There's more than university

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Although there will always be a place in society for university graduates, there's a growing market for jobs that require other forms of training. If you're an artist, you might want to be a graphic designer. Or if you're into non-traditional healing methods you might want to become a holistic massage therapist.

Kimberly Gautreau has taken advantage of a hidden job market for people who choose to practice holistic forms of therapy. It has involved a greater understanding of non-traditional medicine and homeotherapy practices from Asian and Indian cultures.

"What I do here is basically a holistic approach to aesthetics and to healing, aromatherapy massage, and holistic advice for people. I'm a certified aesthetician and I'm a registered aromatherapy massage therapist." Along with normal aesthetics, her job includes working with clients with depression, children with cancer, and pregnancy massage. Many of her clients are referred to her by medical professionals.

Since this sort of work is non-traditional, Kimberly had to create her own training by attending schools or workshops here and there, often outside of Moncton.

"I always laugh when people ask me that because after the last 30 years of doing this there's been so much training it's hard to narrow it down," she says. Kimberly graduated from Jon Raymond in 1984 and the Centre of International Holistic Studies in 1996, which gave her a massage background and aromatherapy. The Ontario-based centre offers courses in acupuncture, botanical medicine, energy psychology, nutrition, spiritual healing and vibrational medicine. Certain courses are offered online. Visit the website at http://cihs.ca/

Brent O'Hara is one of those young men who dreamt of being an artist - and it came true.

"I was an illustrator, that was my focus. That was the direction in which I was going." Right out of high school, he was doing freelance work, then he enrolled in a graphic design course at NBCC Woodstock. Since then he's managed to live his dream, first as a freelance artist and now as an employee in graphic design at Spielo. The quality of his work when in college has earned him the Collegiate Governor General's award for visual and media arts.

"What I'm doing, the various things that I've done in the last 20 years, was driven by a passion for illustration work. That led me to graphic design and also teaching. So I managed to get sort of a mixture of both." For those interested in graphic design he suggests to follow your passion.

"Because that's going to put you in a position of working on projects that you really want to be working on. Which means that you're going to be doing inspired work. And inspired creative work is going to be your best work, which is going to get attention to your work."

Moncton's Mckenzie College offers the opportunity for student to receive professional training as artists.

"When kids come directly from high school they'd generally go directly into the Arts Foundation Program," president Dale Ritchie explains. "It's a whole program on visual literacy, which gives them eight months to understand all aspects of drawing, painting, watercolours, oils, and working in different materials." Following this eight month training, students branch off into graphic design, game art design, or media programming. Most of the people who come to the graphic design program have a strong artistic and creative background.

"They studied art in high school or privately or they just love to draw. They all come from a creative background generally." Students shouldn't think a lack of computer skills is a problem.

"Some of them have computer skills, some of them not necessarily. It just depends because the Mac is so intuitive. It's very easy to pick up on if somebody doesn't really have the skills." Students graduating from the program usually find work ranging from $15 to $20 an hour.

"If you have a degree already, like we have a lot of students that have Fine Arts degrees or diplomas from the community college, you're going to start at a higher level generally. A lot of the students, a lot of graduates, especially moms who want freedom and flexibility will do freelancing and they'll start anywhere from $20 to $50 an hour."

For more info visit Brent's website at http://homepage.mac.com/brohara/ The Mckenzie College website is at www.mckenzie.edu.

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