Post-grad thoughts: Do I still want to be a designer?

Rechelle Abalos
2 min readNov 6, 2020
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In short, heck yes, but it’s never that easy.

It’s been 6 months since I graduated from my Design Bootcamp and 2 months since I’ve declared my official job search date. Overall, it’s been pretty disheartening.

With the state of the world feeling like a weight on my personal and professional shoulders, balancing it all has proven itself a difficult challenge time and time again.

So as I receive another rejection and ghost, why on earth would I still want to be a Designer?

I’m hyper-focused on improving the User Experience.

As someone who has worked in retail for a decade (yikes!), hospitality, integrity, and quality customer service is ingrained into my personality. I’ll look at apps and analyze the user experience, like a trained opera singer watching American Idol.

I come across bad interfaces way too often.

You know the saying, if you don’t like something, change it? I think about that a lot when I complain about UX/UI Interfaces that I come across daily.

I still have a lot of fight left in me.

If I didn’t want to be a Designer, I would just quit. I did that when I switched majors, and again when I quit my previous career path. It took some time but I did it and I’ve been happier since.

Sometimes we get discouraged

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Rechelle Abalos

I’m a Brooklyn-based UX/UI Designer in love with improving our experiences focused on food, technology, and other human beings.