My Design Career

My Design Career

In high school I had no clue what I wanted to do as a profession and even when I was applying for university courses last year I still had no idea what subjects I would like and dislike. Although I have always been a design kind of person, there are so many things in the world which I would have liked to do before coming to university, but seeing as I wanted to get ahead in life I figured I mine as well start somewhere and ended up in Industrial Design at UNSW. 

At first I thought this course was unusually hard, however over time I realized that I have grown to like this course and am extremely passionate for it to continue. As I am more of a hands on type of guy, I was never really up for sitting around writing pages and pages of work that counts for nothing and that’s why this subject attracted me so much. The combination of the subjects, e.g. Studio, Materials Technology and Communication, is extremely interesting to me as it challenges my mind without me having to write pages and pages of essays and notes.  As I had taken design subjects all throughout school I had some idea of what was expected and even though this course is tough I felt that it is the right course for me as it is a challenge to be overcome.

 Over the last 3 years I have also had much experience in other ways my life could have gone. E.g. I have worked as a carpenter, plumber and as a manufacturer, however I have found that while the job can be interesting at times, most of the time it is boring. I want a job that I actually like doing, hopefully it wont be as repetitive as lugging bricks back and forth for a couple days at a time, but who knows. Another reason why I picked Industrial Design as my course is because I also love to travel and plan in my later years to move overseas, maybe to America in order to find one of the many design jobs they offer. Although I have always like to design furniture items after experiencing my first project on ‘hand tools’ I would not mind finding a job focusing on consumer products for everyday use.

After my Industrial Design course/career I had also thought about taking up teaching, as the one teacher I actually did like at school was my design and technology teacher and truth be told, it doesn’t seem that hard. Teaching in a way, would be good for me as I like talking and even though school children nowadays are out of control I wouldn’t mind working in a small school maybe somewhere out in the country.