I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a degree in textiles and was a basket weaver. I won the medal for my program. I was a practicing basket weaver making hats and baskets out of mostly cedar bark. I found quite quickly that the job was actually sales and got sick of craft shows. I got a job in an upholstery shop making canvas enclosures on boats. I benifited from having a salesman take on the bullshit work and left me to hone my craft. My boss was an asshole and eventually I seized the means of production and he went bankrupt. I’ve run my own shop for the last 6 years and am sending my daughter to OCAD for printmaking. It doesn’t matter what she does in school, she will learn the skills necessary to tackle any issue with confidence. She may not be a printmaker for the rest of her life but the skills she develops will ensure she can adapt to any struggle presented to her.
Yeah people often shit on the arts without realizing many jobs are art. Movies, movie posters, industrial design, signs, and so on.
The stuff I do for work is mainly engineering type work and includes CAD but mainly in regard to processes and automation.
But I have come to realize that going to an arts highschool helped a lot because art is all about steps, stages, timing, planning (whether that is prepping a multiframe silkscreen print, or the mixing of clay through to firing and glazing stages of pottery.)
It was a weird realization that part of why my English degree got dunked on is that in the real world, no one seems to actually read anything. That includes contracts, technical documents, FAQs, reports, literally the text adjacent to sign in fields, etc.
(Sort of joking, but the amount of times I’ve heard “Wow, how did you know that/figure that out?” and had to respond “It was in the document you sent me” over the course my career is too damn high).
I understand totally. Another aspect of my job is training, documentation, and support.
Often we have people stuck on an issue and ask for help, many times the software is asking for a selection to proceed. The customer says the software is broken. A screen share shows the highlighted prompt “select an object on screen to continue”. And they can’t proceed because they didn’t read the prompt, and haven’t selected anything.
Same with steps, they say the get different results than the training document.
It’s " did you do step 4?" With a response of “uhh no”. OK then, if you don’t do step 4 then all the steps after will give a different outcomes.
I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a degree in textiles and was a basket weaver. I won the medal for my program. I was a practicing basket weaver making hats and baskets out of mostly cedar bark. I found quite quickly that the job was actually sales and got sick of craft shows. I got a job in an upholstery shop making canvas enclosures on boats. I benifited from having a salesman take on the bullshit work and left me to hone my craft. My boss was an asshole and eventually I seized the means of production and he went bankrupt. I’ve run my own shop for the last 6 years and am sending my daughter to OCAD for printmaking. It doesn’t matter what she does in school, she will learn the skills necessary to tackle any issue with confidence. She may not be a printmaker for the rest of her life but the skills she develops will ensure she can adapt to any struggle presented to her.
So get fucked you giant sack of shit. Maybe if you hired a fucking designer your bullshit sticker factory could make stickers that don’t wash off and that you can see in the fucking dark.
Yeah people often shit on the arts without realizing many jobs are art. Movies, movie posters, industrial design, signs, and so on.
The stuff I do for work is mainly engineering type work and includes CAD but mainly in regard to processes and automation.
But I have come to realize that going to an arts highschool helped a lot because art is all about steps, stages, timing, planning (whether that is prepping a multiframe silkscreen print, or the mixing of clay through to firing and glazing stages of pottery.)
It was a weird realization that part of why my English degree got dunked on is that in the real world, no one seems to actually read anything. That includes contracts, technical documents, FAQs, reports, literally the text adjacent to sign in fields, etc.
(Sort of joking, but the amount of times I’ve heard “Wow, how did you know that/figure that out?” and had to respond “It was in the document you sent me” over the course my career is too damn high).
I understand totally. Another aspect of my job is training, documentation, and support. Often we have people stuck on an issue and ask for help, many times the software is asking for a selection to proceed. The customer says the software is broken. A screen share shows the highlighted prompt “select an object on screen to continue”. And they can’t proceed because they didn’t read the prompt, and haven’t selected anything.
Same with steps, they say the get different results than the training document. It’s " did you do step 4?" With a response of “uhh no”. OK then, if you don’t do step 4 then all the steps after will give a different outcomes.