School? Can't wait! You?

Last year I was going to school to be a stenographer. Great money, not my thing. I'm very artsy. I love taking pictures and drawing them. So I've decided that I want to go to school to be a Web/Graphic Designer. But I also want to incorporate advertising in there some how? I think it'd be so much fun to create ads on billboards and television. My question is do I have to go to school for two different things then? I already have the online school I want to go to. I'm going to major in Multimedia Design and Development. They teach you advertising in the program. But what if I want advertising to be my main....thing? You know? haha, sorry if it sounds confusing.

ANYWAY, are you guys doing what you went to college for? And do you enjoy it? I'd love to hear about it!

 

I have really considered the prices because I'm sort of living on my own and I know it's going to take awhile to pay the loans and stuff back on my own. I probably WILL look into other schools but for right now my mind is sort of settled on one. But I have til after January to decide anyway.
And that's cool that you have a degree in English. That's my favorite subject and I used to think about going to school for it...but I hate teenagers/kids. They're brats and overall jerks. Plus, very immature. You think middle schoolers are like toddlers...try high school. hahaha.
But hopefully it works out for you! It sounds like you've picked something you enjoy. I hope I pick the right thing. I know alot of people go to school for one thing and end up working in a completely different field after they've graduated. I don't want that to happen

 

I went to College for Geo-physics, to basically work for oil companies looking for reserves.... I dropped out because I didn't want to work at a desk and didn't want to colour in maps. Instead.... I'm an electrician and I went to a technical college for that.... I loved it... was really easy comparatively to physics....

 

So basically you enjoy this job better, right? I knew that if I stuck with stenography...I would've been wasting money and my time on something I would've hated. I'm outgoing and talkative and opinionated! I can't sit behind a mini typewriter and not speak my mind about the case going on haha. It would be impossible for me.

 

Would've bored me to death, I love working with my hands. I love the satisfaction of going to bed tired because I worked myself hard....

 

hahaha that could've been turned into something dirty...but I won't say a word :x
I just love drawing and writing. But for some reason....my hands cant do certain things. I can't do complex things like twist my fingers in certain ways or move my wrists in certain ways; its weird. I guess thats why I love drawing...cause my body refuses to let me!

 

lol.... I can see which direction it could've gone.... I wouldn't have mind at all.... I'm perverted all the time....

 

RiPA, I also majored in English and am currently employed as a Graphic Designer. 99% of what I'm doing for my day job was self taught through several years of experimentation, and I credit what formal education I've received to community college courses, which are ridiculously affordable and very informative. I'm still learning and have much to learn, and there are times I feel I missed out on a more regimented education in this particular discipline, but I know it's never too late to go back and be taught some more.

 

So do you like it? I don't want to go to school for art. I want a job I'll make money in. Since I love drawing and I love computers...why not combine the two? What's it like? Like, what do you do at your job? (Sorry for the questions! I'm curious now )

and as for you, Streak....If i try to be perverted...it comes out wrong. haha. I try to be funny, but my words don't come out very...right.

 

I love it. Working as a website designer for the past several years had come close to what I really wanted to be doing. My current position—graphic designer for a community hospital, producing informational and promotional brochures, pamphlets, reports, flyers, posters, advertisements and other publications—is what I've wanted to be doing all along. It's challenging to stay creative and fresh and come up with new ideas on a daily basis, because I don't want my work and products to get stale and start looking the same. But that challenge is definitely part of the fun.

 

I would love to do that! I really want to go graphic/web design and just plain advertising. It would be so much fun. I'm worried I would run out of ideas too, but like you said...the challenge is fun. . Thanks for letting me know!
Now I'm really excited to go back to school.

 

I got my BA in sociology, now I'm working on my MA in English. I currently make my living writing porn scripts. There's probably a connection there.

 

Am I doing what I trained to be? My performance and music skills were learned on the road and funded my training and early private psychotherapy practice, resourced by my first degree in Philosophy and Psychology then by post grad in teaching and education. Training psychotherapists and performers, and serving my client-load, became my bread and butter, funding my hunger for researching my art and science, and in recent years, my performance and recording activities, which have kept my work as a psychotherapist and trainer robust and current. This was never a childhood dream, just the life I lived and grew up in.

As for 'Do I enjoy it?' Working with people on the brink of their next steps; lust-crazed to become one with their potential? Like living in a locker room - thick with estrogen and testosterone before and during and after great endeavours? Well, Restless, shoulder to shoulder, sweating with someone in the direction of their desire all the way to hi five time, it is intravenous octane, and more than a little para-orgasmic.


Enough of me, now let's talk about you - your question about Web and Advertising:
My father lived and worked pre web. He taught, and was examiner of Graphic design and what would come to be known as 'multi media', at the Royal College of Art in London; he also had his private practice which, when I was a child, he'd let me help him with. He would have said that a well-designed (well presented and sequenced body of content) brochure would easily scale up to become a good billboard or TV ad; that as you become flexible in your skills of impactful expression and re-organisation of your own and others' ideas, they will transfer through all modalities. I believe your next steps will be to ask contemporary advertisers and web designers what they see to be similarities and differences, for those will be, I believe, your guiding lights as you modulate what I reckon to be skills you are already developing, as demonstrated in these early posts of yours.

 

i'm about 3-4 weeks into my junior year at college as an English major. They dont have a journalism major where i'm at so i figured that english was the next best thing. my advice would be to take something that you like (artsy stuff) and apply it to something you want to do outside of school (advertising). i would say that experience in a field does more for a resume than the formal education does. get out there and start building your experience. start making all the rookie mistakes now so that when you're fresh out of the gate, you'll already be lapping the competition

 

So Zen, basically...you're an overall therapist? Correct? When I was younger there were a bunch of things I wanted to be. First, a veterinarian but then I figured out I can't do that whole...putting animals to sleep thing. Or risk losing them to horrible injuries. Then in the fifth grade I started telling everyone I wanted to be a journalist because I loved to write. It took me all the way until Senior year to realize...that wasn't what I wanted. I think at some point between those years, I thought about being a therapist because I used to talk to my friends and give them advice on their problems. And they told me my advice was great! SO I thought, a therapist would be fun buuut I've come to learn...I get annoyed listening to other peoples problems after awhile. I know that may sound rude, but I have a lot of friends that are those type of people who complain about everything and everyone all the time. It gets depressing and annoying after awhile. :d

And EventHorizon, Do you like English? Which college do you go to? do you like it? When I thought I wanted to be a journalist, I applied to the local newspaper for internship. I thought it would help me get accepted into a good college; but they told me I was inexperienced. How do they expect me to GET experience? Ha.

 

i have a ph.d. in european history. i liked school a lot but reached a point of not being able to be a student any more. it wasn't a matter of learning or interest, but more a limit of toleration for the social context that is the classroom. but i didn't reach that point until i was writing my dissertation and sitting in on a post-colonial theory class for fun. and it wasn't the class itself, either. something just gave way.

i taught for about a decade. i also got involved in experimental music and found that my relation to theoretical work changed pretty radically as a result of immersion in sound. i didn't want to write standard academic sentences any more, and was tired to having to find Legitimate Authorities who made arguments about the world by way of x or y in order to write about x or y. i was--and still am--interested in what revolutionary politics might be or look like after the implosion of marxism--and in whether it any longer makes sense to think in terms of a revolution (a relic of the judeo-christian past, that, the inversion of all the positivist narratives of progress, so the same thing except upside-down)--but found that writing academic work lay at cross purposes with that.

critical/analytic sentences integrate anything and everything into a version of the dominant rationality. academic observers are expressions of that rationality. what exactly that means varies discipline to discipline (by frame of reference, by object of analysis, by social networks that legitimate both and the objects that cycle and recycle relations amongst those variables. so that legitimate different versions of the game)..but if you're interested in a political arrangement that's radically other---which is also necessarily a perceptual arrangement that's other (other being the interesting term)---then what sense does it make to continue working in a way that integrates everything back into what you're trying to move past?

so a few years ago, i quit teaching and started shifting direction, moving into what i guess you'd call experimental fiction, still working on sound stuff (on a break from it at the moment, but moving toward again) and trying to figure out a different space/different spaces to occupy. i kinda miss teaching, though. i enjoyed being a virus. sometimes i think about moving back into it. seems a good idea given that the whacked out fictions i'm making--which are getting out into the world these days---are unlikely to make me any money ever.

so am i working in the same field? yes and no.
would i change anything about the trajectory? probably not. i might have not acquired this habit of spraying myself with cash repellent in the morning, though. that stuff works like a charm. it's a real pain in the ass.

 

I work at a major university. I loved the start of this fall semester because of three things.

1: I got everything 100% during the summer. I haven't had a single support call yet.
2: The place is filled with college students. Statistically speaking, roughly half of them are college girls.
3: Because the fall semester starts when it's still summer, the aforementioned college girls are mostly wearing summer clothes. I assure you that this makes my walks through the concourse very pleasant.