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<blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6265679" data-attributes="member: 50895"><p>Well, I wouldn't work in a corporate environment given the choice.</p><p></p><p>After college, and after a stint in the US Army, I figured out that I didn't want to work for a big company, and in fact I didn't want to work for anybody. Right out of the army, holding a minimum wage graphics job until I could get on my feet, I started a pressure washing company (not because it was something I really wanted to do, rather because I wanted to be in business with myself, and at the time I didn't really take the graphics industry seriously (more than as a possible job.) I ran the pressure washing company for 5 years, and a competitor offered money to buy me out - so I did. After that I really wanted to get back into the graphics industry, and we're my education was intended.</p><p></p><p>So I started a small graphic design/digital print company with no employees - I wearing all hats. Soon after I incorporated, at first renting a store, eventually buying a large building on 3 acres of land. I've run this company since April 1994, so I am almost at 20 years at this now.</p><p></p><p>In 2007, wanting to get into the gaming industry, I started to doing freelance cartography for various small publishers, eventually developing and publishing my own game setting as an imprint under Rite Publishing. I plan to become a publisher, and at this time am considering doing publishing instead of my graphics design/print studio, and possibly closing my business. I'm tired of serving local customers and kind want to just serve gamers.</p><p></p><p>I know that if circumstances forced me to close my businesses and work for someone else, I'd have a tough time of it, having worked for so many years on my own. I don't know if I could easily work for anyone ever again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gamerprinter, post: 6265679, member: 50895"] Well, I wouldn't work in a corporate environment given the choice. After college, and after a stint in the US Army, I figured out that I didn't want to work for a big company, and in fact I didn't want to work for anybody. Right out of the army, holding a minimum wage graphics job until I could get on my feet, I started a pressure washing company (not because it was something I really wanted to do, rather because I wanted to be in business with myself, and at the time I didn't really take the graphics industry seriously (more than as a possible job.) I ran the pressure washing company for 5 years, and a competitor offered money to buy me out - so I did. After that I really wanted to get back into the graphics industry, and we're my education was intended. So I started a small graphic design/digital print company with no employees - I wearing all hats. Soon after I incorporated, at first renting a store, eventually buying a large building on 3 acres of land. I've run this company since April 1994, so I am almost at 20 years at this now. In 2007, wanting to get into the gaming industry, I started to doing freelance cartography for various small publishers, eventually developing and publishing my own game setting as an imprint under Rite Publishing. I plan to become a publisher, and at this time am considering doing publishing instead of my graphics design/print studio, and possibly closing my business. I'm tired of serving local customers and kind want to just serve gamers. I know that if circumstances forced me to close my businesses and work for someone else, I'd have a tough time of it, having worked for so many years on my own. I don't know if I could easily work for anyone ever again. [/QUOTE]
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