I think I need some advice please
So I’m knee-deep in my graphic design degree, and by knee-deep I mean, I graduate next semester. And I’ve been having some doubts. Well really I’ve been doubting for a while but I think it’s really starting to set in.
My problem is I don’t I enjoy this as much as I thought I would. Pretty much everything that’s hiring around me for internships or just regular jobs is a marketing kind of deal with logos and stuff and I do not enjoy doing logos. When I chose graphic design I wanted to do book covers and I can’t find anyone near me hiring for that. And I know obviously my very first graphic design job is not going to probably be what I want to do in the end. I just need my foot in the door somewhere.
Anyways, what I want out of a job is I wanna feel fulfilled, I don’t wanna be stuck behind a desk all day, and I want to feel like I’m making a difference. I really do not want to move away because my whole family is around here, and I want stability. Freelance stuff sounds really cool, but it’s just not for me I don’t think. It seems very unstable. And I feel like AI is such a prevalent thing nowadays, I mean it’s definitely cheaper than a graphic designer and if I was a business owner, I would probably pick the cheaper option honestly. And in my classes, my professors are telling me that I should just use AI, (I literally had a whole project where I wasn’t even allowed to design anything by myself. I had to prompt an AI). And it’s not just the AI that’s bothering me. I feel like I don’t enjoy this path as much as my classmates do. They’ve all got their shit together it feels like, well better than I do at least.
So I’ve been really considering going and doing something else, maybe medical related? Like dentistry or or maybe x-rays or something like that instead. Plus whenever I talk to my parents about it, they don’t have any idea what graphic designers do or how it works so they try their best with the advice but they don’t really get it and I’m super conflicted which does not help. My dad says I should try out fiver and try to sell my work, but I just can’t see that supporting me reliably.
So what do you guys think? As people who have been designing for a while I assume. Should I stick with it and just hope for the best? Or should I switch paths?