Career profiles

Media, arts & entertainment

Account Executive

Juggling conflicting deadlines, budgets and priorities of Adland (as the advertising industry calls itself) is all in a day's work for Jane, an account executive.

Artist

Argentinean-born Julia is primarily a painter. To keep the cash trickling in, she also makes jewellery and works in an artists' cooperative one day a week.

Audio Engineer

Leigh works as an audio engineer in a recording studio. His work ranges from using audio software and hardware on a personal computer to using full-scale analogue and digital recording studio equipment.

Cartoonist

Andrew admits to sometimes giggling at work. "Creating cartoons is a fun thing to do and is really satisfying."

Circus Performer

Over the past eight years, Paul has travelled the world with an Australian street-performance theatre company.

Dancer

Currently a contemporary dancer, choreographer and teacher, Shaun is one of a rare breed of professional dancers in that he hadn't done any dancing until he got to university.

Editor

The large variety of research books on Bridget's shelf shows how well read an editor has to be.

Graphic Designer

Rachel has her own design business, after working full time and then freelancing - not an unusual career path for designers.

Hairdresser

Sue left school at 17 to start her apprenticeship and now, 23 years later, she's still passionate about hairdressing.

High-speed Photographer

Remember those slow motion pictures of what happens to crash test dummies in an accident? Carmine has the job of recording them.