Is my background in a printing company a complex? (2)

I am atelier aya, a freelance graphic designer.
Last time, I wrote about how I have a bit of a complex regarding the fact that at the printing company I joined as a new graduate, I spent some time doing a job that is now almost extinct: analog plate-making (retouching).

I do think that if this hadn't been analog plate-making, but rather experience like having prepared quotes or having done even a little bit of planning or sales, it might not have become a complex and could have been more useful.

My father even said things to me like, "I put you through university, and you're doing factory girl work!" I'm sorry for being a disappointing daughter, but isn't that a bit harsh?

Besides that, the reason it's a complex is probably because I think about how there are many people working in design who don't know the details of retouching work (after all, it barely exists anymore), and there are also many people who have worked hard and thought a lot about design itself.

Also, when I went for an interview at a certain design firm later, the representative said to me, "CMYK? I don't really know about that kind of thing," and I wondered if that's what people who are actively designing are like (this is also a source of a complex for me when calling myself a designer). Of course, not everyone is like that!

Since I am self-taught in design, I feel like I have taken quite a few detours. Well, I'm just feeling that way on my own, though...

It's not that the knowledge from that time hasn't been useful at all; there are many things I'm glad I know. After all, I am a designer of printed materials.
Also, I would like to write about the craftsmen who were active at that time.

I know someone who was a phototypesetting craftsman and became a delivery driver after losing his job.
There must be many craftsmen who lost their jobs along with the changing times like that.
Only those who desperately wanted to continue working and kept up with the times by learning software like InDesign and Illustrator remain today.
But it is precisely because such people existed that today's printing technology exists.

Since this is getting long again, I will write about the details of analog plate-making work next time.
<To be continued>