ani_sevag

<p>Thanks for all your support i really appreciate it. i feel better today about things. i think part of this transition of graduating is also realizing what my priorities are and understanding the gap that exists between the things i want and the things that i can actually have. hopefully that gap will decrease in size as time goes on.</p>

<p>I mean i have a general interest in the arts not limited to photography. In 10 years? i'd love to own some property with a couple of my friends and have an artist collective/live-in studio space in a small happenin town. Or i want to do something involving the community arts. I'm not THAT interested in being a commercial photographer myself. I don't really intend on being a commercial photographer although i wouldn't mind doing concert/event photography for a magazine or something. OR even assisting other established photographers. but ideally my interest lies in community arts, teaching photography to kids or running an art program somewhere. i wouldn't even mind working for a museum and helping them put shows together.<br>

my teachers and counselors did nothing really to prepare us for the job market to be honest. I remember asking a teacher what he did after college and he said "you know most of us knew that we would ned up working shit jobs to help us continue making art." I didn't go to the career development center, which i suppose i should've but i feel like they would tell me the same thing everyone else has. Intern somewhere and hope you get a paid gig.<br>

I left that school successfully never having taken a beginners digital photography course. each semester it would fill up. my last semester there the class filled up and i was shit out of luck. I have done some digital work, scanning negs and some color correcting and working even with raw files. but my knowledge is limited.<br>

when i say intern positions i mean they want you to know how to do everything and pay you absolutely nothing.<br>

and honestly i have little to no interest in going to grad school. not now at least. If i am gonna pay for another degree i wanna make damn sure i know what the hell it is i wanna do. I already sorta feel like i wasted my time at art school i'm not about to do that again.</p>

<p> I went to SUNY Purchase college and graduated with a degree in photography. most of my skills rely heavily on traditional dark room practices. I have some experience working with photographers, working both in a studio and on location.<br>

Essentially i don't know where to start. i've been looking for jobs to work with other artists, but they are all intern positions. I'm fresh out of college and have no idea where to start looking for jobs. can anyone give me some advice?</p>