Comments on Career Choices for Designers

Don Hussey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:25:01 GMT

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

Alexander Parker — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:24:39 GMT

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.

Chris Baum — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:29:15 GMT

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.

Madonnalisa G. Chan — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:53 GMT

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.

Julia Debari — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:52 GMT

Excellent article! It’s nice to hear that the 2.0 maximum can be applied to careers as well as technology. I’ve always been a bit of a dilettante learner myself and I remember arguing with a professor in college about career paths being described as you have said. He was very adament that in this industry you can only be a specialist. It’s nice not be the only one with these thoughts. :)

P.S. I love the new B&A design and functionality.

David Shen — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:07:29 GMT

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!

Fredy D. Ore — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:52 GMT

“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 :)

danny calders — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:52 GMT

“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!

Kev Burns — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:52 GMT

As a coder recently turned manager with a budding interest in IA, this intrigues me greatly.
Thank you for the wisdom :)

Peter Peter — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:51:23 GMT

Great article – I feel the same. And yes, that’s one rocking design.

Javier Velasco — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:00:10 GMT

Great story Christina, thanks for sharing your lessons.

The design looks great too :)