It was a long time ago. Working while studying isn’t a very common practice in my home country. I have heard how in western culture, young people work to support themselves since high school and pay for their own college. I was inspired and really wanted to work. And I did, during my time at Chulalongkorn University almost 10 years ago.
I didn’t want to be an engineer. I never wanted to. It’s just weird how I managed to get into it. Anyway. I wanted to design, I wanted to do arts. So I started doing free lance jobs and had been doing it for over 2 years. My work covers quite a lot of things, from architectural 3D presentation, graphic and website design, label and package design for small products and worked on some magazines. It was a fun time.
But alas… I spent all my time working free lance that I didn’t even care about my college and failed so many classes.
The experience was awesome, and the money wasn’t bad for a stupid little student I was at that time. But I slowly realized how all those things weren’t really worth it…. My friends started graduating and get themselves real jobs. And in only a year, they moved up and suddenly got ahead of me with their jobs, designing far greater things at greater scales than I ever had. I was the first among my friends to work, but ended up behind everyone else.
So anyway. Here are one of my first jobs, some labels and packages designing job. At first, he assigned me to only design the stickers. Onces I did the stickers, my client wanted the bottle. Then he wanted the package, then he wanted the foldable and displayable box, then he wanted a 3D presentation of the whole product, then I had to take the design to the factory and manage the manufacture.. After all was done, he paid me the p sticker price… “That’s the only price we talked about!” and it wasn’t even that much. /sigh. Talking about newbies.
