tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post918611390094811714..comments2023-07-17T10:43:07.740+01:00Comments on Content Flavoured Trousers: Being FreelanceJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04556239287871303487noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post-62903692696043253882010-01-10T22:15:46.032+00:002010-01-10T22:15:46.032+00:00Thanks Miss Babs.
You managed to talk me down the...Thanks Miss Babs.<br /><br />You managed to talk me down there. Guess the old self-employment rollercoaster made me feel a bit sick for a moment. <br /><br />As for Calvino, I always preferred If On A Winter's Night A Traveller... Now that's the kind of writing that keeps one going...Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04556239287871303487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post-1751353009395645612010-01-10T01:58:24.975+00:002010-01-10T01:58:24.975+00:00John, seriously, now. Never get your head stuck up...John, seriously, now. Never get your head stuck up your arse. It's a fucker to get out.<br /><br />As the business rumbles on (or perhaps not, if you happen to live in Didsbury and can't make it into work because: the bins haven't been emptied; you don't drive a 4x4; you couldn't get any bread because all the pensioners have bought it up from the local store and/or you are 'working from home') it rumbles on. Belligerently, and with a never ending sense of purpose.<br /><br />Thankfully, I've spent more of my career being self-employed than employed. And, as a result no agency will ever employ me again. But I keep going. <br /><br />During the dark times it's hard to keep going (no work, chasing money, shit jobs, chasing money, chasing money and chasing money and no work) but there's always been something there that has kept me going. What it has been that has kept me going I have absolutely no idea so I can't give you any advice.<br /><br />I found my lad sat by the fire tonight, by the way, with Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities". It makes a change from "Medal of Honor" - so, there's hope yet.<br /><br />BabsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post-3934007743155051042010-01-08T23:05:42.227+00:002010-01-08T23:05:42.227+00:00Soz Babs,
Just realised I haven't actually re...Soz Babs,<br /><br />Just realised I haven't actually replied to your comment directly - my head's up my arsehole today.<br /><br />For what it's worth, I know some very intelligent designers, and some fucking thick writers. Business is business though and the industry rumbles on... like a happy fart smothered under a quilt.<br /><br />Who are we kicking the shit out first then btw? Can we do it in the morning though? I've just come back from the pub.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04556239287871303487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post-69827159089139135742010-01-08T14:18:17.195+00:002010-01-08T14:18:17.195+00:00Hello Barbara.
Problem is, all the people you'...Hello Barbara.<br /><br />Problem is, all the people you'd want to be spanked by - the agencies you'd like to work for - have either got their hands full, or have lorries full of pert young bodies coming in from Russia (or college) every day. Who'd want a smelly old whore like me? (other than a loony pervert, of course). <br /><br />I started this blog as a kind of creative gymnasium to keep me in shape. I wanted it to be creative, and entertaining and the total opposite of Scamp et al's navel gazing, arse-licking gangbangs. I also wanted it to be free and spontaneous in the way a blog should be. But for all the reasons above, I currently seem to spend more time on my blog than I do on my work. And in my quieter, more reflective and adult moments, that makes me very sad indeed.<br /><br />I'm in a rut Barbara. A big shitty rut where I'm (at best) entirely surplus to requirement. Just make sure you tell your Dante-reading young un NEVER to be a copywriter.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04556239287871303487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7816228034600280435.post-33603824753824434662010-01-08T02:05:26.336+00:002010-01-08T02:05:26.336+00:00Hang on in there, Dave. Freelance isdefinitely the...Hang on in there, Dave. Freelance is<i>definitely</i> the way forward. Join me, now, as I imagine kicking the shite out of all the designers I've ever worked with (except Ian, Inness and what'shis name, who trained under me, no fuck 'em too, they're just designers) and then kicking some more shite out of them. What this business misses is not writers but people with some fucking intelligence. And, writers. And there are few too many of them (writers, people with intelligence and designers who think just not using there arses). I'm right there with you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com