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1. Where do you currently work?
I work as a contract artist, designing ads for print in the Houston Chronicle. (Which is a nice way of saying I'm a glorified type setter.) Our offices are on the top floor of the Chronicle building, where they actually print the paper. To get down to the lunch room you have to play Frogger between the huge printing presses, dodging gigantic rolls of raw paper on automated tracks in the floor, with finished copies of the printed paper moving on zip lines above your head.
2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
In high school I worked summers for RectorSeal (trust me, I've heard all the jokes) hot gluing sample sized tubes of industrial solvent to postcards, and collating catalogs. Then I was a stay at home mom for 6 years. I've worked part time as a receptionist, file clerk, did retail the Christmas season at the Warner Bros. Studio Store in the mall, waitress (the lunch rush at Pizza Hut's buffet. ewwww) and did pizza delivery for Papa Johns (which killed my driving record for YEARS.) While in college, I did design work for a coupon mailer company, updated catalogs for one place that made those little cameras inside cop cars, and produced the posters and fliers that got hung around campus for my college.
3. What do you like best about your job?
When I've taken what little information the rep's provided, put it together into something I like, and people actually stop to tell me, "Hey, that looks good." Makes my ego happy.
4. What do you like least about your job?
When there's not a damn thing that'll make what I'm given look good. Legals are like that. We have a style sheet we have to use, and they all look the same and they all look like crap, but we can't deviate from the style.
Also, when I -know- I could do something good but my brain freezes. (This usually happens around midnight.)
5. What is your dream job?
To paint murals for a living, like the backdrops for the theater.
I work as a contract artist, designing ads for print in the Houston Chronicle. (Which is a nice way of saying I'm a glorified type setter.) Our offices are on the top floor of the Chronicle building, where they actually print the paper. To get down to the lunch room you have to play Frogger between the huge printing presses, dodging gigantic rolls of raw paper on automated tracks in the floor, with finished copies of the printed paper moving on zip lines above your head.
2. How many other jobs have you had and where?
In high school I worked summers for RectorSeal (trust me, I've heard all the jokes) hot gluing sample sized tubes of industrial solvent to postcards, and collating catalogs. Then I was a stay at home mom for 6 years. I've worked part time as a receptionist, file clerk, did retail the Christmas season at the Warner Bros. Studio Store in the mall, waitress (the lunch rush at Pizza Hut's buffet. ewwww) and did pizza delivery for Papa Johns (which killed my driving record for YEARS.) While in college, I did design work for a coupon mailer company, updated catalogs for one place that made those little cameras inside cop cars, and produced the posters and fliers that got hung around campus for my college.
3. What do you like best about your job?
When I've taken what little information the rep's provided, put it together into something I like, and people actually stop to tell me, "Hey, that looks good." Makes my ego happy.
4. What do you like least about your job?
When there's not a damn thing that'll make what I'm given look good. Legals are like that. We have a style sheet we have to use, and they all look the same and they all look like crap, but we can't deviate from the style.
Also, when I -know- I could do something good but my brain freezes. (This usually happens around midnight.)
5. What is your dream job?
To paint murals for a living, like the backdrops for the theater.
