Read this before you quit your design career

A fair warning from someone that ‘quit’ twice

Samsung’s on Unsplash. Cool.

When I wrote All my friends are quitting design, it was quite obvious I was near my limit with the BS career that is becoming of UX / Product design.

I can still find work, it’s not that I’m rage-quitting because of unemployment.

Even if I didn’t get offers last quarter, I was literally employed at a pretty good gig, and oh, look at that, I just got an offer and a few new interviews. Still a crap market though.

Anyway, I am quitting (yet again). Perhaps temporarily, but I really just made this decision because:

1. I can afford to do so.
2. I wanted to do something for myself.
3. I have been planning this for a good few years.

I didn’t just wake up and decide to be crazy one day and quit my job for no good reason.

I made a plan, worked towards it, and when it manifested the results I wanted, it was only then that I slipped my resignation letter to my manager saying “Sorry, I have somewhere else to be”.

A keen observer of the industry

People that followed me and read my writing know I am just a very keen observer of the design industry who is courageously vocal about my observations and opinions about the ongoings.

Not everyone agrees with what I have to say or how I do my career, but I could care less because this space is really just about me and how I deal with things.

The whole point about writing my journey is to just share, to tell people they are not alone, to tell others that alternatives exist.

So thank you, loyal readers, and let’s get to it.

What it means to quit

I think quitting always has a pretty bad significance tied to it, where the general public’s view on quitters are usually negative. It’s a whole perception where the quitter is usually the loser that didn’t manage to find triumph, so they had to leave and stop trying.

“Never give up!” notions floods our…