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Lost my entire project file in a coffee shop in Chiang Mai and had to rebuild from scratch in 2 days
I was working on a big freelance design project at this little spot near the old city, everything was going smooth. Then my laptop just went black - battery died before I could save to the cloud. Panic set in when I realized the autosave folder was corrupt. I spent the next 48 hours sleeping maybe 4 hours total, redoing logo concepts and layouts from memory. The client never knew, but I learned to set up 3 different backup systems after that. Has anyone else had a close call like that where you just barely saved yourself?
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charlieh744h ago
Gotta disagree here. Sounds like you actually LEARNED something valuable from this disaster. Now you have triple backups and a system that actually works. Sometimes you NEED that kick in the pants to get your act together.
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ray5622h ago
Damn right, it's funny how the universe just forces you to level up sometimes... that's the thing with life, you don't really change until the pain gets bad enough to make you.
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