Position available only if you ...

Position available only if you ....

If you are what I ask?

Since winding up iImagination in June of this year, I have been seeking to gain employment within the Graphic Design industry here in Brisbane where I now reside. After numerous applications outlining my wide range and exhaustive experience, eloquently presented, probed to be error free, with some of my best work attached as samples, you would think I would have offers being thrown at me.

You only have to look at my record. 5 years, yes 5 years in an advertising company from 1995 to 2000. The only reason I left was because the business was taken over. I've held positions of Graphic Designer all the way up to Art Director (2007), and yet my applications, one by one, are being knocked back.

I'm more than efficient with the Adobe Suite of software, Internet software, sound editing and film editing software, as well as the despised Microsoft Office software. I've had experience being the lowly indian, and the responsible chief. And yet, I still am unable to gain employment within my chosen field of expertise.

Is it because I'm now 51 years young? What, a 51 year old can't have fresh ideas? Bollocks!

Is it because my reproductive organs are on the outside and not the inside? Well I'm not about to change that! Why mess with perfection!

Honestly. You are not going to find a person capable of doing some jobs unless you look to someone with the experience, and lets face it, experience comes with a drawback, it takes years to earn it.

To be fair dinkum, What do they want? I am more than qualified to fill a position from graphic designer to art director. All I ask is to be paid according to the position I am filling, not as a reflection of my experience or age.

However I think most of these so called boutique art studios are looking for a breed of person that just doesn't exist.

Good luck with that. Meanwhile expect to see my application in your email box!