Get A Real Education...

[Mydarklord]

DON'T go to college for animation, graphic design or any of this artsy stuff. It's pointless. The fact is, all these fields are highly competitive and so you have to be best of the best to even hope of landing a good job.

My advice is, get a real education. Like engineering, doctoros, lawyer and all that crap you think parent's feed you. Become a Doctor. Great pay and respectable job. That's worth way more than being a starving artist.

And don't give me the bullshit, im going to do what i love and it's not about the money. You can't do shit in this world without money, unless you want to be stuck living with your parent's for the rest of your life.

Discuss.

[FLAMBOYTHEIMPALER]

You aren't my dad, fuck you!

[Psil0]

You aren't my horse!!! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!

[kiljoy96]

I'm not going to do something I can't stand just for money. I'd rather be homeless.

Even though I think chemicals are fascinating and I would love to design new dru-er, medicine.

[FuckSandwich]

A lot of people would prefer a job that they love with just enough money to live on than to do a job they hate and have more money than they need.

[Firefoxelite1]

I do whaddi want!

[mushroomn]

It's not easy to become a doctor and not everyone can do it. Most other jobs require long tedious hours with little job security. The point is life has it's sucky parts and there's no correct way to do it.

[Squidbit]

You're not the boss of me.

[headphenomenon]

Pardon, but, hell no?

[1Kingfire1]

I kinda agree with OP, There's lots of well paid jobs in anything.

I think he means why not take education to a higher level.

Example:
Electronic Engineer, better paid then electrician - Not the same jobs, but similar interests

[Prinzy2]

A real education is working at a bar for 6 months then working as a taxi driver for 6 months. You learn a hell of a lot.

[CyanSandwich]

Fuck that. I'd rather do something I enjoy than go through years of tedious work that I'm not interested in so I can hopefully get a job doing work that I'm not interested in.

Imma live on NG ad earnings.

[zooos]

You act as if those jobs are highly competitive either? There are too many people in the world for jobs not to competitive, a job at Mcdonalds, especially lately, is just as competitive as a job as an animator.

[EmperorOfSwag]

lol @ people who rely on their choice of job to determine their path in life

complete mediocrity

[shrimpchris]

At 7/31/11 10:12 PM, sandwich-eater wrote: Fuck that. I'd rather do something I enjoy than go through years of tedious work that I'm not interested in so I can hopefully get a job doing work that I'm not interested in.

Imma live on NG ad earnings.

Yeah!

[Light]

At 7/31/11 09:50 PM, Mydarklord wrote: DON'T go to college for animation, graphic design or any of this artsy stuff. It's pointless. The fact is, all these fields are highly competitive and so you have to be best of the best to even hope of landing a good job.

Then one should aim to be the best or one of the best.

And I'd like you to substantiate your assertion here, please.

My advice is, get a real education.

How is aiming to get a less competitive job considered to be a "real education"?

Like engineering, doctoros, lawyer and all that crap you think parent's feed you. Become a Doctor. Great pay and respectable job. That's worth way more than being a starving artist.

Artists get paid a lot depending on what they specialize in.

And don't give me the bullshit, im going to do what i love and it's not about the money. You can't do shit in this world without money, unless you want to be stuck living with your parent's for the rest of your life.

Discuss.

Your points are horridly invalid.

[Malt-Shake]

At 7/31/11 09:50 PM, Mydarklord wrote: DON'T go to college for animation, graphic design or any of this artsy stuff. It's pointless. The fact is, all these fields are highly competitive and so you have to be best of the best to even hope of landing a good job.

My advice is, get a real education. Like engineering, doctors, lawyer and all that crap you think parent's feed you. Become a Doctor. Great pay and respectable job. That's worth way more than being a starving artist.

And don't give me the bullshit, im going to do what i love and it's not about the money. You can't do shit in this world without money, unless you want to be stuck living with your parent's for the rest of your life.

Discuss.

Don't do what you love. Don't just go for where the money is at either. Do what your good at and make an effort to get better at it. There is a career path for literally ANY job if enough effort is put into being good at it.

Be awesome working the cash register for McDonalds consistantly ===> Manager at McDonalds one day

Also, who the hell told you that getting a job as a doctor or lawyer was not competitive? There's hella competition just to get INTO THE SCHOOLS! You have to go head to head with thousands of other people just to be allowed to pay a hefty tuition to obtain the qualification to receive training for these supposedly lucrative jobs, which require you to spend a good portion of your pay on malpractice or insurance of some kind for any minor fuck up they might be responsible for.

Also, a lawyers entire JOB is to compete against their clients enemies, they're like mercenaries!

Some of the brokest motherfuckers I know are starving college graduates with math majors. The highest paid person I know dropped out of high school and knocks on doors for a living. She gets paid based on pure commission, but she makes about $40-50k a year because she's good at what she does, and consistently gets better at it.

So basically yeah, if you are gonna try to get a degree in some artsy thing because your in it for the money, don't do it. Also don't do it just to fulfill a dream, but if you are good at something, that means that it is the place that you are fit to compete, and it is the path you and your wallet would do well to follow.

[Nimble]

At 7/31/11 09:53 PM, Psil0 wrote: You aren't my horse!!! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!

what the fuck am i reading.

[Killer-DuK]

I'm gonna be an animator just like Charles Schultz.

[Mydarklord]

World still needs Janitors, that's where all you folks with no education comes in.

I'm not saying you should avoid Art career. I'm saying 99% of you will NEVER make it through. I know from experience. I have seen your kind of people in college. I can tell you right now, they are either unemployed living with their parents or doing odd jobs while paying for student loans. The very few that did get job is only LOCAL studios, where the pay is no better than working at Mcdonalds.

So go ahead, do what you love. But wouldn't you rather make millions with a job you hate and then chill out on a beach somewhere and do what you love?

Engineering and becoming a Doctor are HIGHLY competitive. But they are RESPECTABLE and MONEY MAKING jobs. If I could go back, I'd do that as living and do art/animation as a hobby.

The only non-educated people that make money are that ones that started their own business. And you are NOT that person. You're all still young and so you won't understand yet.

So don't take out loans to go to college for media and design major. Get more useful education. Media, design, art, animation, all this could be learned online.

[poinl]

i would rather do something that i enjoy than be rich and hate a third of my day at work.

[kidd25]

At 7/31/11 11:15 PM, agustana wrote: I have a really strong opinion on everything you're saying but I don't feel like typing it all out.

let me help. HEY OP stfu, really nothing I MEAN NOTHING you said helps this world. Until you get a group of people that can sway the vote of where i live to ban that, then well screw off. I study animation, and no its not about the money, its about doing what i love. so yeah piss off troll.

[PePpEr828]

I LOVE the offer, but I'm not old enough.

[LocoJoe]

I hate people so why the hell do you think I want to be a doctor and help people? I'll just end up like the rest of my family anyways, working at some shit job making minimum wage and living like a peasant.

[SouthAsian]

At 7/31/11 09:52 PM, FLAMBOYTHEIMPALER wrote: You aren't my dad, fuck you!

I laughed.

[Narusegawa]

Well then I might just become a doctoros instead!

[MushookieMan]

At 7/31/11 09:53 PM, kiljoy96 wrote: I'm not going to do something I can't stand just for money. I'd rather be homeless.

I know, right? I'm not exactly up for a soulless void of existence just because OP says so. Fuck that.

[Smittytheghost]

Get off my ass, Mom! Go make me a sammich and adopt me a 16 year old sister!!!