#garycard

What were the main hurdles and challenges you faced in the early stages of your career?

Like anybody starting out in a creative field money was a big concern. I would pour my own funds into editorial work and that would sometimes leave me with nothing to live on. Also learning how to manage a team; at the beginning of my career I didn’t know who to ask for help so I built everything myself, sometime my lovely father would help me construct things (he was a builder) but mainly I took everything on my shoulders, that was very stressful when I was young. I had a lot of attention very quickly and I was getting lots of commercial job offers before I’d really learnt my craft, so a lot of mistakes were made very publicly. From there, building a team became important, learning how to handle that was a challenge and I tripped up along the way. The thing about fucking up on the job is you never make the same mistake twice.