How do I break into the graphic design field at a younger age?

>>310888
>Do some art
>Come up with shitty but artistic portfolio
>walk into design firm/sign shop
>request job
>say I know nothing but I know this is what i wanna do with my life give me chance
>boom, job.

Thats what i did at 17. Been freelancing for a while now since i felt the pay wasnt good enough anywhere i went. 24 now btw

>>310912
How's the pay now? Can you survive?

>>310917
Well its supporting my wife and son so...

>>310950
Are you divorced or did you left them in their third world country?

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maybe learn web development along, because you actually have to be exceptional in some way (not necessarily in terms of effort and difficulty, just doing something different well) and have an intuition to do exactly the right thing in the right time without much of a thought to really succeed in graphic design but everyone needs web developer monkeys, especially backend ones

https://paste2.org/bJY242mb
(can't be arsed to translate from latvian, but i've wroten general order of things there wannabe webdev should check out)

here are some web dev resources
https://mega.nz/#F!55lUzbaK!dKQFK01RcQitE7GkRB1ukQ

that said, here are some essential general graphic design reading materials no matter what commercial design field you take
https://mega.nz/#F!YkNhRLIL!cx4C_hWsuVOW-8K7O8MLtg

i'm not saying you shouldn't practice visual design, it can go hand in hand well with development work and is essential for frontend development, but dev alone means you have a solid way to put bread on the table

>>310958
They're stuck somewhere in europe. I just send em $5 a month. Apparently they are rich down there cause of it.

>>310888
go to school
build a huge body of work
apply for an internship
work really hard
get a job