Garbage man and veterinarian? That sounds better than being able to design stuff to justify how pretentious you are. Design is a lot of fun to look and think about though, right? I fell into clients after working as a poster maker for my university, ranking skill is impossible, it's easier to just know what you don't know. It's actually kind of depressing to me right now, I've been looking for a different job to get my mind off design work. I'll get a cactus tomorrow and send a picture as soon as I do!
I learned pretense in art school. It's impossible not to. I deploy it carefully but I studied sculpture so we were the kids who wore boots and drank PBR. We can be very blue collar. I tend to downplay my design skills. I'm not a slouch and can talk shop. Type set is strangely relaxing for me. I have very firm and obnoxious opinions about typefaces. One thing I know about cactus is that since they require little water you can put an ice cube in their bowl from time to time to water them. I don't want to tag Kleinbl00 for this he may come back around with actual advice