daniel_b_0506
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I'm 22 y/o and now working as graphic designer position with small company, currently salary RM2.4k, and graduated with diploma level. Also having debts to clear. ( Loan and PTPTN )
And I have confession to share and need your serious advice to courage me because I'm not happy with my current career.
Tbh I feel that I am not satisfying with my career because I have a lot of design skills that I wasn't fully mastered and the others that have been long time I'm interested to learn such as anime illustration and Japanese language. I did learning alone but very slow progress due to work with full-time job. (3 +/- hours per week).
I'm worrying that I did not continue to Degree level is a wrong choice, because now I'm working with a small company which is just only doing e-commerce thing. Not a good company and not worth with my growth career because bad management, and the designer jobscope is just take photo product from online, if not then take photo manually ( but less happening ) and design with template then reuse it, and upload product on e-commerce platform to sell. I feel this is NOT what graphic designer should do with this company because it makes me feel that fresh graduated secondary students with simply designing skills can do it too tbh. Also my company told me the notice period would be 3 months.
I decided to change job earlier and applied on big companies but when I interviewed with them and got rejected. Some said 3 months notice period is too long, some might feel my design and portfolio wasn't enough, and some thinks my doing with my current company is not worth their job.
I wasn't happy for myself, I feel my decision is wrong because I thought Diploma Of Graphic Design is enough for my career so I not continue to degree. When I seeing my friend who studying things the interested, I feel envy, a lot. Because the skills I wanted that I haven't achieve yet but friends are doing for archiving their skills. I want to study further too, I want to study Multimedia design instead of Graphic design this time (For having higher chance to get hired) but I have debts to pay... looking for college but tuition fee pretty high, makes me stress. And if having part-time Study makes me feel waste because take a very long time like 5-6 years to achieve degree level. I really hope I could have enough money to study alot to improve my skills.
I'd tried online course like Udemy Website but lack of time and independent because of working and hope that someone from virtual or physical class, could force me to study.
I really need someone give advices for guiding me. Go college for degree or self-learning? My thoughts above maybe wrong, and you can correct me with your opinion. I don't want to lead myself into wrong career.
Thank you for the time to read and sorry for error grammar.
And I have confession to share and need your serious advice to courage me because I'm not happy with my current career.
Tbh I feel that I am not satisfying with my career because I have a lot of design skills that I wasn't fully mastered and the others that have been long time I'm interested to learn such as anime illustration and Japanese language. I did learning alone but very slow progress due to work with full-time job. (3 +/- hours per week).
I'm worrying that I did not continue to Degree level is a wrong choice, because now I'm working with a small company which is just only doing e-commerce thing. Not a good company and not worth with my growth career because bad management, and the designer jobscope is just take photo product from online, if not then take photo manually ( but less happening ) and design with template then reuse it, and upload product on e-commerce platform to sell. I feel this is NOT what graphic designer should do with this company because it makes me feel that fresh graduated secondary students with simply designing skills can do it too tbh. Also my company told me the notice period would be 3 months.
I decided to change job earlier and applied on big companies but when I interviewed with them and got rejected. Some said 3 months notice period is too long, some might feel my design and portfolio wasn't enough, and some thinks my doing with my current company is not worth their job.
I wasn't happy for myself, I feel my decision is wrong because I thought Diploma Of Graphic Design is enough for my career so I not continue to degree. When I seeing my friend who studying things the interested, I feel envy, a lot. Because the skills I wanted that I haven't achieve yet but friends are doing for archiving their skills. I want to study further too, I want to study Multimedia design instead of Graphic design this time (For having higher chance to get hired) but I have debts to pay... looking for college but tuition fee pretty high, makes me stress. And if having part-time Study makes me feel waste because take a very long time like 5-6 years to achieve degree level. I really hope I could have enough money to study alot to improve my skills.
I'd tried online course like Udemy Website but lack of time and independent because of working and hope that someone from virtual or physical class, could force me to study.
I really need someone give advices for guiding me. Go college for degree or self-learning? My thoughts above maybe wrong, and you can correct me with your opinion. I don't want to lead myself into wrong career.
Thank you for the time to read and sorry for error grammar.