-: Standard is pretty much graphic design.
A lotta people will get a web certificate
or do kind of a dual major.
It is possible, I think, to excel in this area
without a degree, but it will be very very challenging
and I think it takes a very unique,
driven person to do that without a degree.
I went back to school in my later years
and got the degree in graphic design
because that's what I was passionate about
and I knew I needed the structure to keep me on that path,
but again, there's many people, I think,
in this day and age that, with the internet,
you can literally learn how to almost do anything,
but it is nice, kinda, having that circle of mentors.
Not only teachers, but your peers in your classroom
to kinda keep you focused
and to keep challenging you
'cause you're not gonna ever get better
just being by yourself.
Majority of my time is spent in prolly Adobe InDesign,
but then I also go into Illustrator
and then sometimes Photoshop.
I would I prolly use Photoshop the least.
I do use Lightroom as well for processing
a lot of our photography,
but then, you know, we have other people in the office
that are in, like, Animate
or they're in other video programs.
It just depends on, kind of, what you are doing
at Savage Solutions.
A lotta times our company does support us
going to conferences.
And so, hearing speeches from other designers
and people that have been in that profession.
So, that's one way of, kinda, at least keeping up with
trend in the industry.
I, myself, am a constant Googler.
I think a lotta people are
and one thing leads to another and before you know it,
I'm watching a video on something that I wasn't even
originally Googling.
So, that's kind of my way.
I mean, I'd love to take more classes outside
of the work environment,
but sometimes that just proves to be a little challenging.
But there's so many resources,
whether it's online or going back to school
to just take one or two classes at night.