Day 156 Survey says

Day 156  Survey says

156:365

03/05/13

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I love myself; therefore, I work at a job I truly enjoy doing, one that uses my creative talents and abilities, working with and for people I love and for people who love me, and earning good income.”

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Work only with toilet paper tubes and/or paper towel tubes today.

 

Media:  Scrapbook paper, Magazine photos, Mod Podge, Zots, Cardboard bath tissue roll

Time:  1H:20M

Comments:  The background data in this collage is partially from a satisfaction survey that Contract Magazine published recently on professional Interior Designers.  I found it interesting that 83% of the profession is made up of women.  Yet, salaries for women in interior design are 70% of what men make.   Go, America!?!

The irony in this survey is that even though women are making less money than men in the field, 84% still report that they are happy with their career.  Women must not be measuring satisfaction in terms of dollars only.  Perhaps the work described in today's affirmation doesn't equate to the highest salaries, but to greater satisfaction in the long run?    

I'm hopeful that someday we, as a nation, get to a place where the gender and salary are not correlated.  And if that day doesn't come, I'm hopeful that someday I find the job that where the work is so satisfying that the pay rates are not something that stands out in my mind when I read survey results like this. 

 Link for more info:   http://contractmag.hotims.com/r5/search.asp?action=search&return_by_category=y

Day 117 Happy hour

117:365

01/25/13

Day 117 Happy hour 

Louise Hay affirmation:   “I see the resistance patterns within me only as something else to release.  They have no power over me.  I am the Power in my world.”

 

Inspiration exercise from 365 Daily Creativity Journal:   Go out of your way.  Travel somewhere you wouldn’t normally go today specifically to create something inspired by that location.

Media:  Magazine photos, Postcard, Vellum, Matte medium, Glue stick

Time:  55M

Comments:  My out of the way detour today was to go to happy hour with some commercial designer friends after work.  Conversation centered around work projects and coworker personalities.  Always enjoyable, and a fun time to get together with other designers.   

Amazing to hear how gender in the workplace can still be an issue regardless of where we work... even after all the years since women entered the workforce in the US.  For me, resistance patterns that turn learning, sharing, networking and encouraging one another into gossip or grousing about work or the state of the world were in my conscious awareness as we talked.  It's too easy to slide to a negative and cynical place at times. "They have no power over me!"  

On the drive home from Dallas, I thought about how each of us has been working in the field long enough to lead our own design consultancies, but still choose to work in corporate or design firm environments.  Old resistances around fear of the unknown in starting a design venture on my own, without the safety net of a steady paycheck, came up again.