Occupation Poll

Also, about how many years of experience do you have doing graphics stuff? (as work or privately)

Ok I'll kick it off.

I've dabbled in web design since 1994 and graphics since 1995. In 1999 I got serious about both and started taking the occasional class as well as making some of my work public. Over the past two years I have gone commercial as a freelance web designer.

Im a kid im a professional slacker who makes wallpapers once a week on his old outdated computer =D

You're about the age I was when I first started.

I started doing graphics when I was 18 (1968), working for a publishing company doing book covers and illustrations for college textbooks plus layout and paste-up. In those days text was done by typesetters and display or headline fonts you drew with a pen. I started using computers to do some ad layout work in '89 and then started doing illustration too on the computer in about '94. Today I do mostly package design, product illustration and advertising. Been freelancing for the last two years...

I am a Dentist for living and my experience of doing graphics stuff, is only one year and some months , from 30 of May 2001, I am not very experienced in graphics yet

Started in Architecture in 1972.....still 'learning'...

Nikos....1.5 years!!! Wow, you sure have come a long way in a very short time!

God knows why I am walking on this earth

I am an accountant and have no background in graphics whatsoever. But I dodn't need to tell you that, did I?

I work as a Gaming Inspector in Casinos, have done for 25 years. I first opened my Photoshop program approximately 3 years ago.
/me is still a newbie really!!

Systems software engineer ( 21 yrs ) Only graphic experience is two years converting damaged pictures to digital and repairing, and about one year playing with dashboard skins. My sister got all of the artistic talent.

self-employed communictions tech.........that's the fancy version of phone man.
Never touched a computer until July of 98, stumbled upon skinz.org (the brown one) in September 98. Starting doing wallpapers, and having 50% or more rejected by _shoggot_ (actually he was too kind) Starting trying my hand at skinning after a year of torturing the shogster. Now I can't stop.......*help*

Interesting thread Paralegal by day (25+ years), computer geek and artist wanna-be by night. I created my first computer-based graphic approximately two and a half months ago. I'm hooked now

2.5 months! Wow, you've come a long way in a short time

Spent the last 25 years as a Jedi Knight. Pay is lousy but chicks really dig the sabre...

right now i'm a computer consultant at the university of michigan. not for long though.. it's a fantastic job, but the person i was temping for til summer decided to come back early.

i really see myself more connected to writing, playing guitar and non-digital art. those are what i'm really best at

Wolverines lost...sucky. My favorite team... Go Blue!

my first contact with PhotoShop was in November 1999, my first theme came one week later. Today I am proud to say that I am a professional graphic, GUI, web designer

I bet it surprises people that treetog is 'relatively' new in the new world of skinning, and yet an undesputed master of the craft..

Oh gawd....'indisputed'....that'll teach me to start typing before waking....

I spend my days 5:00am to 1:30pm working for Disney as a "Computer Artist" I spend the rest of the day 2:30pm to about 8:00pm doing GUI, Icon, and Sign design. I Would like to get some sleep one of these days.

Jafo...tsk tsk...it's undisputed....or indisputable....(BTW I had to check both Webster and Oxford to be sure)

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

Made my first LiteStep gig in about 98 or 99 (too far back to remember). Went on to make my first WB skin using only MS Paint and Notepad (UO Skin)... As much as I'd like to use Photoshop, I can't seem to break away from Image Composer, the cheesy little image proggy that shipped with FrontPage 98...

Peff...yer rite, of coarse....teach me to get complicated before the coffee's kicked in....