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Hey /p/ I was wondering if any of you who do photography or any digital media type work as a living could give some insight on the career.
I'm 18 and have always had a love towards digital arts. Now that I see all my peers posting photos onto heir snapchats on move in day makes want to sign up for a university but I've been told going to a community college would be the best financial path. Or are for profit colleges like the art institute any good?
Would like to know how you guys started off?
How hard was it to get a good paying job?
Do you make enough to live a comfortable lifestyle?
And any other I formation you guys would be able to share
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Go to a community college or a community tech school if you wand a degree; go to something like AI or Full Sail if you want to go into debt.
The art school will probably have better equipment and maybe better teachers, but you're getting the same degree/qualifications at the end of the day.
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>>3133317
Did you go through a community college?
Pic is some stuff I shot my junior year
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>>3133314
Bumping with more old photos
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Isn't AI one of those schools being sued right now?
Don't go to school for photo. Go to school for business and develop your photography in your spare time if you want to be a photographer. Nobody is going to ask for your BFA, but they will ask for your portfolio.
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>>3133320
Ask for your money back.
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Go do business and art on the side, heck - do art as a main thing you'll always have the business schooling to guide yourself and fall back on.
Your art portfolio is worth more than an art diploma, but doesn't mean shit if work dries up in your area.
The best possible idea is to [nospoilersonp]take up a trade[/nospoilersonp]
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