Well, my name is Ashley. I'm a Junior at UW-Whitewater and double majoring with Multimedia Digital Arts and Advertising. I started college with intentions of being a business major, emphasizing in Operations Management. However, once I've dipped my feet into some business classes my freshman year, I realized it was absolutely not for me. This left me frazzled, forcing me to ask myself "what should I do with my life?" I've always had a deep passion for art and knew that it was my happy place. But, I also have always had a deep passion for money. So that left a problem. Starving artists aren't called starving artists for nothing. After pondering all my options, my mom suggested for me to be a multimedia major, as technology is on the rise and it would be an indemand field. I figured why not, I'll try it out and once I took a couple classes, I knew it was the major for me. After a year of taking classes within my new field, I figured Advertising would be a great degree to correspond with Multimedia.
Throughout my young life, I have changed so many ideas on what I wanted to do when I grew up, ranging from acting to medicine, not knowing what was meant for me. Now that I'm older, I feel that I am so lucky to have finally figured out what I wanted to do early on within my college career rather than wasting time on a field that I wasn't passionate about. Have you ever felt stuck with what you wanted to do with your life?
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I am glad to hear that you are following your passion in life. It can only help you in the long run. It took me way too long to figure that out. As for artists makng money, I think people like yourself who are creative have a great opportunity to do freelance work and make real money on the side doing jobs for clients.
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If you are doing work for a client why not record your process and explain the process by talking over the video showing people how to use the adobe suites. People would come to you as the expert and maybe even hire you for projects that they cant do.
If you want to look professional to clients check out this company called ClientShow that can help you do that:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2166839
Lastly here is the link to that personal branding site called flavors.me
Hey Ashley! I too am a double major in Advertising and Multimedia Design and don’t worry you are not alone! Many times I sit and wonder where am I going in life, is this the right path, am I doing the right thing? Its so great that you found out early that business was not for you, that is kind of how I felt after taking a marketing class…Art has always been my passion and I love working with other people hence the creative field in advertising and multimedia your mom is dead on with technology on the rise, its something that we need to know and will be better off if we do I hope you are liking things so far! What would you like to do in the long run with it?
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