Thank you for the responses. Yo, I think that’s a solid checklist to go by and I’ve looked through it several times the past few days. I want to approach the situation in a way that allows me to grow alongside the company’s design culture, instead of feeling sketchy for secretly developing a new portfolio of work as an exit …I’ve already applied a few of the things you said. Pretty excited to get started facilitating brainstorms and doing trend reports.
@sgoochoa- That’s quite a situation. I think you are definitely right and it is similar to what Yo had said regarding something as simple as going for lunch with people I admire or would like to learn from. I’ve been pretty lucky to build a professional relationship with my old model building professor this past week which has already been very helpful.