I graduated from college in 2004 as an Administrative Assistant (specializing in Legal and Medical). Though I can't imagine myself doing that for the rest of my life, part of the two year degree was in Desktop Publishing.
I fell in love with it. I could start and hours would fly by and I wouldn't even notice. Oh, I loved every second of it. I got to be very creative, and I started to figure out how to alter images and things the way I wanted in Paintshop. I haven't learned how to create some of those beautiful graphics you see (like the ones advertising for computer games and the like), but I can take any free image that looks remotely like what I want and alter it to be exactly what I'm seeing in my head.
I'm very good at this. In college, I got straight A's in any course remotely related to this. Or above 3.8/90% depending on your scoring methods.
I would LOVE to do this for a living. No, not working at Kinkos or whatever with stock images making $10 an hour. No, I want more than that.
And I want to be my own boss.
The thing is, I've mentioned this idea to a few people (admittedly, not people that would be interested in using these services), and they seemed kind of... "well anyone can do that", and blew me off. My husband is scared of how bad any business can fail.
What do you think of this idea? Or is it that any business/person would just ignore that and go straight to the stock images that would come out of Staples.
Yes, I know that final approval would need to come from the client so I can't create just whatever comes in my head.
Do you think this is not a valid idea for the second decade of the century?
I know Microsoft Office and Corel very well. My printer isn't very good but I'm willing to buy a much better one. I do admit that I need to upgrade my photoshop and paintshop.
I fell in love with it. I could start and hours would fly by and I wouldn't even notice. Oh, I loved every second of it. I got to be very creative, and I started to figure out how to alter images and things the way I wanted in Paintshop. I haven't learned how to create some of those beautiful graphics you see (like the ones advertising for computer games and the like), but I can take any free image that looks remotely like what I want and alter it to be exactly what I'm seeing in my head.
I'm very good at this. In college, I got straight A's in any course remotely related to this. Or above 3.8/90% depending on your scoring methods.
I would LOVE to do this for a living. No, not working at Kinkos or whatever with stock images making $10 an hour. No, I want more than that.
And I want to be my own boss.
The thing is, I've mentioned this idea to a few people (admittedly, not people that would be interested in using these services), and they seemed kind of... "well anyone can do that", and blew me off. My husband is scared of how bad any business can fail.
What do you think of this idea? Or is it that any business/person would just ignore that and go straight to the stock images that would come out of Staples.
Yes, I know that final approval would need to come from the client so I can't create just whatever comes in my head.
Do you think this is not a valid idea for the second decade of the century?
I know Microsoft Office and Corel very well. My printer isn't very good but I'm willing to buy a much better one. I do admit that I need to upgrade my photoshop and paintshop.
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