Bye Bye Brad

Throwing in the designer's towel

So it was this time last week I had a long discussion with Brad on MSN (cos the Internet Brad more responsive than the Real Life Brad*) about what his plans are for his life etc. He'd been showing a total lack of interest over the last few months, which had culminated in more recent days with pretty poor punctuality (still hasn't been to work on time one day in the past 3 weeks - usually 10 to 15 mins late, once 45mins late).

Brad was apparently losing interest in being a graphic designer, despite developing some good skills and showing promising signs of being good designer. I guess this is a young person thing, and he'll possibly regret it when he matures.

For now though, Brad reckons he'll go back to TAFE next year and finish year 10, then study Computer Sciences (what the heck for I have no idea! Computers suck). But it's more than a little strange that he'd sacrifice his current career at this stage of the year and hang around doing jack all for 6 months until TAFE starts. A sensible person would plan it so they could finish up just before their studies began. But... oh well. I don't think this decision was based on his aspirations for the future and desire to study, but rather a decision he made cos he was sick of work and wanted to sleep in more.

Brad quickly decided to move back to the Gold Coast with his mate Luke.

So, after a year of training Brad, coaching him on life issues, encouraging him to mature and become truly independent, I'm left feeling rather disappointed. It's up to him now. I hope he proves me wrong, but I'm not sure he's going to make much of a go of things like he claims he will. Time will tell.

Enter Jaclyn
The day Brad called a meeting with Tim and I to announce his decision to resign, a lady named Jaclyn walked in the door to introduce herself to Tim and express her interest in any design work we might have going.

So... after a couple of meetings, Tim is impressed enough to be considering offering her a position.

She has a lot of industry experience, talent and so forth. I feel I could learn a heck of a lot off her, which will be nice.

Assuming she's interested in the position, I consider and like the idea of her and I specialising in our own areas and focusing on those. For example, she seems very clever with high-end design work, and I'm very keen to do more website stuff if I can find the time for it.

I'll keep an update on things in my blog...

MY NOTES
*Is it just me, or is there a whole new generation of youth whose identity exists only on the internet. You try to talk to these kids in real life and they're withdrawn and their vocubulary ceases to function when discussing anything serious. But get their fingers on a keyboard and they come time life. Kinda sad.