How I Fell in Love with My Career Again

Carla Tugues
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
5 min readMar 22, 2019

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And found a better me in between

When I was a kid, I dreamed of being many things. I wanted to be a physician, then a veterinary, criminologist, quantum physicist, professional tennis player, mechanical engineer and many more that I can’t remember.

But I never thought of graphic design or writing.

I didn’t know what I liked nor what I wanted to do. All I knew is that I had to please the image of the person that I was supposed to be (the expectations that others had from me) and went to college to study engineering.

After three years of battling with it, I decided to study graphic design. It was the first decision that I made just by myself, and I was thrilled with it at that time.

Ten years later, I would be struggling with my job every time I was in front of the screen. My specialty (branding) was what I hated the most, but generally speaking, there was nothing that I liked.

One day I was done with it, just like when I quit engineering and fell in love with graphic design. I decided that I was not going to spend the next twenty years trying so hard to like it, six years was enough.

I quit my biggest clients and my business partners and stopped taking new projects.

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Carla Tugues
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

Writer | Designer | Eco-artist | Brain lover | Sushi hater | Life is the most precious gift. Why do we wait for our deaths if we can enjoy every second we have?