We post about timesheets quite a bit around here, but here’s a slightly different take on timesheets from our friends at Floate. In his article for Dear Design Student, Ross Floate talks about the “work around the work” being the actual work. In other words, the design work that you do is only part of your job.
We have a strange saying at Floate, “The work around the work is the work.” By that we mean that timesheets, meetings, phone calls, conversations in Basecamp or any of a million other things are part of the fabric of what we do. This work around the work comes with the territory and get ready for this one crazy thing they didn’t tell you in design school — if you are bad at this stuff then you are bad at your job. Period.
Have a read of “Q: Do I really have to do all of this paperwork? Can’t I just, you know, design?”
