Topic: Graphic or Tech

I am at a great divergence in my life regaurding this. I am a great computer technician. no I don't know everything or pretend to but I do enjoy it. I also love to do graphics. I started with Corel 4 found photoshop and got a book and found Doc's tutorials.

My current job although it uses my technical skills sucks. If you have a US Robitocs Modem and you call for support you will possibly talk to me, especially if it is a ISDN modem the new cable modem or any of the new non-3com networking products. What sucks? It gets old fixing peoples problems on the phone everyday. Esppecially when you are helping techs getting paid $40 buck and hour who call you at $far less an hour to fix their problem. The company (and I don't mean USR) has no realistic room to move up so I must move on. That part is obvious.

My dilema Graphics or Technical. Ya in a perfect world I might can do both and $ for more education comes to play in both but what can I better make a living at. There is a comunty collage that has a multimedia and design course, I by course I don't mean 1 class, it seems to be a complete deal ( http://www.utahcollege.com/ ) but I may have to quit work all together to make it happen. Tech schools may have some better schedules and there are a billion of them but I think I prefferd univ. extension or online courses. Neither are easy and i don't expect you guys to make my decision for me but input always helps.

I don't think this is a question for us.

For every good tech person out there, there are 54 designers. So, the money will be better in the tech land. If you're really good at design, though, you can beat out any tech man. Which do you like more? Pick that one.


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Yah, I see a choice in your furure here, and it's not as simple as it appears. You have to ask yourself, what *really* makes you happiest? If it's something that's not precisely work, then perhaps a good tech job with a bunch of MS certificates could give you the money to do what you want, outside of work. Doing graphic design for a living is a hard road, either you'll be "one of the herd", in which case the pay is low and the jobs not very rewarding, or you're the super guru making nice bucks, typically only two options for you.

I'm making this decision right now, I can make more as the Design guru, but it might be nice to make less doing tech stuff and have more time and energy at home for my own projects. (I'm back in "get a job" mode myself now, bummer.) Whatever you decide, shoot for what will make you happiest, you can make a living at either.

Your pal, -doc-