Comment Re:Reasons for Grad School (Score 1) 369
My exact same reason. I had been wandering from job to job until I started doing some work in multimedia and computer graphics. Pretty enjoyable, I thought, so I let my clients go, rented out my home and moved into a friend's attic, and attended a full-time, specialized CG program.
Upon finishing my coursework, I moved immediately to Los Angeles and after a brief internship, became a CG developer for a medium-sized visual effects studio. But I wanted to work on film, not episodics. So a few months ago, I moved again; this time to New Zealand....and I couldn't be happier.
I never thought I'd find anything that I was good at AND liked. And when I did find it, graduate school loans, leaving friends and family, all that stuff, felt like a small price to pay. And now I've got visitors booked for till the New Year. ;)
In the end, I just didn't be a little old lady who just simply got by. That fate doesn't exist for me anymore. Now I've joined the tribe of wandering CG developers. If I don't screw up and work really hard, I'll be able to work anywhere I want. Life is now on my terms. And none of this would have been possible unless I had gone to graduate school.
Upon finishing my coursework, I moved immediately to Los Angeles and after a brief internship, became a CG developer for a medium-sized visual effects studio. But I wanted to work on film, not episodics. So a few months ago, I moved again; this time to New Zealand....and I couldn't be happier.
I never thought I'd find anything that I was good at AND liked. And when I did find it, graduate school loans, leaving friends and family, all that stuff, felt like a small price to pay. And now I've got visitors booked for till the New Year.
In the end, I just didn't be a little old lady who just simply got by. That fate doesn't exist for me anymore. Now I've joined the tribe of wandering CG developers. If I don't screw up and work really hard, I'll be able to work anywhere I want. Life is now on my terms. And none of this would have been possible unless I had gone to graduate school.
