December 13, 2009
“If you want to have your own firm, you have to come to terms with the fact that it means that more than 50% of the time will be running the business, not designing. At a certain point you have to embrace it, or you will end up resenting it and it will sour the freedom you have. In all honesty, probably 80% of my time is the logistics of running everything these days, and then I come home and do the design work at night. Someone has to run the ship, and the someone ends up being you or you capsize. No where else can you have this freedom, so the fact that 80% of my day is spent on paperwork is fine because I get to design and make whatever I want, whenever I want. I will take that option every time. No one else is going to hand you your dreams, you have to go out there and build them. There is no golden opportunity, no free ride, no client that will give you carte blanche. There is just you. You have to build your own future.”
Brian Flynn and Dora Drimalas, Owners of Hybrid Design
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