# 25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Designer

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**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/25-reasons-you-might-be-a-hardcore-designer/242419 "2007-10-25T19:22:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/25-reasons-you-might-be-a-hardcore-designer/242419/1 "2007-10-25T19:22:30Z")

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(Taken from [http://www.cg-files.com/25-Reasons-you-might-be-a-hardcore-cg.html](http://www.cg-files.com/25-Reasons-you-might-be-a-hardcore-cg.html))

> [LIST=1]  
> [_]You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing [COLOR=Black]a font on a[/COLOR] billboard.  
> [_]You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.  
> [_]You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.  
> [_]You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.  
> [_]You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.  
> [_]You consider meals interruptions.  
> [_]You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.  
> [_]You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.  
> [_]You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.  
> [_]You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.  
> [_]You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.  
> [_]When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.  
> [_]When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)  
> [_]You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.  
> [_]You’ve actually $paid for a font.  
> [_]You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)  
> [_]The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.  
> [_]You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.  
> [_]You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.  
> [_]You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)  
> [_]You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.  
> [_]You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.  
> [_]You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.  
> [_]You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.  
> [\*]If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.[/LIST]