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- fargo0
Since I left college way back when I designed flyers, posters, record sleeves, did work for some 'cool' clients, shit loads of logos, gained extensive knowledge about pricing jobs, handling clients and the print process. Then I decided to gt a 'proper' job in an agency so I coud actually earn some money but unfortunately because my folio was chock full of all the above (nice work as well even though I say so myself) they wouldn't look at me which I thought was discriminant! A lot of it was and fortunately I got a break with a good company and have learned even more than I had before and to be honest I can see why, looking from the inside why it's so hard to get a job with a folio like that. All I can say is stick at it and try to get freelance work on the bread and butter jobs at the same time (annual reports and the like.) It will help immensely if you can 'prove' you can do the jobs they are specifically looking to see if you can do. On that note, learning to do those jobs nicely and creatively is, to be honest, a different discipline and does need to be shown in your folio if you can.