It ' s gone on the PC too <| sep |> I ' m currently not in the design field full time I still do some freelance as I got laid off at my last design gig . But probably the biggest thing I did to help me get the job was to make contacts . In college for GD I landed a job doing design work for the school paper , I only got that job because I had made friends with the lady who ran the production center where you get your stuff printed , etc for class . At the school paper I worked my ass off , won a bunch of awards at various contests the paper was entered into . Then our printer reached out looking for a designer so I applied . I probably only got the job because I knew the guy who ran the printing pressside of the newspaper my new boss knew my boss the school paper . I was then laid off earlier this year when our corporate office in TX decided to fire all the remote designers force all their newspapers to use their Design Center down in TX , no option to move was provided .