What is it like to be a visual designer in the manufacturing industry?

A girl majoring in optoelectronics said from her own experience that she is a rare engineering girl and I have considered finding a job for a long time. During my freshman and sophomore years, I taught myself professional knowledge of video transmission and various design software, and also took orders for vi design and ppt templates. Now I am doing marketing for a leading company in the laser industry. My daily routine is to do all kinds of chores: poster design, running public accounts, editing videos, taking photos, attending exhibitions, document review, etc...

Where do I need it? I moved bricks somewhere and did a lot of interesting work. I would like to share my work with you, hoping to bring some reference to students who want to join the manufacturing industry. By the way, I will show you my work station, where I have cute stuff that my colleagues always praise me~

The joy of designing! 1. Entry-related matters

I was recruited to the company from school, and my portfolio helped me a lot. It also happened to be a position vacated by the resignation of my seniors. Some of my colleagues are in the Internet industry and are unable to find new jobs, while others are invited to work as freelancers.

The manufacturing industry generally has more recruitment information on its official website, so just call. Or take the initiative to ask on various job search websites, but there will be relatively few clerical positions.

On my first day of employment, my leader told me that manufacturing has always been boring and boring, and aesthetics are cold and boring. I didn't take it to heart at the time, but after working for a while, I realized that your boss was right... Many times, promotional posters cannot use trendy layouts, and ppt cannot use fancy animation effects. The design effect is very rigid, just I can only force myself to look at industry designs from more than ten years ago...similar to the bright red background of Yiwu clearance sale! Aesthetic downgrading is too painful!

It was as if someone was holding a loudspeaker and shouting "clearance" 2. Work content

My friend described my work as: out of 100 Lu Zhishen who pulled up trees, one Zhang who knew how to embroider emerged. fly. This shows that there are too many men in the company! 98% of them are men in science and engineering, so after I made an extremely crude product manual, they would still shout, "Here you go, Xiao Ever since, under this kind of flattery, I have become a fairy-like designer in the words of my colleagues... They will be amazed because I refined the original drawings in CAD in two minutes, and they will also be amazed by the fact that I have been running the public account for two months. I got 20 followers and praised me (sometimes it’s really nice, even if it’s a product of fishing, I can be praised highly.)

I also encounter times when the leaders are whimsical, and sometimes they are mysterious They said to me, "Let's make a video of the parts scattered and finally assembled into a machine on the screen. It will feel very shocking!" At that time, I looked at their sincere eyes and just wanted to say, "Boss, we are not making Transformers." "Yeah!"

Because there is not so much work, you can do your own thing when the work is done. Generally, it is OK to look at other design cases, practice calligraphy, and fish. 3. Benefits

Clerical employees in the company basically do not work overtime, but the price is that they go to work too early! From 8:30 in the morning to 6:00 in the afternoon, there is a one-and-a-half-hour break at noon and weekends. After get off work, there will be free shuttle buses to various districts, and there will be overtime buses at 8:30.

Bonuses include high temperature subsidy, transportation subsidy, phone bill subsidy, job subsidy, perfect attendance award, etc. Recently, the company is planning to change it to six insurances and two funds for everyone, which is pretty good!

The huge afternoon tea on Women’s Day

In summer there will be a lot of ice cream in the refrigerator in the tea room. There will be ginger tea bags in winter to warm the baby. There are also indoor gyms, open-air basketball courts, tennis courts, and running tracks for everyone to relax and have a rest. Gifts and shopping cards are given out on all holidays. Women's Day and Mother's Day are specially given to women in the company. There are also nursing rooms and menstrual leave. Women-friendliness is very important to me! 4. Summary

I am really happy to have this working experience. I always hear that manufacturing is a sunset industry, but as a child born after the millennium, I have witnessed the golden age of Chinese manufacturing taking off. We also experienced the economic downturn caused by the epidemic. Keep your passion in the manufacturing industry and continue to learn and make progress, which can be considered as a contribution to Made in China~