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So I am really disppointed being a designer, I am hardly making $1K per month as a freelance graphic designer with more than 5 yeears of experience. Still I am unable to make a good income. What advice would you give ?

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[–] aegiszx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I get the comments about AI but people also misunderstand or overestimate many clients capacity to well, do any work, let alone do it well. I've run a digital product agency for close to 10 years now and initially we were 'hand code' every site, then eventually wordpress/webflow. Even though we explicitly map out and prep modules to show clients how to manage all this themselves, they're simply too busy or its over their head.

Also with all due respect to Indian designers, the education system there seems to teach them to copy and not create. Which may work for IT or positions where they simply need to memorize... hasnt worked out well for creative. I'd say 1/100 are absolutely great, 99 are well... not even good. Whereas school systems in Mexico or Thailand seem to be much more open to cultivating creativity in their population (I hire designers from both).