More graduates take low skilled jobs - a fifth still unemployed

[ZombieDawgs]

[QUOTE=KorJax;35024955]Honestly you should never get an Art Degree with the expectation that you'll be getting an art job. Art degrees are excellent however for "related" fields that you already practice and are experienced in your own time.

Such as, if you model, an art degree is useful if you can't afford a private school speciifcally for modeling and such. Not only will you learn relevant knowledge that will make your personal practice better, but you'll get a degree that is directly relevant to your knowledge.

A graphic design degree is the same. If you love doing graphic design on your own, freelance/volunteer design work, etc but your school doesn't have a design department, an art degree is extremely useful at developing your skills even better and will give you an artistic edge (both in skill and qualifications) over other designers looking for freelance work or studio jobs. A nice chunk of my design teachers had art degrees for example.

But for actually doing traditional art as your carreer? You'll almost never find a job. The closest thing you can expect would be to get a job as a concept artist, but even then those are mostly seasonal/contracted positions, and those are still digital focused. If you are someone who is a traditional artist only, you should only get a degree in art if you have a lot of money to blow, want to enrich your life/skills from that field, and already are set job-wise with something else. It's a nice "supplimentary" degree for those who love art. Part of the reason why you'll almost always have someone older (30's-40's) in your art classes.[/QUOTE]

Anyone that thinks you can have a job as a tradition artist is a bit misguided, as you said, and I'm just repeating what you said but yeah - you don't study art to do tradition art, but there are still loads of jobs you can do, even at a stretch an architectural designer or something along those lines.

[Used Car Salesm]

I'm telling you guys, student loans are the next big financial crisis. $15 an hour can not repay $50,000 in student loan debt.