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Hello ExistentialistCat,
This is TheFaustianMan, with a reply to your careers quandry.
Alright, you were where I was long long long time ago.
Right now with the current economy, I believe that
selling crack might not be that good of an idea.
I don't know where the other guy is from, but where I'm from,
selling crack, you get $5 per bag you sell,
so let's say you sell about 100 bags a week,
that's about $500 a week, it's about a grand every 2 weeks.
You're probably making a little less than $30,000 with no health care,
and you can go to jail for that for a pretty long time, I hear.
So, you're probably better off getting a regular job.
So for regular jobs,
it looks like you're leaning towards something with graphic design or something.
There's two routes you can take, two routes,
alright, first one, in house, right?
Cuz you don't want to work on your own.
In house.
In house graphic designers tend to have more freedom than working at an agency.
You'll have actually, you'll shoulder alot more responsibility
and be more in the role of both creative director and designer.
And they pay pretty well.
Alright, in an agency, working in an agency is a nightmare as a graphic designer.
Everybody wants to get there, and when they get there
most of the time they realize it might have been a mistake.
Pretty much, you bill just like an attorney would,
and you make minor changes when account services tell you.
You have very little creative control and you'll have very little creative input,
as opposed to what you would have in house.
Now what I think is you're going to have a very difficult time depending on where you are.
Finding a job in design, let's say graphic design,
without any experience - I don't know if you have any experience or not.
Um, my advice to you is, stay away entirely from
advertising and graphic design.
Go into something, now I know this might seem out there,
get a job, alright? A job that pays.
Regardless of what it is.
Alot of people are going to be competing and taking less paying jobs.
Find a job, and when things get better, find a higher paying job.
Even if you don't like what you are doing, stick with it.
If it pays alot of money okay?
Stick with it, even if you hate it.
Just for a little while.
5-7 years.
It may sound like a long time, but it really isn't.
Stick with it.
Then when you get enough money saved, and put away,
then you're free to follow whatever you want.
Do it the other way and try to start out as,
let's say a starving artist at first or, you know,
as a designer or something like that at first,
is much more difficult,
and you'll find that alot of people graduating school
are actually going back to school to become attorneys.
That's usually what happens at times like this.
So best of luck to you, my advice to you is,
find the money, and then be happy on the side.
That kind of thing.
Best of luck to you.