Starting Out
I am finding that it is hard to find a Graphics Design job without any experience. I have a portfolio and I’m working on it to improve it. I have a little freelance experience, but not enough to show for. I am limited to what I can do right now because of the job I have. I work in a reprographics/print room of an oil and gas company that has a graphics department and I am not allowed to reach out to the other employees for freelance work. I was going to interview with the graphics department and show the manager my portfolio when the company got bought by someone else that is getting rid of the graphics department altogether. A few of the employees that know what I was going to school for and has left the company has asked me to do a few things here and there, but again nothing to show for.
I have joined some of the freelance sites like Fiverr, Freelancer, Moonlighting, Upwork and 99Designs. I also have an Etsy, WIX and Zazzle page, but nothing is working. The difference between the Etsy, WIX and Zazzle pages verses the freelance pages is that you don’t have to bid on a job. With the freelance sites you have to bid on the job trying to underbid the others to get the job while trying to calculate the work and your time to charge for and hope the person or company picks you to do the job. All in all, I will continue to work towards what I want and eventually get to where I want to be.
