What college did u go to and what did u study? 😄I’m trying to figure out what I wanna do with my life so I want to know what other people are doing or have done to see if I could also follow a similar path!
Thanks for the lovely question and so good to see someone thinking about what they want to achieve in life. 🥰
Uhhm, that's SO long ago!!! (+20 years)
So I studied Fine Arts and Art Education at the university in Cologne, Germany and finished the basic studies (3 years) before I realised that this sounds great but won't earn me money (my parents are quite conservative and wanted me to be someone with a steady income and it slowly made me lose motivation to continue. They themselves immigrated from the Mediterranean area to Germany and live that work hard culture).
That made me THEN switch to Philology (classical Roman, Greek, and medieval and modern German), history (focus on ancient with a lot of legends and mythology attached!!!).
Which led me to... Nothing. Arts study are a dying thing , unless you want to work as an artist full time or in a museum or lecturing yourself.
Fine arts helped me focus on all the mathematical stuff. Proportions, golden cut, perspective, colouring and 3D setup.
And now I work in a totally different area and do this as a hobby.
If you want to do something similar?
You can. It's a hard business. Digital art has taken over the majority of the world. People won't appreciate classical art anymore. It's history. So it depends what your heart tells you and what reality will offer you. With enough resilience - and you definitely need it - you can do it.
Plus, you need a good supporting system. I think if my past were different, I would have ended somewhere totally else.
But - you go and find out! Good 🤞🏼 luck!!