLY hope things stay working for ya.
<end rant>

Good luck all! Just keep modeling and animating your ass off EVERY fricken DAY, and don't get discouraged.

I can only get better....... right?

...sheesh..... I hope so....

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# 21 22-06-2003 , 11:15 PM

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man... I sure know how to bum everyone out don't I?

hehe... sorry all user added image

Just ignore me user added image

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# 22 22-06-2003 , 11:21 PM

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Rage buddy... I feel you fustration mate.... I'm little fustrated too at doing a lot of work for little pay or no pay at all....

Funny you should mention moving to the UK too, Hell Kev and I been toying wiht the idea of me moving over for a while now. I even have the wifes blessing. If you go we can really do some damage.. I see animation studio in the future.... =)

Just a thought=)

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# 23 22-06-2003 , 11:24 PM

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DUDE, that would fricken rock m8 user added image

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# 24 22-06-2003 , 11:25 PM

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sh*t Rage I never saw this side of you :argue:

I am scared:p

Anyway that is why I still do Appliance repair is it pays and is steady (but dont get any respect user added image

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# 25 22-06-2003 , 11:27 PM

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Re: Which country.......etc

Originally posted by slickrenderer

1.Nationality-
2.Which country are you in-
3.What is your job-
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time-
5. Biggest fear with regards to job-

Originally Posted by

1. American
2. China
3. Student
4. College
5. Not being able to support my self

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# 26 22-06-2003 , 11:32 PM

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Rage ya working with you and Kev would be sweet!!!!!!!

I think we can make a go of it.... you doing the effects and compositing me modeling, and animating (might need a good texture person).

I was talking to Kev the other day about a story I have that I want to try and sell as a series of short film once i develope it a bit more..

Have the plot rought out and the main charcters.

even have a name for the Studio "The gimmick house"

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination, knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

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# 27 22-06-2003 , 11:59 PM

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Well, I believe the whole dotcom fallout started before 9/11 so I wouldn't put the entire blame there. 9/11 didn't help, of course.

I can relate to how you feel though,....I actually live in NYC and when things were good, they were really good. I was able to go to asia twice in one year for several weeks at a time. Now? Work is patchy at best. At this point, I'd take the pay cut if I could just find a stable day gig with benefits...something that would allow me to come home and concentrate on my 3D skills or any other education I decide to go for. It's a scary feeling when you were on top at one point and now you're flailing along with no direction. Seems I get contract work for several months at a time, then end up unemployed the rest.

My .02 is that if you're working, even if the job sucks and the pay isn't what you're used to....continue to work and keep cranking out resumes for other gigs. At least you have a steady income which is more than alot of other folks, myself included, have.

"Terminat Bora Diem, Terminal Auctor opus."

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# 28 23-06-2003 , 12:04 AM

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Originally posted by slickrenderer

1.Nationality-
2.Which country are you in-
3.What is your job-
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time-
5. Biggest fear with regards to job-

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1.Nationality-american
2.Which country are you in-US
3.What is your job-Comic Artist
4.Where do you want to be in 2-5 years time- some sort of movie work!?!?!
5. Biggest fear with regards to job- not having one!

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I have experienced alot of what Rage has went through... for the last 3 years I was a web designer for an investment bank in NYCity... 911 came and I was in the middle of it. we were pretty darn close... and I lost a coworker that day. Things went down hill from that day forward and ultimately my position was eliminated.. fortuately I fell back on my previous ocupation... There are things about my country I dont like, but i am still proud to call myself an American. One of the things I love about this site is the fact that I can interact with such a diverse group of people.... and if you guys start an animation house.... count me in!!! (if I get better user added image

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# 29 23-06-2003 , 12:04 AM

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Rage bud, I feel your fustration too as I am fustrated with other things in my life.

Originally posted by Kurt
Funny you should mention moving to the UK too, Hell Kev and I been toying wiht the idea of me moving over for a while now. I even have the wifes blessing. If you go we can really do some damage.. I see animation studio in the future.... =)

Just a thought=)

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Take me with you (no kidding). I got next to no ties in here so it would be rather easy for me to move user added image

Btw, I was so close to start up my own little CG company. We had almost everything set up with a friend of mine. Then he just peed in his pants and forgot the idea after hesitating it for a year or so... So here I am, in square one, wondering what next... user added image