How much work should one designer do?

Question

Design

I'm wondering, maybe I'm just not a super pro designer yet.
Explain to me such a thing, I work for a company that creates websites.
They have 1 designer, that's me.
Moreover, I have about 7 current projects hanging on me, and all priority ones, and all urgent ones ... then more are added.
Before that, I have not come across anything like this, because in a team, usually (if there is such a volume of work, at least 2 designers), and here it turns out, draw a full-fledged site (category product card, etc.), in parallel, you need to draw another site, do internal tasks at the same time.
I don’t have much time, due to the fact that I’m constantly distracted by different tasks and between tasks, the question is, it’s just that I haven’t grown to the SUPER PRO LEVEL yet, and this is a common situation in the work of a designer, or ... I don’t understand something..?
zp about 180 dollars.
And in general, tell us, do you also switch from one task to another, that is, you didn’t finish one - an urgent worker came - you give up the first one - you switch?

Answer 1

Rather, your employer was able to find a plow horse for a pittance.
1. One person cannot manage 7 projects at the same time. Maximum 2-3.
2. Much depends on the complexity of the projects. If your 7 projects are ordinary, unremarkable landing pages, then maybe. You won’t be able to lead even 2 serious projects at once, if only because you will always be pulled over trifles (which in any project are always 80% of the entire project).
3. Ideally, the work should be structured like this: we received a project, drew everything that was possible, approved the design, while your design is being typed up and the entire site is being written, you are doing the next design at this moment.

Answer 2

The company you work for seems to be an ordinary galley. Where they recruit, to work for food, he worked in one himself, though not for $ 180 but $ 270, it is advisable not to delay in such, only you will lose time.

Answer 3

Zp - small, very small. Even for trainees
Prioritizing work is not your job.
If your boss is willing to increase overall project design time because of switching overhead, that's his problem.
You don't even have to worry about missed deadlines
. Your task is to clearly read the boss's instructions - what you should be doing at the current moment .
All this should be in some kind of task manager (trello, mail, paper, whiteboard,...) - the manager knows that you are working on task X and you are really working on task X
Learn to do it faster, more efficiently, on time (even if they are not adequate)
Learn to give deadlines: a deadline in a hurry, a deadline with thought, a deadline to make it perfect
If after six months of such work you start to succeed in working at such a pace, feel free to look for an office for 800+ ye

Answer 4

No matter how much you do, it will always be slow and you want a big salary. The usual practice is when the head of the huckster is engaged in sales.

Answer 5

This is called "squeezing the juice out of the worker."
Works well on young and naive workers.
More irregular working hours and work on weekends.
And it's good when staff turnover is a constant influx of fresh blood.
The employer does not care that you are overworking - he needs to row the loot, and if you don’t like it, please quit, those who want to work like that are full.
In general, if you do not work in normal offices such as Lebedev's studio and in the capital, the profession of a designer is suffering.

Answer 6

Work can only be effective if you focus on one thing.
It is recommended to schedule no more than one (1) large priority task per day and 2-3 small ones.
Although I'm not sure that this is possible in the sweatshop you described.

Answer 7

Personal experience - the limit (!) 3 projects per day, 6 days a week. The usual workload is 2 projects. The minimum is 1 project. I don’t take on more than three projects (I don’t physically have time).
ZP is higher than indicated in the topic ... But I also work for myself.
In general, I wrote how to work in an emergency - https://idzenski.ru/kak-stat-dzhiedaiem-dzhiedaisk...
But I recommend that you find another office - $ 180 for a competent designer is critically low.