u/Equivalent_Grab1900

that’s it that’s the post.

i have found myself missing her and dreaming about her lately, and it’s been almost a year since we broke up. it’s almost like my brain size actually shrinks and is incapable of realizing anything outside of the immediate confinement of simple shit like missing her without thinking about the way she treated her cat or me or anything that upset me about her. that shit doesn’t exist to me rn and it feels like im genuinely dumber and less capable of nuance

SOS lmao

this luteal phase i have noticed that im less emotional, but more…dead inside. i feel so depressed and like i get stuck scrolling on my phone and laying in bed. i want to make comics, i want to draw and find joy in it, i want to disconnect from the world. but im so so so depressed. i hate work, i hate spending money, im just really not in the mood for anything and it sucks. im hoping it passes and that its just luteal, but i feel so unproductive and like im losing who i used to be. any creatives have any tips for finding your spark again after an extremely discouraging cycle/capitalism robbing you of any joy?
i feel like a shell of myself and although i prefer this over the horrible SI i used to experience, i still feel so empty. i have no ideas and the harder i try to think of any the less there are that appear. ugh.

hello, i only have a few years of experience working in the graphic design industry and wanted to get a second opinion on if i should keep this new job i got or bail. for context, this gig is only part time as i have a full time job and was hoping to pick up some more money on the side. this company is a brewing business and i have only been in contact with my direct manager. from the beginning, i have been using adobe illustrator and sending my files in both .ai format and .pdf so that they can preview it. i’m under the impression that things are good, they say they love the menus, etc etc. three weeks pass and i am invited to a meeting with the ceo, who i have never met. i show up and he not only blows me off completely and has to be introduced through my manager like a 5 year old, but he is flippant and blunt from the start while discussing other management issues. he then proceeds to tell me that my menus are “useless” to him because he expects full access to the design and have control over editing it at any given moment. he does not have adobe. he then asks me to make it in something like MICROSOFT PUBLISHER. he seems to want full control, the fonts i chose in the illustrator file (which are not available outside of adobe, i checked) and be able to edit it daily. he also was snarky about my choice of laptop, and seemed annoyed that it wasn’t an apple product because “those are way better for design.” they did not inform me that the menus needed to be editable until a few days ago. after completing every single one of the menus they had asked me to. is this normal? is there a fundamental misunderstanding here?

i’ve decided to work in canva, which limits a lot for me stylistically, but is a good accessible way to allow him to edit i guess.

TIA