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How do you gain respect as a designer, especially as a young designer?

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Music and links from this episode

1. Indian Summer by Lobo Loco
2. Electric Puppet by Mystery Mammal

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1. When you speak to anybody
2. In any career really
3. And you ask them one question
4. What is it you really want from your career?
5. People will say surface things
6. Like money
7. Fame
8. Appreciation
9. But everybody really wants one thing
10. And especially designers
11. And that’s respect
12. This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess
13. MUSIC
14. I remember when I first started out a designer
15. And I especially remember this when I first started out as a freelance designer
16. I wanted respect
17. I wanted clients and peers to respect me as a designer
18. I knew I was right about some of the design decisions I’d made
19. But why were clients overruling me, or not believing that I was right?
20. What was I doing wrong?
21. I was like every other young designer
22. I wanted my work to be respected 
23. And I wanted to be respected as a professional
24. It’s hard as a designer, and even more so when you’re a young designer who might lack confidence or conviction
25. Designers just starting out usually lack confidence in their skills
26. And that’s just natural, it’s normal
27. And because they lack confidence
28. That shows in meetings with clients and people buying the design
29. Then you go in a vicious circle of not being respected as a designer
30. And add on top of that a simple fact 
31. That lots of people don’t respect design as a profession
32. And people just see graphic designers as people who just colour in
33. Lots of people don’t respect design as a profession
34. Because they don’t see it as a real profession, like a doctor or a lawyer
35. The only way to gain respect as a designer
36. Is to command respect as a designer
37. Don’t be a yes designer
38. Don’t just say yes to everybody all the time
39. If you know you’ve done something right
40. Tell people it’s been done right, and there’s a reason it’s been done that way
41. Always command respect for your work
42. Command respect by being confident about your work
43. And confident that you’ve done your job correctly as a professional
44. Respect comes from confidence
45. And confidence only comes from experience, and unfortunately, there’s no shortcut to that
46. MUSIC
47. This was AADA and I’m Craig Burgess
48. Music featured in this episode was:
49. 1. Indian Summer by Lobo Loco