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What are the pros and cons to interior design, And what can I do to achieve my goal of becoming an interior designer?

I am in 8th grand I've always loved decorating houses and rebuilding them and all of that stuff and I kind of thought it would be a good path for me to take when I'm older because it's something I enjoy and would love to do everyday.

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Hello Anon!

Interior Design has many aspects.

The most common Cons for Interior Design are:
- Stress
- Difficult or demanding clients
- Payment issues
- Hard to start as a new designer without connections/reputation at first
- Budgets can limit the ideas you can execute
- Overtime hours
- Repetition of tasks/routine.

The most common Benefits for Interior Design are:
- Salary & being lucrative
- Can express creativity
- Flexibility, in terms of hours and possibly location
- Growing demand = more job opportunities
- Collaboration & social interaction since you get to talk to clients & others in the industry.

You can learn more about the pros and cons of interior design through these articles:

- Vocational Training HQ | Pros and Cons of Being an Interior Designer | https://www.vocationaltraininghq.com/pros-and-cons-of-being-an-interior-designer/
- Indeed | What Are the Pros and Cons of Being an Interior Designer? | https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/pros-and-cons-of-being-interior-designer
- Houzz | Pros and Cons — From Real Pros | https://www.houzz.com/pro-learn/blog/startup-guide-interior-design-pros-cons-interior-design-profession

Also, you can check out these YouTube channels from Interior Design creators to learn more about the field:
- Drew from Lonefox | https://youtube.com/@lonefox
- Kristen McGowan | https://youtube.com/@KristenMcGowan
- House & Home | https://youtube.com/@houseandhome
- Three Birds Renovations | https://youtube.com/@Threebirdsrenovations
- Any video from Never Too Small. Here's a video about a self taught designer who built a ~500sqft apartment! | https://youtu.be/5pvNYrOUTtM
- Any video from Architectural Digest. https://youtube.com/@Archdigest

Enjoy learning more about interior design :)
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