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So how does a 30-year old with a formal education in business and a degree in marketing become qualified to be a Graphic Designer in our company? The answer is a good plan, a little luck and a lot of hard work.

First, while a junior in college, one would need to obtain a "starter" position, perhaps as a mailroom courier in a large and successful, full-service advertising agency, like GSD&M Advertising in Austin, Texas. After a year of paying your dues, learning how the agency runs, and making friends, apply for a transfer to an account team that works with a fun client like Southwest Airlines. Work your ass off though, because the following semester you will need to apply for a transfer to the New Business Department. It will be longer hours and harder work, but New Business is the driving force behind the agency and you will need to develop contacts in that department.

The following semester (with a fantastic recommendation from a V.P. in New Biz) transfer to the IT department. I know you must be thinking, "why the IT department?", but this is the short path to fast growth potential and the key to becoming a famous Graphic Designer. If you don’t have very much experience with computers, then work harder. By your second semester with IT, they will have enough faith in you to start and run the IT helpdesk.

After graduation, they will hire you on full-time as an IT Analyst and you will manage the helpdesk and a few supporting interns. After a few months as a real employee, you will need a little bit of luck and will need to be in the right place at the right time. New Business will have moved from making pitches with handwritten charts and overheads to using a computer projector and a program called PowerPoint. The partners and New Business senior staff will be a bit on the computer-illiterate side and will feel more comfortable with an IT staffer in the room during all the pitches. The lady who has been creating the PowerPoint and traveling with the team up until this point will get promoted to V.P. of IT and (with any luck) pass the New Business torch to you.

Like I said before, New Business is the driving force behind the agency, and everyone wants to help the New Business effort. Now that helping you means helping New Business, you are going to the best training and education from the agency's best illustrators, art directors and webmasters.

Please see Presentation Templates, Layout & Design Work and my Photo Gallery to see a few of the marketing communications created by the Graphic Designer who got started in the design business via this uncommon path.

Email: jason_c_hughes@yahoo.com

Address: 9001 Gary Place
              Indianapolis, IN 46256
              USA

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