Week 9 - What can you do with your degree?

Graduates may have 2/3 jobs when they leave university to make sure they have a steady income in case they don't get any work for a long time, they have something to fall back on.

Transferrable skills we have gained

• Communication skills
• Using machines, technology
• Work to a brief
• Drawing skills
• Computer skills, photoshop, quarkxpress
• Creativity/Imagination
• Printing skills, printing press, digital printing
• People skills
• Collaborative working skills (working as a group)
• Time management to meet deadlines
• Punctuality
• How to be professional
• An eye for detail and design
• Self promotional skills
• Self motivation
• Wide interest in visual arts 
• Problem solving
• Visual culture
• Planning
• Organisation
• Trends

Career Opportunities - CCAD Website.

• Freelance illustrator or studio illustrator
• Book illustrator, including children’s books
• Fashion illustrator
• Greetings card illustrator/designer
• Illustration for magazines, editorials and advertising
• Illustration for products, eg. homeware, fashion accessories, stationery
• Working in publishing
• Printmaker
• Styling
• Project management and community arts
• Postgraduate study, eg. MA Illustration
• Postgraduate teaching qualifications
• Teaching and lecturing

I started researching post graduate courses 

• Communication design: Illustration MA
• PGCE- one year full time, two years part time. 
• School direct training programme 
• School centred initial teacher training (SCITT)
• Teach First
• MA Education following PGCE

After looking at these courses I decided to research teacher salaries as it would be helpful to try and become a teacher to make sure you have some regular income coming in. 

Teacher Salaries
Minimum of £21,804 (or £27,270 in inner London) The starting salary is higher compared to other graduate starting salaries. Leading practitioners can earn up to £64,677 in London and £57,520 outside London, Head teachers can earn between £42,803 and £113,303.