I have been a web designer for a very long time, since that day I typed 'http://www.cnn.com' after I saw the url on tv whilst doing vocational work at Eskom Simmerpan. I loved the medium, still do, but I have lost the passion for it.
I spent like 9 years or so in this medium creating artworks for public consumption, manupilating the pixel to create illusions of existance.
It was an interesting journey, as I type this, on my left is a 'design' I am working on for a client, that needs the site running by tuesday morning, it can be done, it will be done, it will be my last commercial design work; everything else from now on will be design for the passion.
I no longer find it interesting to spend 4 weeks trying to map out what clients want in thier own heads to visuall mediums that their customers can understand what the client is all about. I can't do it; Sure the money is good; but it is a waste of my time.
A friend of mine spoke of me, lacking the ability to seperate what I am and what I have to do. In order to run a profitable business one has to be able to do just that. Satisfy the client, make the client happy. I can't do that, design is personal, it is an expression of all I know, think, feel, hate, love. So, it is best not to get personal with clients, and thus not design for clients.
I rest.