cb designers future plans, discussion Options

[brooklyneast05]

let's talk about your past and future with graphic design.

what made you initially get into design? for those of you are pretty heavily into designing now, where do you plan to go with it? do you plan to pursue it in college(if you aren't already) or are you planning on doing something else? if you're planning on doing something else professionally, do you think you'll still continue to do design in the future anyway?

[JupiterShow]

Like lots of people I got into design through Neopets. I just wanted to be able to make my user profile pretty. After a while I grew bored of NeoPets so deleted my account but I thought it was a waste not using the (for want of a better word) skills I learnt somewhere else. I made rubbish website after rubbish website, my early ones were seriously awful. I remember my first layout had no CSS because I didn't know how it worked. I started taking it seriously about a year and a half ago when I started reading design blogs. When it became time to apply for college I had no idea what job I wanted so I decided to take Web Media since it was the only thing I was remotely interested in. As luck would have it in the past year I've become more and more interested in graphic design and would like to take a B.A Honours next year. What I'd really like to learn more about is Flash and typography.