7 Jobs For Creative People: Escape That Awful 9-to-5 Pronto
Is your creative flair being wasted in a dead-boring office job? Looking to turn your passion into a full-time career?
Below we’ve listed 7 of the best creative jobs in Australia, that won’t leave you living off 2-minute noodles for the rest of your days.
Creative Career Paths
If you’re a creative, we’re sure you would have heard time and time again that your passion will not earn you a living. We’re told to choose between channelling our creativity or a stable income – most of us tend to choose the second, leaving our dream career behind as we move into a less than average 9-to-5 job that simply crushes our creativity.
Well, we’re here to tell you that that is simply not the case. You can combine both your creative passion and a career, you just need to choose the right industry area to do so. Below, we’ve compiled 7 creative career paths that allow you to really hone in on your creative nature, so read on if you’re keen to apply your artsy talents.
1. Interior Designer
Qualification: Interior Design Short Course
Interior Design Job Description
Interior Designers create beautiful interior spaces, by combining their knowledge of space requirements with their ability to decorate and enhance interiors. Interior Designers don’t just enhance homes, but also work to design industrial and commercial spaces, and even office and retail spaces.
What do Interior Designers Do?
- Consulting with clients
- Exploring and studying the operative, safety and visual requirements
- Preparing design concepts for interiors
- Creating drawings and diagrams to demonstrate design concepts
- Discussing design solutions with not only clients, but suppliers, management and tradespeople
- Choosing and recommending materials, furniture and products
- Overseeing and managing the construction of interiors
2. Beauty Therapist
Qualification: Beauty Therapy and Makeup Certificate
What is a Beauty Therapist: Job Description
Beauty Therapists are experts in hair, face, nail and body care, and perform consults and an assortment of treatments on their clients. Beauty Therapists can also recommend beauty products customised to their clients’ needs and can also specialise in specific beauty treatments such as microdermabrasion, laser hair removal, massage or makeup application.
What Do Beauty Therapists Do?
- Analyse a client’s skin, then treat conditions such as acne or dry skin with specifically formulated products
- Apply and sell make-up and other skincare products
- Conduct a variety of facial and skin treatments such as scrubs, peels, massage, waxing and laser treatments
- Eyelash and eyebrow treatments, including tinting, threading and eyelash extensions
- Acrylic and other nail treatments
3. Wedding Coordinator/Event Planner
Qualification: Wedding Planning Course
Event Planner Job Description
Event Coordinators are responsible for planning and managing services for a variety of events. Clients engage an Event Planner’s services to design and produce events for conferences, functions such as birthdays and weddings, industry events and general seminars within an agreed time frame.
What Does an Event Planner Do?
- Put reservations in place for the venue
- Organise the set-up of the room, along with finer details such as catering, decorations and entertainment
- Book crowd control and security if requested by the client
- May look after media outreach and marketing depending on the scope of the event
- For weddings, the Event Planner will design the program of the wedding, along with running the rehearsal and even coordinating the event
4. Graphic Designer
Qualification: Graphic Design Diploma
Graphic Design Job Description
Graphic Designers design visual concepts either by hand or by using software applications. They communicate these designs to inspire or inform their audience, via a variety of creative forms such as imagery or graphics.
What Do Graphic Designers Do?
- Meeting with clients to discuss the organisation’s objectives for the jobs, as well as if there are any notable requirements
- Providing an estimation on the time required to complete the job
- Arranging quotes for clients
- Creating design briefs for the client’s job that effectively capture the objective
- Thinking creatively to create unique concepts
- Developing drafts and sketches to show clients, then amending any issues until the client is happy with the product
5. Copywriter
Qualification: Marketing Certificate
Copywriter Job Description
Copywriters are responsible for creating copy that is generally focused around marketing, advertising and other descriptive content. This text can range from a creative focus, to more research-based and several other forms found in between.
What Do Copywriters Do?
- Liaising with clients or other team members (depending on if you are working in-house or as a freelancer), from the beginning of production to end, checking in regularly with progress
- Creating a clear brief from the client/business objective, to ensure that the work produced will achieve its goal
- Customise the content and style of writing, again depending on your brief and its purpose
- Ensuring your ‘voice’ and content captures the attention of your target audience
- Editing and proofreading
6. Photographer
Qualification: Diploma of Photography
Photographer Job Description
A photographer’s description is quite self-explanatory – they are an artist whose paintbrush is their camera. Photographers can work in just about any sub-industry, from weddings and christenings, to nature and landscapes, there are plenty of options no matter where your interests lie. Majority of photographers are self-employed.
Different Types of Photography
From weddings, people and places, to landscapes and nature, the possibilities are really endless with the photography industry.
What Does a Photographer Do?
- If freelance, you must market and advertise your services to attract potential clients
- Apply a variety of photographic techniques
- Set up equipment such as lighting and props
- Know how to effectively use photograph enhancing software
- Keep your portfolio up to date by regularly uploading fresh, original content
7. Social Media Manager
Qualification: Marketing Certificate
Social Media Manager Job Description
A Social Media Manager is in charge of assisting the progress of social media projects, such as communicating with customers, managing social media pages and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest.
What Does a Social Media Manager Do?
- Create a social media strategy, along with a step-by-step process on how to carry out this strategy and achieve the goals that have been put in place
- Create unique content and concepts that align with your client or businesses objectives
- Have a sound understanding of all social media platforms, including social management and scheduling platforms
- Approve any social media content, copy, tactics and other campaigns
Not convinced just yet? Enquire on a course for more information and start your creative journey today!