If you are interested in earning your graphic design degree or already have it, than you should be interested in where you can use your graphic degree to get a job! First of all, contrary to popular believe, once you have a job in a field, you can change fields quite easily if you get bored or decide you don’t like the field. So, don’t worry about making something permanent, just relax and pick the field that most interests you at the moment. Here are five career paths you can choose with your graphic design degree!

Advertising

Working as an advertising designer can be quite lucrative if you work for the right company. Did you know that some advertising designers earn as much as $60,000 per year!  Working in advertising requires you to be very creative, usually hold at least a bachelor degree and to be familiar with the techniques for translating communication into simple lines of text and images! Did you know that while you are working with your bachelor degree, you can earn a master degree online while still gaining work experience?

Entertainment

The entertainment business has always circled around Hollywood and with a graphic design degree; you can work in it to! Whether its designing book, magazine, movie covers or designing advertisements for entertainment media, the entertainment business and publishing offer more jobs to graphic designers than any other single market so; chances are; this is where you will be working! In most cases, your median salary will be $30,000 to $40,000 per year!

Design

Working in design usually means creating graphic images, company logos, brochures and packaging images and usually requires that a graphic designer work in a team or studio of several or a few hundred other designers.  Working here you should be prepared to create content for printing, web use and even as demos!

Marketing

Marketing is different from advertisement in that you will create brochures, advertising campaigns, promotional material such as displays, flyers, catalogs, training materials, and etc. While working here does not really allow a lot of excitement into your design life, it will create a very steady and reliable work environment

Freelance

Freelancing is perhaps one of the most exciting paths you can take because it relies on you finding and doing the jobs that you would like to do. While freelancing you can work in any career path, do any type of graphic design and at any pay scale. Freelancing provides freedom, the ability to move around and in many cases, the opportunity to work from home.