The Value Of Our Creative Work
Freelance Road Trip Podcast
English - January 20, 2022 17:34 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBusiness Arts Design creativity designer graphicdesigner illustrator photographer business businessofdesign freelance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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One of the things that is often disregarded is the value of creativity, and especially the value of creativity to business. There's the mindset that, “You’re doing what you love to do. It’s creative, it’s fun. You shouldn’t expect to be paid much for it because your payment is in the enjoyment of what you do.” That’s true to some extent — we should enjoy our work. The thing is, though, that we need to look at what we do as having value beyond just the enjoyment. In Episode 101 I state the case that commerce and media need what we creatives do.