lisa - worst job

My worst job ever was working as a hostess at a bar located in the area of Chicago known as the “Viagra Triangle”.

My intended audience is mainly my peers but also some potential employers. My intention with this piece was to convey why it was such a terrible environment to work in.  I also wanted to show the audience a bit of the moral conflict I felt while working there. The objectification, substance abuse and depravity I witnessed while working there was something that really stuck with me. This is why I chose the images of the martini glass full of pills and the woman’s lower half in my design.

I chose this simplified aesthetic for my design because I feel it best represents how generic the bar was and how I felt about my position there. My job was basically to show up and look “pretty” and I kept this in mind while making my designs. This is also why I chose to use Helvetica as my typeface, because I feel it represents corporate culture and in some ways a lack of originality or authenticity.

I felt that the integrative design I chose, communicated my feelings toward my job most effectively. Overall it was a surreal experience, being asked for my phone number by men that were my father’s age, if not older, babysitting drunk people, and pretending like I was happy to talk to people when I wanted to go hide from everyone.