What career path to take? Halp!

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I'm about to graduate, and I don't know what to do with my life. Well, not that dramatic , but I don't know what to focus on.
I'm a graphic designer, and I plan to continue working in the graphic design field, but I feel the need to do something more. I've done some paitings, not too much, and that is one path I'm interested. But I'm also interested in computer stuff, animation and 3d for example, and a little programming, which is completely different from the painting path. Also, illlustration is a path I'd love to explore more.

I've got a half-time job, so that plus school doesn't leave a lot of free time right now. And after graduating it'll hopefully be a full-time job, so I hope I'll have more free time (no more homework, yay!).

I like everything! That's the main problem

*bump*

first off, I'd learn how to spell "help". Could go a long way towards explaining why you're not getting jobs passing all those windows that don't say "halp wanted".

sorry. I just think of you as some empty-eyed snaggletooth chick, not a graphic designer.

I don't know how to answer your question.

...Sorry, I got nothing...

Make a list of what you're most interested in, pin it on the wall and throw a dart. Whatever it hits, that's what you do next.

Sorry to hear that computerlove. It sounds like you're busy with work. That's a tough question that you'll have to find out for yourself. I know what you mean by the word career, kind of like getting married to a job. You sound like you're real good in computers and art. I don't know, something along the lines of advertising? That's a hard one.

Hey get what you can. I don't know how old you are, but it can be tough going in the real world.

I know, I have to make a decision, even not making a decision is a decision...

Also, I'm old, that's another thing I tend to forget to take into account...

I'm thirty. Wait, no, I'm thirty-one! ... *sigh*

How old are you? I suck at guessing

I already have a career, worked a couple of years but I was very depressed, so I decided to study again, no regrets about that
But, lately the anxiety about what to do has been growing more and more, I've been freelancing/working almost half of my career, so working is not a concern, but what to focus on is.
Also, my mother (and to some extent my father), she thinks that I need a good job, one that gives status and all that sh*t which honestly I don't care...
Maybe it's because of the graduation and living on my own, alone?! Damn AS... I don't want to live alone, I don't want to die alone, but I fear AS will get in the way (of a relationship)...

I'm 108 years old.

<------ you might see it there.


Ha I think I'm in the same situtation, I'm kind of a software developer. I finished making my own software project I'll send you a pm if you are interested. Meeh just applied for a job to be a software tester, I really haven't got any motivation or drive anymore.

I'm not interested in a stressful job either. Couldn't care less about money. Not really sure what I want to do either.
Sort of learned about AS just now, not even sure if I have it more ADD but errr it can explain a lot.

Well sounds like you guys are doing better than me. I suck at everything. I know I'll die alone in a shelter and what is errr doing here again?

Does your university/college have a careers advisor? They might help.

You can take a career aptitude test, they have them at colleges/universities.

Try mixing them together, all your talents are to do with art and digital design. You could fuse them, and do things like illustrations that you can edit on photoshop using a computer, and a scanner... I'm wrong aren't I...