Thank you all so much for your advice. Your comments are invaluable to a student like myself who has little contacts within the field.
Bob, I don’t want to get an MLA because I have already been in school for 6 years and want to get into the field and start doing actual work. I am determined to succeed without one but why I feel like I should is because of the advice of my professors who obviously are biased, but also because people who hold positions similar to what I aspire to one day hold also have MLAs.
Your comments on the importance of AutoCAD skills is inspiring to me because I was in Mechanical Engineering for awhile and thus my Cad skills are very solid.
I don’t insist on being a standout graphics artist, because that is not what excites me most about the profession. I just see it as a way to get noticed and get my foot in the door so that I can than prove my other skills that are less easy to prove in an interview.
Stephen, your words, “I wouldn’t waste time on a MLA at this point in time. Experience with a firm will be time better spent.”
validates many hours spent on that difficult decision, and thank you for the book recomendations, I am especially excited to get Perspective Sketches.
