When I graduated I was actually holding a full time programming and a part time graphic design gig for about 3 months. (so.little.sleep!)
What I realized was, that for me to be happy I needed to work on things that could actually be 'finished'.
Graphic design is just so maddeningly subjective that I could endlessly push pixels around the screen and never actually reach my goal.
The same with front-end work / css for me. I just need to shift focus to the backend, or even write some unit tests now and then.
otherwise it never feels like I 'win' anything, and it just becomes tedious and depressing.
When I graduated I was actually holding a full time programming and a part time graphic design gig for about 3 months. (so.little.sleep!)
What I realized was, that for me to be happy I needed to work on things that could actually be 'finished'.
Graphic design is just so maddeningly subjective that I could endlessly push pixels around the screen and never actually reach my goal.
The same with front-end work / css for me. I just need to shift focus to the backend, or even write some unit tests now and then.
otherwise it never feels like I 'win' anything, and it just becomes tedious and depressing.