This designer, Tracy, like me, has been around design her whole life. She is been in the field since she graduated from the University of Georgia 25 years ago. Her father had an architectural/engineering firm and she worked there after she graduated.
Her current job in the design field is in kitchen design and cabinet sales. Her favorite part about being a designer is getting to be creative and influencing people’s lives in a positive way through design.
Her least favorite is the lack of boundaries in the industry. Since you are in people’s homes and spend so much time with them, discussing their day to day living, the tend to feel like they can contact you at any time of the day or night.
Misconceptions she faces are that the general public confuses interior design and interior decorating quite frequently.
Her dream job would be to get to design yachts and airplanes, not many people get this opportunity and the budget would likely be high so the sky might quite literally be the limit for this job!
Her college education helped her with drawing basics and space planning. However, in college you often work on projects with imaginary clients with no budget. So when you get out into the real world you have to learn on your own how to deal with clients and their budgets.
Happy Designing, Tracy!
The Ins and Outs of Interior Design 