All right. So how do you get your first work as a UI designer? You've done the course and you're really keen  to get started, but how do you get work? Okay. There's kind of like two streams. If you are young  or, um, ready for a complete career change,  you're gonna ditch being a baker,  and now you're gonna become a UI designer.

Um, okay. Or you're young and you're a student  and you're looking to get into it. Is that right? That that direction is just starting  as a junior, um, UI designer? Okay. Find a job.

Any job, okay? Because it's really hard to get into. So just, uh, build a book, good portfolio, okay? Build, like, use the project we've made in this class, okay? And build out a couple of other projects on your own, okay. Or for friends or colleagues, and just get a job.

Take any pay, take anything. And know that after about a year,  you're gonna learn a crazy amount from wherever  you're working, okay? And know that whatever job you take, even if it's not the,  you know, the most fabulous job, it's gonna give you  that kind of experience that you need  for the second job, okay? Hopefully that job blooms into this amazingness,  but I found in my experience, everyone, their first job,  you get hired, you get treated a bit badly,  you don't have very good skills, and after, after a year  or two, you're actually starting to get pretty good. But the business never sees that person that way. They kind of treat them as the junior,  and the, the pay rates stay quite low,  and you get all the crappy jobs, okay?

So you do that for a little while,  and then you job jump, okay? It sucks, but it's the way to kind  of get ahead in web design is to find another agency,  show them, this is me now. Okay? I am two years more experienced. This is all the other stuff I've worked on. I've worked at an agency,  so you know the language a bit more,  and you get a better job that way.

That's, that's, that's one way to get started, okay? Is just to kind of, um, take any job in the industry, okay? And get, get going. But you'll need a  portfolio to get started, okay? So you'll need some projects that you've done, okay? Like this one on this course.

The other train is if you are,  say, a designer or, um, work in a kind of creative agency  already, or run your own stuff,  or just board with the design  that you're doing at the moment, okay? That is gonna be a little bit different, uh, different, um,  you're gonna have to just take on work on  the side, probably. You're probably gonna have to, you might be like me. Um, you know, if I change careers, now I'm 36,  I've got kids, there's, um, not a mortgage, I pay rent,  but, you know, there's, there's a responsibility. So what you are gonna have to do is burn them in out, or,  or give yourself a year or two  and say every, you know, not every night,  but I'm gonna use every Mondays, uh, Monday evenings,  Tuesday evenings, Wednesdays evenings  to work on a project, okay? And at the beginning can just be your portfolio,  get out the way real quick.

You are in portfolio is the worst one. Takes forever. But then take on any work you can. Okay? It might be friends or family, just to get  that portfolio going. Okay?

Then you can start working on other side projects. Once you've got your experience going,  you can start looking at stuff like, um,  there's things like Upwork, you sign up for that,  or, uh, freelancer.com or 99 designs,  although that it's not gonna give you like the  career breaking jump. Um, 'cause the pay is okay, um,  and it's kind of freelance stuff on the side,  but it's, it's building that portfolio for yourself  and building that experience so that, that when you do get  to a point, you're like, actually,  I'm pretty good at this now. I've done a few jobs. They're not paying huge amounts. They're just, that are like paid tuition.

Okay? You don't have time to go off  and do a year course, do these smaller jobs  for these smaller pays just to build out  and it's, yeah, it's paid, um, learning. And then once you get to a point where you're feeling like,  okay, I've taken my design skills from another area  and I've actually applied it here,  I'm confident I've got the language, then you can make more  of a jump into, you know, uh, for another job. Okay? So it might be that you start, start, you need  to start at a middleweight level, okay? You need to be earning 60 grand a year,  not starting at the bare minimum.

Okay? Um, so yeah, you jump into that sort of role  as a middleweight designer, okay? A web designer and, um,  maybe work and work your way up there. It's not a such a bigger hit on the family, or, yeah. Or it might be just you're building your business  out as a graphic designer. You're still doing freelance, but you're getting more  and more UI work.

That's my advice anyway. Okay. So, uh, yeah, that's, uh, yeah, that's my advice. All right, next video.