Stasa Suboticki
Kontrast Design Studio
Belgrade, Serbia
"Push yourself and leave your comfort zone."
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Certification
Print and Graphic Design
IT Academy
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Web and Digital Interface Designers:
Certification: Print and Graphic Design
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Life & Career Milestones
My path in life has been direct
1.
Gained a high school diploma and realized that was not a job I prefer.
2.
Enrolled in a university for tourism and dropped out after one year.
3.
Worked in a couple of restaurants including our family restaurant.
4.
My brother working as a graphic designer was an inspiration for me to take up graphic design.
5.
Started a one-year graphic design course at the IT Academy and graduated.
6.
Worked as a freelance graphic designer for 4 years on platforms—such as 99designs and Upwork —on a wide range of projects in various industries.
7.
Decided to stop freelancing and get a full-time job.
8.
An opportunity appeared at the Kontrast design studio, where I work as a junior graphic designer on different projects including Roadtrip Nation.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Myself:
I'm too far behind everyone else.
How I responded:
When I was starting out in this field, I lacked self-confidence and felt like I was behind everyone else in terms of education and experience. I worked through that by pushing myself out of my comfort zone and focusing on accomplishing some goals to gain more self-confidence.
Experiences and challenges that shaped me
I struggle with social anxiety and would get a bad, uneasy feeling before any social interactions regarding work. I try to work through that by pushing myself out of my comfort zone in order to become more comfortable in those types of interactions.
I'm not a native English speaker, so I struggled at the beginning of my career to communicate because my jobs and projects were all English-based. Now that I've been in the field for a while, it's gotten easier.