To switch it around
In actual fact i would say the mobile phone did anything BUT wreck my life. I used to work for a company which made content, ringtones, animations etc etc etc and this is the (possibly not very brief) tale of what happened

Unemployed for YEARS (10 i think) and no hope of proper work. I was a stoner crusty type a bit too obsessed by the concept of never working a day in my life if i could and with very few quals i was headed to poverty and an early hairy death. I did not own a dog though!

So! i thought it was time to pull my finger out of my arse (not literally! eeuwww!) and had ben doing a bit of freelance work here and there and thought i'd go for a new job as illustrator in a local mobile phone content place. Which i didn't get :( BUT! the guy giving the interview said his mate might have work and gave him a ring and set me up an interview (Thanks Issac!) and of i toddle. Met the guy, got on well, began attempting this new pixel art malarky (12x24 B&W! animations in 4 frames. try it! not as easy as you'd think) got hired as a freelancer doing that and also producing art work for VZones, an early 2D Virtual World (COOOL!).

Now i'll skip the next few years but needless to say i ended up with a well paid job working in a international R&D creative lab working for the same guy making the FUTURE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY! Which was just about my dream job :)

When i look back its sometimes hard to remember starving for a week while waiting for my dole to come through applying to every crappy job I could and being turned away. Honesty, i thought i was never going to get out of that situation.

The guy who gave me that first illustration job was a Mr G Baines and although the firm exploded near the end i have never thanked him enough. Thanks Baines! You gave me a decent life and taught me a lot.

and all because of these new fangled mobile phones :)

on another note i'm now working in education and virtual worlds and looking to get back into industry to have some fun and creative input again. If anyone has any work for a concept artist and creative type.... ;)
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 11:04, Reply)