Worst ever crit

A brillo pad floating in dirty dish water

Worst ever crit yesterday.  Spent Easter trying to come up with some kind of style.  Had no clear resolution on whether we could hand draw the 1:50 plan so was forced to photoshop this (good experience anyway) and it was compared to a 'brillo pad in a bowl of dirty washing up liquid'.  My work was incomplete for the second crit in a row as I take 1 step forward and 3 back.

I used to work for a billion dollar hedge fund and I left this company because the ethics practiced by the management were that of aggression and negativity.  Regular snide jokes, humiliation and bullying led to a loss of confidence and a feeling of worthlessness.  Favourites and whingers were given more support than non-fussmaking hard workers who were strong team players; the worker bees, but were never given any credit for what they did.  Work/life balance was seen as a weakness with those who were unable to manage their work loads and working rediculous hours praised and glorified for being commited.  The office atmosphere always tense with no 'good mornings' or 'how are you's', this being defined as weak insignifigant small talk, another method of management control to show how important they are compared to the minions.

I left that industry vowing to work for myself and in search of an industry where people were nice to each other, supported each other and where I could regain my confidence. I thought garden design would be different but maybe have I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire?