True I.D. Stories #7: Money, Revenge and Miscalculations

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This is a true story. Descriptions of companies, clients, schools, projects, and designers may be altered and anonymized to protect the innocent.

Editor: Here we arrive at the final chapter of Good Ol’ Boy’s quest to attain his dream job at [Hot Design Consultancy]! There’s a twist we didn’t see coming. And if you missed the first, second, third or fourth part of this story, catch up first!


At the beginning of this story, I’d just graduated with a Bachelors in Industrial Design. After getting rejected from Hot Design, the consultancy where I really wanted to work, I’d then spent:

Two years working a crappy, barely-ID job
Two years busting my ass in grad school
Nearly two years working for a Consumer Electronics giant under an Evil Boss—and being severely underpaid, at $35,000 a year

Now, six years after that first mess of an interview, I’d aced my second interview with Hot Design and parlayed a short freelance gig there into a full-time job offer—a Senior Designer position paying $60,000 a year. For most people, to get what you’d been chasing for six years would be good enough. But me, I’ve got what you call a personality flaw. I can’t let some things go; I hate the feeling of people getting over on me.

So I wasn’t going to just quietly quit my gig at CE Giant. I wanted my Evil Boss, the guy who’d screwed me with a salary lower than what an undergrad makes, to eat a nice shit sandwich that I would make for him.

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