[quote name='LinkinPrime']Was a lot of school work involved? How long have you done it? How are the hours and pay?
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About 3 years of schooling but I could always go back and learn some more things. The problem I have is that I am mostly focused on print design and I have some basic web design knowledge. I do brochures, advertisements and trade show booth graphics. I also do direct mail and email campaigns as well to our customers.
I use the following software on the job: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark, Corel Draw, Dreamweaver, Power Point for sales presentations, Adobe Acrobat.
I also have knowledge and schooling of some 3D modeling very hard stuff!! Flash, Shockwave, Video Editing in Adobe Premiere and After Affects.
We outsourced our web site and I make basic HTML changes and updates to the web site. I did the initial design layout for the site but someone else programmed it because I just do not have time to build a site as complicated and knowledge of database programming for our product catalog.
I would like to learn some more java and database programming.
I've taken some flash and shockwave design work too but have never really used it since school and would probably take me some time to get familiar with it again.
I would like to get some more web design schooling but I really do not want to go back to night school and work full time again. I did that for three years.
I've been in the field for about 6 years now. I work full time 8 hours a day but sometimes longer if there is a large project. I am salary employee and I make the average graphic design salary. I rather not say how much I make on the forum but I could talk about it more online when we play chromehounds.