Monday, February 28, 2011

The urge of design is calling me, but the money of corporate world is too!




So one of my pieces is supposed to be featured in the March/April issue of LA Confidential Magazine. Here we go again, the press wagon comes out and gets me all amped about furniture design and interior design and I want to just drop everything and run back to it. But then there's that damn inconsistent paycheck! Yeah, I'm back in the wacky world of advertising and it's interesting, but it's methodical. It's left-brained and it's just not design! I mean, it's about designing ads, but I don't even get to do that - I'm a project manager which is cool, but I need to let the creative juices out again.

We had a pipe leak a month ago in the family room which sucked, but it allowed me to use my design skills to make lemonade out of lemons. I actually was able to paint the wall we had to remove and rebuild, install a new tiger wood floor in place of water-soaked carpet and make a few upgrades. Check it out. What should I be doing? Design or business? Or both?! Oh, the struggles...