I really need another career.

showcase your portfolio, upgrade your skill
static design -> motion design
2D design -> 3D design
3 months work time -> 1 month
do tiktok, hop in the latest #fyp consumables but make sure to include your own OC alongside the trend hopping.

poo poo in the looo

>>456979
that picture is killing me

>>456979
Easy path is
>Internship in a big company with loads of clients
>Get a job
>Network
>Leave job
>Freelance to the max

Hard path is :
>Get no internship
>Have no clue how the market works
>Try shitty graphic work for small business that pay like shit
>Repeat
>Repeat
>Repeat
>Stop your graphic design career

>>456979
be friends with sales people
they'll get you all the startup connections whether you want it or not

I wish agents for graphic / web designers were more of a thing.

>>457043
Cracka, the most popular marketplace geared towards your kind is well known for selling $5 service. Get a grip on reality.

>>457079
dont hang out in the gutter

>>457043
It's called sales, most firms have such a department.

>>457096
I mean for individuals.

Funny how cracka/cracker messages don't get deleted but when I wrote poojeet it got removed soon after.

>>456986
GET FUCKED

>>456979
As an employer:
why in the world would anyone put their photo on an ad for services that do not require your face?
first of all, you're ugly, we are all ugly. There is a 1% chance that 0.000001% of the employers looking at your ad will find you attractive or friendly to look at. Instead use your graphic design skills and create something aesthetically pleasing, beautiful or eye catching as your ad. Let your work speak for you.

Photos on ads, Resumes, portfolios, and business cards are CRINGE AF. it comes off as borderline narcissistic.
Again, as an employer, I hire at least 1-2 graphic artists a month to do designs, logos, ads, etc...And I cannot highlight enough how off-putting it is to see a photo with your presentation...this is 2000's type of vibe and it makes you look outdated.

>>457450
Cuz i need to hire someone who can perfectly integrate stock photos into graphics in which they are unnecessary and distracting

>go into illustration as a career choice
>had some clients, but discover the industry is saturated and competitive as fuck
>try to go into storyboarding
>enjoy it, but it’s also a competitive field and learn the animation industry is rough
>go back to school to learn graphic design
>can only get work as a “production artist”
>discover this field is also saturated and competitive as fuck

I’ve worked full time as mostly a production artist for content-production agencies, but I got laid off from my last job 3 months ago and I’m struggling to find something new. I really don’t enjoy coding/programming (I feel like I have dyslexia looking at html) and motion graphics (too time consuming), but I’m wondering if I need to if it helps me get employed

I really don’t know what to do anymore

I have a small client base, entirely through client referrals
The work advertises itself
I don't claim credit for the work publicly
I don't have an agency
I don't have socials
I don't have a website
I don't have a portfolio
Just be one of the best in the world at something

>>457872
so you are one of the best in the world?
whoah.

>>457722
that sounds like good fun work
i hope things come together for you

maybe find a writer type and bust out some fun super rough story boards to post somewhere

>>457872
what would you charge for a book cover design?

>>456988
This

>>457876
There's AI, no need to interact with fiverr-slaves.

>>457885
go huff your farts cunt face
if my man says hes good, i want to talk to him
you on the other hand can fuck off

>>457886
He doesn't have a portfolio. That's how good of a designer he is. SAAAAR, do not redeem the portfolio! World-star designer right there.

>>457894
fart huffer

Let me guess—you need more?

you can learn marketing and then get yourself out in the public eye or whoever you want to be doing graphics for, have to learn business skills and such.

>>456979
i surf social media for businesses that i think would benefit from my products and message them telling them im a designer for hire. i also have business cards and go to businesses in the area and ask to talk to the owner and do the social media thing in person

>>457027
I've only worked at one agency and it was a marketing agency. Rest of my experience has been the shitty small business freelance, or being the in-house graphic (and web dev) person.

At the marketing agency I worked at, everything was heavily siloed. I received assignments. I never saw any steps of the business side of things, how they find clients, how they negotiate with them, contracts, etc.