I believed that there was more out there to study and that I just barely scratched the surface. I also realized that as a Commercial Artist I would be able to earn much more than what I was told.īut after those 4 years of learning the ins and outs of art and design, it didn’t satisfy my thirst. Graphic Design was exactly what I needed to perfect certain skills I wanted to learn. If I would have attended school a few years earlier, I couldn’t have learned about what it takes to design Posters, develop Logos or coming up with an original style of Typo, because those Graphic Design courses didn’t exist when I wanted to attend. Today I realize that if I would have gone to Art School when ‘I’ wanted to go, I would have been on a very different path than the one that I finally ended up on.įor 2 of the 4 years of Art School, I specialized in Graphic Design. A career path that you normally do in 3-5 years and sometimes it takes even longer to reach that level of expertise. I was able in 7 months to go from an ‘assistant’ to a ‘key assistant’ position and by the time I landed in L.A., Dreamworks hired me as a Character Lead in Clean-Up. That was not an easy choice to make, but the years I thought I lost in high school, I actually regained them later in life with my first job working for Steven Spielberg. Being unhappy and after failing several school years, because this subject was so far from my calling, my parents finally agreed to let me go to Art School.Īt the age of 19, after all of my friends and fellow students left to pursue their careers abroad in Colleges or Universities, I started again from scratch. Reluctantly I pursued a career in Biology. I became doubtful, even afraid to go after my dream, so I believed what I was told. No one will take you seriously if you pursue a career in art,… and so on.’ ‘You will be poor, you should go for a job that will pay you consistently. ‘You’ll never make enough money to sustain a comfortable life,’ I was told. Since I can remember my choice was very clear, I wanted to go to art school, but everyone around me tried to convince me that I need a ’REAL’ career. I often asked myself the same question and for the longest time I wondered if I made the right choices throughout my life or was it the fact that I unwillingly was pushed into a career direction that didn’t suit me. Do you wish you had waited to pursue your creative career or do you wish you had started sooner? We recently connected with Tanja Majerus and have shared our conversation below.
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