University is an experience In itself, you would think its sole
purpose is to give people an opportunity to have a better education and
possibly a job. I don’t know statistics but I think the percentage of people
that graduate and don’t end up doing a job that is related to their course is
higher than people that do. Why is this? Do people come to uni because they
have been pushed into it? Do they think it’s just the next step in higher
education or do they just want the joys of learning something new and meeting
new people and new experiences?
I look at university in a very black and white way, I want
to learn and I want a job at the end. I’m here because I want a better job in
an industry I want to be involved with and to do that I need this degree. I can’t
just walk into an interview with nothing to show but a smile so I’m here to
produce a decent portfolio that I can show to potential employers. I can
already say that end of the second year I have learnt so much in a quick space
of time, when I compare myself to last year I can really see the improvement
which I think is important. If you can’t see it yourself then what is the point
in being here. However I do think the rate of learning at uni in comparison to
the rate of learning within a job in the industry is very different. I feel
like working for a company there is a lot of help available as well as being a
lot more motivated as you’re being paid and granted I don’t exactly do as many
hours as I should be whilst at university.
Ultimately I want a decent job after the 3 years at university,
but that all depends on how much effort I put in. It worries me I haven’t found
a specific route I want to pursue as in what kind of artists do I want to be? Environmental
artists? A weapons artists? Hopefully this will come to me soon because we are
starting to create portfolios for interviews and I think it’s important to have
a bundle of work specific to what you want to do. This shows that you have
something in mind you want to do and your good at it. I guess this will be the
last time we have the freedom to do what projects we want and experiment with
different styles as that freedom will be gone as soon as you work for a
company, you will have to do exactly how they want it.
I hope to progress more and more and I can
already see my improvements, hopefully this will continue and I can go on to
make better work to make my portfolio stand out. I am ambitious I will be constantly
trying to improve myself and learn from my own mistakes.
