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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I have read that Canadian Geographic magazine ( like National Geographic magazine, but colder ) decided to fire their photo-editor.

It's a photo-centric magazine.

So, their quality dropped.

& that had consequences..

Since I only read 1 source for the story, I've no idea if it tests-out, but that is exactly the problem with hard-to-grow expertise: you don't know how much worth it is, until you lose it, & then you can't quickly/easily get it back.

( this story is actually a good example of why people should be tested for roles the're not even close to working-in:

it'd help one calibrate the difficulty-in-replacing particular people, AND it'd identify if you even can replace them, & if not, get training backups or get bringing-in people, until you've got a backup, eh? )

Anyways, until a person has worked-through Betty Edwards' "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the 4th Definitive edition", & experienced the hemisphere-dominance-shift, themselves, it simply isn't understandable how meaningful that shift is.

( also, it validates exactly what Hofstadter wrote "Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" about: that each kind-of-knowing is incapable of knowing ANY meaning which isn't within-its-kind-of-knowing. )

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Graphics designer maybe, creative, probably

But artist?

Negro please

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Plot twist: Graph was mad with AI

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Project Manager was #1 but they told the artist it didn't fit the scope.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They were probably asked an open ended question. Artist is likely the most common answer given due to the simple fact that more people can think of that job compared to PR manager when asked

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A quick image search returned this

https://mothership.sg/2020/06/milieu-survey-sunday-times-essential/

So many commenters are missing crucial context to this infographic.

This was released during peak covid and I mean PEAK as in June 2020, global lockdowns, high mortality rates, shortages of essentials. In case anyone has a short memory, the world as we knew it practically ground to a halt.

Not to take away anything from artists but essential in this context meant essential to the basic human needs. Health, Nutrition, Sanitation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The world you knew ground to a halt.

I was working in healthcare at the time. I was doing 60 hours a week, home, work, home, work, home, work. Nonstop.

The world did not stop because you couldn’t go into an office to sit and work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Maybe they worked remote before and during the pandemic

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the 23% of people who didn't vote for garbage collector... Are they hoarders?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're the people who just haul their own trash to the dump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My sister is a graphic designer and makes good money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know they meant painter but graphic designer is probably one of the most important jobs if we’re talking about business. A company without some sort of graphic is dead in the water.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah? Well.. Who designed their font?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think that font might be Proxima Nova, which was designed by Mark Simonson. When looking up that name, I learned that this design was inspired by "the roundness of geometric sans serifs like Futura" and "the proportions of modern grotesques like Helvetica.", so I suppose we should also tip our hats to Paul Renner (Futura), and Max Midinger and Eduard Hoffman (Helvetica)

(N.b. I am only moderately knowledgeable in typeface history. Any other nerds who enjoy learning may appreciate this random video

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Artist? I think the job was passed off to the first person passing the bosses desk.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it's definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let's go with that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Its right about telemarketing

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