# What would you classify yourself as? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464 "2003-11-14T07:51:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Marz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/1 "2003-11-14T07:51:44Z")
If you had to put your general flash usage to the test and name yourself something… Which of the above would you be… tell why then… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/2 "2003-11-14T08:32:19Z")
I think I’m a designer, because I’m too lazy to program and I like drawing and design more… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/3 "2003-11-14T09:38:29Z")
hehe good thread 😉 I’m a programmer and currently dabble in design with mind to becoming Designer Programmer know-it-all ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/4 "2003-11-14T10:02:32Z")
Designer/Developer for me (it’s actually my job title too). I started out as a programmer, then fell into the design and found I liked that too. So I’ve ended up being both… I find it’s easier that way. You can design for coding, since you know what is and isn’t possible. But you can also code for design… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/5 "2003-11-14T10:31:47Z")
definitely only designer atm, but my Uni lectures on Maya (MEL) scripting are pretty closely related… so now al I have to do is find time to boot up Flash and do some work! :sure: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/6 "2003-11-14T10:43:41Z")
Which Uni!? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/7 "2003-11-14T10:47:43Z")
Bournemouth 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/8 "2003-11-14T14:34:37Z")
Designer with a slight angle into Designer Programmer… Im on the border line i guess. give me a year or so and I will be the latter. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/9 "2003-11-14T14:38:12Z")
what I want to know is when do you concider yourself a designer? when you’ve completed a course in it? when you’ve had an active interest in it for so long? if my little 6 year old cousin decided he was a designer tomorrow and started playing with ms paint is he a designer then? I guess you might call him an amature designer ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/10 "2003-11-14T14:38:45Z")
Designer without a doubt here. I know enough AS to get by and add enough interactivity to make my movies interesting. But I have always sucked at programming. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/11 "2003-11-14T14:55:32Z")
> \*Originally posted by m\_andrews808 \* > \*\*what I want to know is when do you concider yourself a designer? when you’ve completed a course in it? when you’ve had an active interest in it for so long? if my little 6 year old cousin decided he was a designer tomorrow and started playing with ms paint is he a designer then? I guess you might call him an amature designer \*\* Interesting question!! Well i think that in the proffessional scene a designer would be someone who has completed a design course in order to have that title. You can call yourselve a designer, but if you were to go for a job interview, and call yourself a designer in your CV, then they ask you were you studied, i very sure that self taught would not be a answer they look for. As for your cousin maybe call him “training artist” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/12 "2003-11-14T15:02:06Z")
yeah I guess its depends on the context, like you say on your cv you’d be expected to be able to back it up with some course/qualification. Having said that, as soon as you get paid to do any form of work that makes you a professional in that trade doesn’t it? So if ‘tranee artist’ were paid for a poster design he could then call himself a professional designer? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/13 "2003-11-14T15:08:32Z")
The poll’s saying you’re 50% designers at the moment, thats interesting. I bet you any money that if you did the same poll over on FlashKit there wouldn’t be as high a concentration of designers simply because Kirupa looks soooo much better than FK! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/14 "2003-11-14T15:08:53Z")
A programmer… hands down. Tweens and I don’t get along, we got in a bit of a tiff way back, haven’t worked with eachother since. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/15 "2003-11-14T15:12:40Z")
well let say a “Qualified Designer” rather than professional designer 😉 its dosent matter how much work you can do, you still dont have a design qualification (legally). This paper helps to increases your chances to get a job over someone with no experience. :: also gives me a title and a legal reason to charge people a arm and leg for my work, i cant call myself a mechanic if i fix my mates car for little or no money. …hehe Designer/Mechanic/DigitalMusician. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/16 "2003-11-14T15:17:50Z")
if anyone’s interested: [http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=507965](http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=507965) lets see how fk’ers compare to kirupians 😉 sorry to copy an’ paste your post buddhamarz please don’t sue me over copyright! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/17 "2003-11-14T15:21:40Z")
I am one of the 3 that is none of the above… I dont know much of anything as far as computers, design or programming…I just got suckered into this place long ago by Fester and ignore the posts about stuff I jsut dont understand! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/18 "2003-11-14T15:46:15Z")
I don’t think that you need a University paper to prove that you are a designer. Whatever you may call it “qualified” or “professional”, it all sound really weird to me in relation to designing. It is “creating emotions-triggering, sometimes useful things”, just like music and nobody really cares whether a J.Lennon had a paper or not - most people know him as a musician. There are people who require papers ( I myself got one:) but it does not make anybody better only because someone is a “trained-how-to-make-great-design” artist. And as for things that increase your chances to get a job, speaking of my and my friends’ experience, in 90% cases, it has been the previous work I’d done to get a new job.😉 cheers to youall, fellow designers! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/19 "2003-11-14T15:55:13Z")
I’m a designer right now though I wish I was more of a programmer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464/20 "2003-11-14T16:03:37Z")
Designer (tweens and movies, knows enough AS to do this) I know from where u got the idea for this thread 😛 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-would-you-classify-yourself-as/35464.md?page=2)