Non-Medical Career

Art Director 

Duties and Responsibilities: Art directors are responsible for what advertisements look like. They are involved in creating a campaign that has an instant, positive impact on the consumer in order to promote the product or brand being advertised. Some tasks may include: working from a brief with a copywriter, working on designs to produce an effective advertising campaign, commissioning specialists to work on the project, managing and working within a budget, and editing the final results.


Salary: Around $83,000 per year.

Education: Most art directors have degrees from art schools, where they have studied graphic design, photography and drawing. Art directors also need to know various computer programs that allow them to work with everything from photographs to fonts.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to become one? Why or why not? 
-I think the whole idea of writing about a non-medical career of choice is to see what career you would be interested in, so yes I would love to become an Art Director. The only problem is that I am not as creative as i should be to be able to qualify for the job.

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