Putting Your Graphic Arts Degree to Good Use With Desktop Publishing Jobs
You have just put in your time at college and now you have this really fine degree hanging in a frame on the wall over your mantelpiece. You can sit back and enjoy the good life now. Oh, wait. You say you don’t have a mantelpiece… oh, ok. You say you don’t even have a wall. You live in a rented apartment where they won’t let you hang pictures and degrees on the walls. You didn’t even have the money to buy a frame yet because your paying off the student loans. Oh, this won’t do, won’t do at all. We have got to get you on the right course, my friend. That graphic arts degree is a gold mine.
Graphic Arts have often been maligned as a career students course, taken mainly for something to waste tuition money on as many people did not realize the value of the education these scholars were working towards. For the graphic arts student looking for an entry level job, few positions avail themselves better than that of desktop publishing.
Of all of the desktop publishing employees currently working about thirty five percent are working for newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers, with another twenty five percent working in the printing industry. This entry level job can be found without college degrees but for those without prior work experience the college education is preferred by employers.
This entry level position requires a keen eye for detail and aesthetic planning as well as good communication skills and a knowledge of assorted desktop publishing software. If you can master these things, then desktop publishing can provide a lucrative career that makes full use of your graphical arts degree.
