Design job sites?

See! I pay attention to details! Give me a job! Someone!

I'm actually going to stop taking the piss now as I am about to graduate from a graphic design degree this summer myself and although I've applied to do an MA if I'm unsuccessful I'm going to have to start whoring myself about, so this thread is actually very useful to me.

A question I'd like to ask is how many people here are freelance and how many have permanent jobs/contracts at companies? Also have any of you started your own companies with friends/classmates and made your own collective?

When I graduated I made handmade mailers and painted mugs and sent them out to agencies I wanted to work for, things that grab peoples attentions work far better than a PDF Folio... My first placement was a result of getting a bit tipsy at a folio crit night and actually growing some balls when a Creative director complimented my work and asking him when I should come in for work experience... I was in and out of the agency for around 3 months until I found fully paid work elsewhere... that was my "break".

Chris, if you can, go freelance. It's a good Market for freelance at the moment!

I would love to, but do not have previously mentioned "balls" for it... or contacts.

We had a work experience guy who just graduated from CSM - i made him cut letters out of paper with a pair of scissors, screw them up, flatten them out, then scan them in and re-trace them. all day long. for a month.

Thankfully when I was on placement I was just treated like any other junior, I did everything from the Friday beer run and building office furniture to produce routes for pitch work for Major label "pop" groups...