Design B.S.

In a matter of a few short quarters I will be the mostly proud recipient of a Bachelor’s of Science in Graphic Design. Why not a BA, I’m not entirely sure, but as I understand it, it won’t amount to very much in the grand scheme of things. Why?

No matter how much better the economy is doing, and for whatever reason it didn’t make many waves but hey, we took in more money than we were spending not that long ago, actually like less than a month or something… maybe? Nobody knows? Great. Perfect. Apparently good news is hardly ever newsworthy.

But the reality is, enough people are pumping the whole the economy is still in shambles story, and being that our economy is largely based on our faith in that money, it’s really not where it should be. (Though when is it ever? I mean really? Watch old sit-coms, everybody bitches about the economy. It’s never ending).

Furthermore, because during the worst part of the recession everyone was laid off pretty much universally the people who are now getting jobs are the people who were high up in their field to begin with. Nobody wants a graphic designer just out of college. You need at least two years experience under your belt and how the hell you can even find that is a complete mystery. Moreover, technology changes so rapidly that literally by the time I graduate in roughly 3 quarters, everything I’ve been taught will be obsolete because graphic designers are expected to be more web/mobile centric and that isn’t even what I’m being taught. So what’s a designer to do? Go back to school and learn an entirely new area of design that leans heavily on web and mobile. Get a masters and hope that that will be enough to actually just begin to get my foot in the door, but with still no experience behind me, I suspect even that won’t entirely cut it.

And to make it all just a million times better, I’m way to exhausted for all this ish.