Necro'd!
Basically an account manager for several client accounts. Managed all their paid media. Young crowd, lots of hours, lots of stress, lots of drinking (sometimes at work). Some people love it but I felt like shit.
I can't speak so much for the graphic design side of things. My guess is that it would probably be very boring at the entry / lower levels and you'd be spending a lot of time creating 1000s of banners. Like another guy mentioned the rate of upward mobility can be fast though, so maybe before too long you'd be coming up with your own creative concepts and pitching them to a creative director or to clients directly.
I've connected with several people locally who manage web projects that are happy to subcontract the development side of things to me, which is pretty ideal. I'm going to continue to try to find more relationships with web designers, project managers, and creative agencies (funny right) for straight up development work. The small business website market in my city is ridiculously saturated and it's been much easier to get higher paying work with less client management headaches this way.
So if all continues to go this way I may not be out on the street after all, and that feels really good.
Once my freelance biz pipeline stabilizes more I'm going to start my own long term site building projects. The goal is to have income from my own assets bringing in enough to live on within a year, hopefully sooner.
Basically an account manager for several client accounts. Managed all their paid media. Young crowd, lots of hours, lots of stress, lots of drinking (sometimes at work). Some people love it but I felt like shit.
I can't speak so much for the graphic design side of things. My guess is that it would probably be very boring at the entry / lower levels and you'd be spending a lot of time creating 1000s of banners. Like another guy mentioned the rate of upward mobility can be fast though, so maybe before too long you'd be coming up with your own creative concepts and pitching them to a creative director or to clients directly.
I've connected with several people locally who manage web projects that are happy to subcontract the development side of things to me, which is pretty ideal. I'm going to continue to try to find more relationships with web designers, project managers, and creative agencies (funny right) for straight up development work. The small business website market in my city is ridiculously saturated and it's been much easier to get higher paying work with less client management headaches this way.
So if all continues to go this way I may not be out on the street after all, and that feels really good.
Once my freelance biz pipeline stabilizes more I'm going to start my own long term site building projects. The goal is to have income from my own assets bringing in enough to live on within a year, hopefully sooner.
just be motivated and keep working till u get there
