Choosing the right career path
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- ryanisabanana
I recently graduated from art school with a graphic design degree. Since then I've changed cities and work freelance for an advertising agency that has kept me pretty busy. I would like to continue to work in the advertising industry or work for a graphic design firm. The other day I was offered an inhouse job at a fortune 500 insurance company. If I took the job would it steer me down the wrong career path?
- moamoa0
yes.
- gentleman0
yes
- gentleman0
wait.what?
- gentleman0
i just read your screen name over and over again.
- barbara0
10-15 years from now it might be a footnote. you'll learn from every opportunity, bad or good experience. do as you feel.
- instrmntl0
i did freelance for a company that worked for pharmaceutical companies. that was awful. insurance sounds even worse!
- studderine0
do it, get the experience, get it on your resume.
- gentleman0
record yourself saying your screen name and post a link on this thread.
please
- funkage0
Like barbara has said, follow your gut, and you'll learn from the experience.
Just know when to bail.
- cannonball0
Inhouse work is only a good opportunity when you know how to stand up for yourself and explain your work effectively. Otherwise you'll just end up being a vector for someone else's ideas who doesn't know photoshop.
- gentleman0
is this you
- dyspl0
"Choosing the right career path"
avoid any career involing the terms "graphic" or "design"
it's still time.
- epete220
gain all the advertising agency experience you can right now. Down the road you will be sick of but you will feel much more enlightened and educated about the industry.
- 23kon0
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stay freelance or stay at an advertising or creative company.
an inhouse job might pay well, but its boring as shit! its the same guidelines/restrictions you have to follow all the time and its all the same branding. week after week after week. it will TRULY drain any creativeness from you.
it could be the coolest company or brand in the world that you are working inhouse at and it would STILL do your head in and drain you having to do the same shit over and over.
So id presume that working inhouse for an insurance company would just bring about that drain even quicker.Depends on your situation mate, if you need the money then stick the insurance one for a wee while.
BUT you'll learn more (esp being a newbie outta college) working within a more creative company where you can learn and bounce ideas off your peers. You aint going to get that kind of creative interaction at a insurance company.
thats my tuppence
