Landing a Job

Two Hundred Fifty Ninth Post: Landing a Job

Wild Storm Comics has some sort of contest. I don’t know the specifics. But that is how artist J. Scott Campbell was discovered. He saw an ad in Wild Storm #2 asking to applicants to send in a sample of their work. He did and started his career in professional comics.

I still want to know how to land a art or designing job. I don’t have the talent to be a comic artist, but maybe something small like designing small web sites. I have been searching through the numerous contest trying to find one that will fit my skills and that I want to spend the required hard work to complete.

A lot of time is spent just learning a skill either through school or self study it isn’t until you find a contest or job that you have the fun of using your skills. The right contest is harder to find than first thought. Finding it before the deadline or when there is time to work on it is also a problem. But the same question remains: How do you get that dream job? How?

I have no clue. Although working on your skills building a portfolio is a good start. Being an amateur has some benefits. And being an amateur is how everyone starts. Einstein worked at a patent office in Germany. He was still working on his theories, however it took him some time to earn that reputation of a brilliant, theoretical physicist. So until you too are discovered as one of the great talents in your field... May the Creative Force be with You