My career sucks...

Today I'm going to write about my career, more about of what I need to become a designer than the career itself.

As you know I'm studying Graphic Design in Universidad de Chile, Basically the skills any person needs is to be (at last) a bit creative, be objective about our own work and the most important is to have a lot of common sense. If you have these characteristic, then you can be a good designer. Personally I only have common sense and to be objective, but zero creativity, that’s why some kind of homework are so tedious and difficult to me, like when I have to design a logo or something like that, in the other hand my fort point is when I have to do Strategic design, involved more with marketing than graphic skills.

I think that there are some inborn qualities that you need, like I said before, creativity, but this one can be exercised, just like others like drawing ability, but there some qualities that any person must learn, like diagramming or drawing techniques.

The University in which I’m studying is the best one in Chile in this area, but has a few weak points, like infrastructure and lessons relevance, like graphic expression, is a very useful class but we only have two years of this class, and for me was just one because of first year, I had a teacher who was insane, a total waste of time and money, we should have that class from the first year till the last one.

I’m a bit worried about my working future, because of my poor graphic styles, I do not want to be always tired due to constant late nights of my life, I feel I'm getting older because of the demands of the career, and the working world is not much easier.

So in resume my career sucks, hope I can win the lottery or something like that.