Why I don't make a good developer/designer.......

Above and beyond, that just being near computers puts me in a foul mood now a days, development (especially for web and graphic design) requires somthing more.

VISUAL CREATIVITY

I don't consider myself a creative person to begin with, and definitly not visually creative. Personally I don't really care how things look. What I care about is, can I easily find the information that I'm looking for? I don't care if there are graphics, or sounds, or even if it looks "estetically" good. Is what I need there and can I find it easily. What rots me even more is having to watch those silly little folders/files arc arcoss the window, and disintergrate into nothing. GET RID OF THAT CRAP I SAY. Quit wasting my time, and my CPU process on that silly little visually creative "CUTE" thing. Just delete the G.D.F. files. Other people love this and some even enjoy it. I'm definitly not one of them.

I don't really care if a font is 10 point, or 18 point. Is the information able to fit on the page and am I able to read it easily? That's what I care about. Do I care if it's a Serif or Sans Serif font? Not really. If I had my choice (and this is the most anti-visually creative thing possible) I would be happy if every thing was done in good old courier font.

For those of you that don't know, this is courier. Notice that each character takes up the same amount of space? Notice that each space character is the same. The letter B takes up the same amount of space as the letter i.

Notice that I can line up things by using just spaces.

Name Rk Serial Number
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Greg XV 123-45-678
Paul IV 987-65-432

Pretty neat huh? Try doing that with a porportional spaced font. Your results will be pretty crooked.

Name Rank Serial Number
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Greg XV 123-45-678
Paul IV 987-65-432

This is a direct copy/paste from the above.


Do I care if a color is green, or a variation of a green called rainforest. Personally I couldn't care less. To many people (those visually creative types) it is the difference between night and day. To me, it's just green.

And as you know, my spelling is horrible. Not because I want to spell bad, it's just somthing I am horrible at, and have struggled with since I first learned how to write. Short of memorizing the entire english dictionary (which I did try doing in my younger years, in our free reading time, I would read the dictionary over Robin Hood, or The Three Musketeers.) So you know, there wasn't a noticable improvement in my spelling, even in words begining with the letter "A". Being a bad speller doesn't really work well in things that the "public" is going to see. I can admit that, and honestly, I whole heartedly agree with it. It means, that I'm *not* the right person to be doing it.

And yes, it even happens with clothing. I don't wear somthing because it looks good, I wear it because it's functional or applicable to the the situation . If it's hot, (temperature wise, not the Paris Hiltion "That's sooo Hot") I'm going to wear that isn't going to make me sweat like fragging pig. The idea of somthing being to "summer" is totally forgien to me. It doesn't make sense to me. If it's 90 degrees outside in December, I'm going to wear a t-shirt or the likes. I'm not going to be wearing a wool sweater because that's what you wear in December. To me, comfort should come before fashion. That doesn't boed with with visually creative people.

That's the main reason I hate wearing suits. Suits to me are some of the most uncomfortable things known to man. Have I worn them before? Yes. Have I ever enjoyed wearing a suit in my lifetime? NEVER. Have I enjoyed wearing shorts and a golf shirt in December? ALWAYS!

The concept of wearing shoes that are uncomfortable because they are visually creative or "fasionable" to me is crazy. I will admit, I've worn some of the most uncomfortable shoes known to man. Rock climbing shoes. Yeah, they are uncomfortable, but they served a purpose, I was rock climbing. Regular shoes don't stick to the rock like climbing shoes. And what's even better? They are a bright, borderlining on a flourcent ORANGE. Fasionable? I doubt it, but then again, I'm not visually creative, so I won't make that call.

So am I saying one way is more right than the other? It all depends on your point of view and therefore there is no right or wrong answer. It just shows that some people are better suited for things than others.

So is development for me? No, definitly not. I got my development bug out of me in high school. It also explains why systems administration worked so much better for me at that time. There was less "visual creativity" to it. The visuals were already defined (not that I liked all of them, re: disintegrating folder/file mentioned above).

Now, I'm not really sure what works for me anymore. I'm not enjoying either. Even the entertainment aspect isn't even enjoyable. The dislike of computers which has grown over the past 5 years doesn't really help either.

Yet I'm here again, in that ironic situation, blogging.