If you can drive , blindfold him and drive him there . A little surprise date is always cute . <| sep |> I am freelance . Went to a shit forprofit school , got a degree . Applied at design companies , but didn ' t have exp , and my portfolio was weak , couldn ' t get a job . Worked a printshop floor for a year , learned the basics of web press printing , booklet creation , pretty much how to run all hardware necessary to do large scale production . Was gonna learn how to cut die but moved and had to quit . Worked at Jack in the box for 2 years . knew a guy , got a job with a music production company as stagehand , started doing their graphics , been doing that for 8 years , networked , got some gigs , now I ' ve got a few consistent clients . I ' ve done work that ' s been on television , radio , and worked on a Emmy winning show . I do have other abilities as well though . I can do video editing , I can run a camera , light animation , live sound , and studio mixingrecording . That has really helped me out . I have had a lot of hobbiesI would say that if you really like graphic design , learn web design and coding . That will help out quite a bit in the freelance world . Try branching out into Blender and making 3 d designs . I ' ve had to turn down a lot of jobs because I don ' t know anything about css or java , or how to build custom websites from scratch , and I ' m trying to learn Blender atm . You really need to figure out what TYPE of GD you want to get in to . Do you want to create ads , logo design , layout ? From there you need to dive into what other skills will be helpful , and learn as much of that as possible .