Well, I keep saying I’m going to write something about why I haven’t written much here for a while. The basics are simple: nearly a year ago now, I found out that I was being let go from a job that I’d had for over ten years.
The reasons given were brutally financial in nature. The department I was with had split the design group into web, video and print sections, and the print section wasn’t profitable. There are reasons behind reasons of course: pixels are free, but paper costs money. Also, the print section had the people with the highest seniority (and therefore salaries). None of which changed the end result: those of us doing print work were on our way out.
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