Acting If you want to spend every waking hour dashing from audition to audition, this is the career for you. No formal training is needed, but the number of thespians who spring straight into a successful professional career is very small. Most study acting, appear in low-budget and local productions, then begin the cycle again. Jobbing actors are always attending casting calls, digging out agents and getting reviewed. All are laborious, time-consuming tasks, more often than not ending in rejection rather than triumph.
Advertising Flogging a product successfully means combining creativity with a sharp business mind.
To make sure this process runs smoothly, you'll spend plenty of time in the office, the majority brainstorming and studying demographic research. It takes a disciplined person to handle both the creative end and the detail-oriented side. An outgoing, well-informed person with confidence and common sense is a typical advertising candidate. However, a degree in communications, graphic design, English, psychology or any medium of expression does not hurt in the competitive rush for advertising jobs. The skills you obtain in the advertising industry are transferable to any business-oriented setting.