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How do you justify getting paid for what you do?
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Sometimes I actually find it difficult to justify getting paid for what
I do. I really enjoy it far too much, and when I'm having fun putting a
picture together it seems ridiculous that someone is actually paying for
me to do it. From a wider perspective though, I think designers and
illustrators are as worthy of getting paid as anyone else in the art and
media industry.
The world would be a much greyer place without us, and I think it's
simply for this reason that we are needed. Adding a bit of colour and
shine to things may seem like a bit of a luxury, but I think if you took
it away it would produce a vacuum of creativity that would affect
everybody on some level. From a more personal point of view, the emails
and comments I get back about people enjoying my work is enough. If
people do that then it definitely has value.
Nik Ainley (more answers by this person)
Freelance Designer
Nik Ainley
http://www.shinybinary.com