College student doesn't want a career...

[TheJagMan]

Understand you may need to SETTLE in the short term to reach your dream. My advice is to have a stable backup plan...If you can't get by, work a 40 hour work week from somewhere you can tolerate to have a steady paycheck and healthcare, but spend your nights and weekends doing your passion, what you love, graphic design. Hopefully you'll ultimately get enough jobs that you can quit your settled job and can do graphics.

[tpk-nyc]

Most freelancers work longer hours than full-time employees. It's not an easy life. If you want to "enjoy" yourself you'd be better off with a full-time job.

The hardest part of freelancing in getting the work and getting clients to pay. Actually doing the work is easy. It takes years of networking to build up a reliable client base and much or your time will be devoted to tedious tasks like bookkeeping.

[slackjaw]

You could always sell all your ****, grow some dreadlocks, and hang out in SE Asia for a year or two sweating at night under your fan, eating pad see ew from street vendors three times a day, and pretending you're more worldly while hanging out mainly in the hostel common area watching reruns of old American sitcoms on the TV in the corner and hitting on the two hot German chicks from room 3.

[pyrotech]

Originally Posted by slackjaw

You could always sell all your ****, grow some dreadlocks, and hang out in SE Asia for a year or two sweating at night under your fan, eating pad see ew from street vendors three times a day, and pretending you're more worldly while hanging out mainly in the hostel common area watching reruns of old American sitcoms on the TV in the corner and hitting on the two hot German chicks from room 3.

You mean there's no Ramen in SE Asia?!