5 careers that are both creative and pay a bomb!

Is it funny when you’re personality is judged by the society on the basis of the career you undertake? It is all the more funnier when you tell them that you’re from a creative field because according to them it is only the doctors, engineers and the over-hyped MBA’s who mint big bucks. It is both sad and disappointing that creative careers aren’t given much importance and time and again being looked down upon, so much so that many even fail to acknowledge it as a ‘career’ and tag it as a ‘hobby’. However, here’s to breaking your myth and bursting your bubble, listed below are the 5 careers which are both creative and pay a bomb!

Video Game designer

One of the coolest jobs in the World. Enroll yourself in a game designing course or into the information design experience course, get your learnings and start out on being one super col gaming designer.  A video game designer contributes to the storyline, development of gameplay, game rules, characters and user interface. A video game designer usually starts off with around $38000 a year and with experience can move upto $96,400 a year.

Art Director

If you love getting hold of things, organising and planning then this job is for sure the one for you. An art director manages the design staff to execute a concept, also sets multimedia marketing strategies.They should have strong technical expertise and project management skills. An art director starts out with a pay of $40,000 and goes up to $94,500.

Animator

If you love sketching, doodling, cartoons and softwares, here’s a tailormade career for you. Complete a course in animation, develop all your technical skills, be up with Photoshop and Flash, build an interesting portfolio and you’re good to go. An animator usually creates cartoons by hand, motion captures animation in 2D or 3D. The average salary of an animator is around $50,400 a year and can go up to $80,600.

Graphic designers

Everything in the World is slowly becoming graphical and hence the demand. To become a graphic designer, you’ll have to do a full fledged course in communication design, should be willing to take up challenges, give long hours and build a crisp and out-of-box portfolio. These talented bunch creates graphics for various brands based on their identity, purpose and need using various softwares like InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. An average graphic designer gets up to $60,000 and can go upto $94,000.

Music composer

Not one that everyone is blessed with and thus this goes on to become one of the best paid creative jobs. If you’re gifted enough, your tunes can swoon someone’s heart and the moolah’s keep coming in. One needs to be fully educated with the various notes, musical instruments and the technical aspects that goes behind creating a musical or a song.  

While we go and enroll ourselves in one of these courses, you comment if there are any more careers that you’d like us to feature.