Freelancing and the future of creative jobs

  • "43 per cent of the current creative industries workforce is self-employed.
  • Self-employment is where the growth is.
  • 78 per cent of its businesses have fewer than five employees – so not small or medium-sized, but micro."

"1. The need to ‘make a job’ rather than apply for one

How many parents of graduates say that it’s really difficult for their children to find jobs? “Where,” they ask “are all the 1.8 million jobs in the creative industries?”
Unfortunately the jobs that everyone is looking for aren’t there. They’ll need to be made by the enterprising young freelancers that these young people will become when they have exhausted their capacity to apply for the jobs that are being advertised."


Knowing that there no jobs for us to apply after Mondays class with Adrian myself and Lisa reflected on the class and spoke of our strong points and skills, together we have a great contamination of skills that compliment each other so we have decided to start our own graphics business together, including filming, editing, motion graphics etc. 







 CBE, P. (2018). Freelancing and the future of creative jobs | Creative & Cultural Skills. [online] Ccskills.org.uk. Available at: https://ccskills.org.uk/supporters/blog/freelancing-and-the-future-of-creative-jobs [Accessed 7 May 2018].

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