Updating portfolio - Layoffs etc.

2 years ago I was looking for a new job after leaving Fossil. I found coroflot.com thru a search and posted my work up there. It's a cool site because it offers exposure, community, and puts my work in a forum unrelated to straight up fashion.

I've been updating my profile in the past few weeks since our company had its second round of layoffs. If you haven't experienced layoffs yet - they are beyond stressful.

The day is just like any other - but there's a weird tension toward the end of it. You notice your colleagues to the left and one over to the right sending mails and surfing job sites that they wouldn't otherwise be surfing. People whisper to you in passing, don't worry - you are safe. Which in itself is frightening to think that others are not "safe".

Then the smoke breaks.. the chatter - the hush, hush. Then the announcement from the freshly released - a perforated explanation - the gratuitous "everything will be alright with the company, don't worry."

Then the post work unhappy hour to bury the released - the explanations and passing of contact info - the passing of networking info - the mild cursing of the parent company - the shock....

Ha! And what's worse, the next day - the scramble to rehire the retired! Yes, a layoff and a retrieval of the laid off.

Ok, so that's a layoff. The second round came even after the CEO flew down to clarify the direction of the company and reiterate that there wouldn't be any further layoffs... yet, a couple of months later there were 2 more. Conjecture has it it was personal, that there wasn't enough to justify their existence.. yet, the fact is the people remaining have too much to do now they can't achieve their original goals.

So, my portfolio - it's being updated. Who knows what will come next - but only a sucker would sit around unprepared.

Same theme, different decade

When great minds think alike - and they do.
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He's a 2005 grad.......

Post UNT

If you were at UNT during the mid to early 90's we probably met at some point or had a class - or had breakfast at Jim's Diner, beer at Cool Beans, coffee at Karma or danced together at Bedo's.

My degree was in painting and drawing. If you were like me you - a typical artist - you had no clue what to do after graduation... I ended up in Cincinnati in 95 for 6 months and got into graphic design up there and worked as an editor of an art's magazine interviewing local artists and writing about the scene. It was a cool gig, and I mean COOL. Waaay too cold so I came back post haste!

I worked in the graphics field for a few years and then went to work for Fossil, Inc in Richardson. That led me to product design and the rest has been a lot of fun since. Lots of overseas travel for work to Asia and India and some travel to Europe. I also went to Germany for a year and a half in 2000/ 2001 just to experience living overseas before I was so entrenched in a career I couldn't afford to leave it.

As far as painting goes - I've kept up with it "some". I have a box of very small works, hundreds of them. I still paint on the fly and try to keep it in my system. My job has tapped some of my creative/painting juices.. and the magic of being an artist in my 20's has waned somewhat. It is what it is.. and "whatever is, is right" so I've heard.

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