How true is this^? Is Graphic Designing more frustrating than other IT jobs?

@Vikas No. In IT the real work and panic only begins after the deadline has passed... :D

@PieBie but I see such posts mostly for Graphic Design.

@Vikas In any profession, if the work process is so painful and traumatic, change the profession. The scheme you show in your image is the creative process of someone who leads the profession with a lot of frustration, and there are many like that. If you really love graphic design, the creative process is enjoy, enjoy and enjoy.

There may be more relevant steps than others but the general balance is to enjoy each one of them. In my particular case, the most distressing step is the emptiness I feel after completing a job. By the way, the internet is full of cr*p, it's not too convenient to pay too much attention to everything that is published on social networks.

@Danielillo In my case, I like the process of design. At times I feel frustrated a bit when something doesn't work but I guess that's normal. But sometimes I get in painful situation when the boss wants new and new creative ideas in less time with almost zero support and appreciation along with that. And sometimes when they put their own stress into me. 1) Is this a different case than the image I shared above? 2) And is it the painful thing you were talking about (I guess, NO) ?

@Vikas your questions are so essential and so hard to answer. Any job which requires as much training and dedication as graphic design has the same dilemma. If you love what you do and invest a lot of yourself into it you get a more interesting and rewarding work life but you also get worse down periods when things aren't going your way. A bit like relationships (which are also often made fun of in memes). It might be easier to live without love and friendship, but also boring and lonely.

About your specific situation. I've felt that way many times. The design process itself is enjoyable, but there can be things surrounding it which can be almost unbearable: bad work climate, annoying clients, financial problems, bad communication, unforeseen problems. Maybe you would fit better in another company. Maybe you would work better with other product types or other clients. Or maybe it's just how life is - not perfect. Doesn't necessarily mean that it's the wrong profession for you.

@Vikas * I get in painful situation when the boss wants new and new creative ideas in less time with almost zero support and appreciation along with that. And sometimes when they put their own stress into me* :I think this has nothing to do with being a graphic designer.

@Danielillo Yeah, that's a shorter way of putting it. :-)

@Wolff @Danielillo I got your points. However, I asked this mainly because I've seen such stuff many times on social media which are mostly about Graphic Design. Didn't notice much about other professions. That makes me somewhat feel that this field requires more pain and frustration even when the you like it. I just needed your views to verify it. I think it would be an important piece of information at least for me :)

@Vikas Could be because graphic designers are actually capable of making these kinds of posts. People in other professions wouldn't know how to create such imagery, :-)

@Wolff yeah :D

@Vikas Similarly, I bet there are more songs saying "sitting here with my guitar and all my feelings" than "trying to make sense of this design manual and the deadline is tomorrow". :-)

@Vikas If you think that a post in a social media can define what a profession is, the problem is neither the social media nor the post ;-)

If the balance you make in the development of your profession weighs much more the frustration than pleasure, change the profession. The world does not end in graphic design, even within design there is a wide variety of tasks to do and not all of them require creativity 100% of time.

@Vikas I see similar conversations about writing, illustration, game design, etc. Any profession that commodifies an activity which we identify as creative, falls prey to our pop culture beliefs about creativity --both internalized by the creators and from outside via clients/employers/purchasers-- which is very understandably frustrating.

Obviously creative professions (all professions are creative, but only some are recognized as such) are treated as simultaneously so glamorous and fulfilling that monetary compensation should be unnecessary ("doing it for love of the craft") and also as labor which only an elite few are congenitally able to perform (celebrity "talent" rather than "skill"). This leads to fewer formal avenues of support and encouragement for "creative" professionals compared to those in other fields.

Check out the conversations happening in writer spaces (Twitter is a good place to see a professional sphere's personal conversations publicly). Authors forge mutual admiration societies to encourage and support each other and share insights, because there's no formal spaces for that function in their profession. Writers like John Scalzi, Ursula Vernon, and Nnedi Okorafor talk about their process and the stress involved and where they think it comes from and what it means and how they handle it.

The expectations of editors and publishers, the role of agents as a buffer between authors and the rough edge of capitalism, and whether or not writer's block is really a thing, are common topics of conversation that all encompass their version of the graphic you linked above--and the diversity of experience they share is a good remedy for thinking that it's all the same for everybody.

Or look at illustrators or animators or video game designers talking about their deadlines, they've got a ton of pressure to turn out high-quality "creative" content very quickly with minimal support. Some thrive, some cope, some quit, some find lower-pressure spaces outside the exploitative but more visible and lucrative "mainstream" profession avenues.

Now, there IS an unfortunate false-expectations factor in a lot of "creative" professions: people get told "do what you love and you'll never feel like you're working" and that's just wrong. Whatever we're doing to earn money to keep ourselves and our loved ones alive, is going to get stressful because there's pressure and external expectations involved which we don't get when we're doing it as an amateur hobby.

I see a lot of people these days saying "No, don't do what you love as your day job because you'll fall out of love with it when you're forced to do it in order to eat."

Me, I'm a print-focused graphic designer (books, posters, brochures, etc) not because I love it (though I do enjoy the shapes it makes my brain twist into) but because I think making beautiful things that help people communicate with each other is an important service that I'm proud to offer to my local community.

I'm not in love with the thing I do, but with the effect it produces, and that's a very dramatic difference for me. If I were doing it for the act of creating, I'd be frustrated every time a client wanted me to change something.