Both my daughters have essentially the same degree you have. Both are working in the animation industry and doing very well. They have peers who went to fancy 4-year schools who have $120,000 in student loan debt. My daughters have none.
Yep. Any debt I did have coming out of school was minimal and paid off within a year. And at the time I was in college, the universities weren’t as advanced as Austin Community College was. While they were still teaching fine art, I was learning computer aided design … Photoshop 1, PageMaker, this new (at the time) program called QuarkXPress, along with traditional paste-up, illustration, and 3D animation … from industry experts. I think once I got out and started working, I did one paste up job. The rest have been computer only. I’m now in video production and motion graphics.