Hey all
I'm doing a fine art degree in September, and I have no idea what it is that I want at the end of it?
I kept on saying this whilst I was doing my foundation year (I managed to get a first so at least I know I am doing something right!) The tutors said 'just enjoy it'
Well I would if I was 18 and just straight from A-Levels, but I'm not, I'm going to be 30 in September and I still have not had a career as such.
Does anyone have a degree in fine art, and if so what are you doing career wise now?
Thank you in advance
:-)
2006-07-16 06:22:10 · 7 answers · asked by Amazing Magenta 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Well that's up to you really.
My friend (actually she's dead now) had a degree in fine art; she worked at Tesco and loved it.
You could use it and teach or work in any number of art related jobs. As they used to say on Blind Date ..... The choice is yours!
JJ.
2006-07-16 06:34:44 · answer #1 · answered by just_jen2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Enjoy your degree and find some other activity that pays enough to make ends meet, or find someone to marry who will provide you with economic security and allow you to devote yourself to the arts for their own sake, rather than a means to put pizza on the table and a roof above the couch. Arts and humanities degrees per se don't have much economic value, especially once the actual cost and the opportunity cost of earning the degree (and not having the time to make money and increase earnings potential by accumulating experience in the interim) is made part of the calculation.
2006-07-16 06:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by Faculty Rights Coalition 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont have a degree, but i completed a BTEC national diploma in fine art. people form my course have gone off to do several things with it, i was going to teach, which would mean ya do a year teaching certificate at uni first, but...its only a year!
it kinda depends what your strength is. if youre good at portraiture, advertise yourself to do paintings for people as wedding gifts or birthdays etc... just use your imagination....
how about body painting professionally? not crappy clown faces and such, but PROPER professional face/body art....?
graphic/web design? illustrating kids books? or just keep it as a hobby and do something else career wise ya dont have to use it....
2006-07-16 06:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by niccyford 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You make me sick ... and I know it is not your fault ...
but why are there so many people filling seats in colleges while deserving students cannot get in to these classes ...
You will find a use for it if you want to ... it cannot be handed to you on a stick ... and if it is ... you will still feel as you do now ...
find yourself then step into your life ... (see links)
2006-07-16 06:35:21 · answer #4 · answered by KnowSean 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Waste of a good education if you don't know what you are going to do with it. Most people research job possibilities before getting commited.
2006-07-16 06:34:35 · answer #5 · answered by ginatec2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could be an art teacher or get a job in a muesum.
2006-07-16 06:26:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear you learn to basket weave in such degrees!!
2006-07-16 06:35:58 · answer #7 · answered by littlebethan 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋