getting a design job in amsterdam
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Don't go into freelance, that's a fucking nightmare scanario if you just left school. As some pointed out, internship is one of the best way to get a foot in the door. Some people are lucky because they get all the media attention (thanks to the media), they can get away with being a freelance. Bear in mind that it is in the interest of mags out there to publish work that have already been published elsewhere, because in a way they will sell more copies. They jump on the hype-wagon, as i like to call it. Anyway I might not have been so helpful here but good luck to you. We've all been there. I remember graduating, then going around showing my work. When you showed some corporate type of work they would ask to see some sketchbook work, when you showed sketchbook work they would ask to see some commercial work. When you showed some corporate+funky illustration, they would ask you what you preferred.
At the end of the day, you want to show how flexible you are and from my own experience, being talented and flexible in your work is not enough. I still don't get it.