30fg Business Podcast For Designers

Thom Perry is a highly accomplished photographer based in Perth who works in the stressful, unexpectedly emotional, often contrived and generally strange world of advertising and commercial image making . Thom is one of those guys is at that time in his career which many of us reach somewhere between 5-10years into our craft when we know more or less technically what we’re doing and are now searching deeper and wider to find what really separates from our peers both in our own eyes, and the eyes of others. Today we’re talking about something that I think we all do from time to time and that is comparing ourselves to others in our field, or even to people in other fields. It’s a pretty normal thing to do when you’re working for yourself, you need some kind of measure to gauge where you’re at, both for yourself and for your dealings with your clients.   If you’ve ever caught yourself doing this, you’ll know that it can leave you with a mixed array of feelings from jealousy, impatience, even desperation the