by Laura Conaway

Eric takes the open mic:

[L]ast year around this time, I started to think about changing careers. One of the reason is that I've been at my current job for 8+ years and finally came to the realization that this was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to go into the graphic/web design field. After a few months, of researching and putting together my portfolio(I have the skills, but lack the real world experience), I finally started job hunting. I landed a few interviews but nothing happened. Then October hit and jobs just seized to exist.

 

So towards the end of the year, I decided that I would save up enough money to work part time at my current day job and do an internship for 3 - 6 months to gain work experience and hopefully move into a new career field. I was planning on starting this sometime in mid-April. Now though, a few friends of mine have cautioned against doing this since things are not looking up and the job market maybe worse in 6 months than it is now. I'm still debating about whether I should do an internship now or wait till next fall sometime.