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By: Manda

Manda — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:55:43 +0000

I don’t want to taint any of your advice by adding reply comments to them, but I did want to send out a big thank you to all of you who took the time to comment on this post and help Debbie with her decision. It is clear that you put real thought behind your comments, and I’m sure that Debbie appreciates your professional advice.

There isn’t a better teacher than experience, but sometimes you can learn from somebody else’s experiences and save yourself from a lot of pain and trouble

Thank you all!!

By: Gen

Gen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:02:52 +0000

I agree with Manda – I graduated in 2008 with very strong ideas of freelancing straight off the bat. I was so eager to get out of retail sales that I quit my day job the week that I graduated. I was sustaining myself with the occasional show as a professional musician, and had two design clients at the time that came from networking in music, but I found it very tricky once those client’s works were completed to find new clients. My design skills were largely unproven and I was quickly beginning to find working alone very isolating. It wasn’t long before I started sending out resumes and folio work to places, and after a 5 month contract position which ended with me being ripped off and almost completely broke, I left and now work as a finishing artist in the graphics department for a large company, alongside a senior designer with over 20 years experience, and a photographer whom I am also learning product photography from on the job. I have learnt more about being a designer in 6 months than I did in a whole year, increased my skill base immensely, and now have a small group of clients that I also do freelance work for on the side.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:31:41 +0000

You can easily learn things when you are working with people that have lots of experiences on that specific field. Everybody here are right, it’s the best way to get experience too. Personally, I’m doing the same thing. As much as possible, I stay with these people even if I can work alone now and earn my own money.
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By: naveed

naveed — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:48:18 +0000

thank you so much for this great article so much informative and really well written

it has helped me alot too for finding my own ways

thanks once again
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