Is interior design a hard career?

While working as an interior designer is a very creative field, mastering the necessary technical skills can make it difficult to work as an interior designer. Designers often need to be adept at sketching, digital imaging, computer-aided design (CAD), and 3D modeling. When working as an interior designer, you can be very successful if you are willing to move up the ladder and keep working hard throughout your career. It is a profession that requires personal ingenuity, which is not easy to achieve, but it is worth the effort.

The most common path if you want to become an interior designer is to go to university or college and study interior design, some drafting, contract administration, project management, furniture, history of art and architecture and, most importantly, design. Some clients have strict deadlines and the amount of work required by designers requires more time. If you want to succeed at something, you have to have a motivating interest and driving force (whether tenacity or passion) and interior design is no different. Everyone who starts a business or changes their profession worries about something, but that doesn't stop them, and I've seen people who make their living selling things much rarer and little known than interior design services.

However, the Internet and the expansion of interior design as a profession have almost grown simultaneously, meaning that interiors as a profession have become more accessible, but it also means that the amount of confusing information on the Internet makes everyone go round in circles. I probably receive 1 to 3 inquiries a month from graduates or interior designers looking for work, most of them quite talented, who work in coffee shops or other industries, but who can't find employment in either the commercial or domestic side of my business. Working as an interior designer means that you'll meet all types of clients, each with their own personality and sense of style. Their friends and family tell them that it's too difficult or too risky, and they ask them why they would waste everything they've already achieved. As in any other profession, working as a kitchen designer, interior designer, etc.

There are a few key reasons why it's too difficult to become an interior designer in the traditional way, that is, to get a formal education at an institution and then apply for a job when you graduate. As founder of iii studio, Brinda has designed and executed more than 100 projects with a special focus on luxury residential design. If you are self-employed as an interior designer, from time to time you will encounter the “difficult client” who is annoying and has unreasonable expectations. In my opinion, this model would be much better suited to the interior design industry than getting a formal education, because the reality is that most of us learn in this industry through practical experience.

It can be stressful to dedicate yourself to an interior design company or to apply for interior design positions and promote your skills. Interior design schools (all over the world) focus on creating a meaningless portfolio that's supposed to demonstrate your ability.