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New Year's Resolution #4: End Those Monday Morning Blues

By Amy Fanter
Learning & Life Columnist

Tired of doing the same thing day in, day out, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? There's no time like right now to consider a new career. And whether your passion runs towards residential planning, interior design, web design, animation, or even video game design, there's an online education program for you. Here are five programs that will get you on the road to an exciting new career.

Five Fast-Track Career Programs

1. Residential Planning: Residential planners make houses, apartments and other residential interiors more efficient and liveable. With a degree in residential planning you can become an AutoCad technician, kitchen or bath planner, a manufacturer's representative, or even a design consultant.

2. Interior Design: Interior designers use principles of design and color to develop the best room layout based on their client's taste, needs, and budget, all while keeping within the appropriate building codes. Interior designers also help both homeowners and business clients to select everything from window, wall, and floor treatments to appliances and other room décor.

3. Web Design: As the name implies, web designers worth with a wide variety of organizations and businesses designing content for the World Wide Web using HTML scripting, JavaScript, page editing software, animation, video, web graphics, and more.

4. Animation: By combining visual effects with action, animators bring illustrations as well as 2-D and 3-D objects to life. Animation program graduates work as computer special effects artists, video post-production artists, broadcast graphic artists, forensic artists and more.

5. Video Game Design: Do you like playing video games? Whether you have strong math, analytic, and computer skills, or simply a desire to master art and design skills, then you might have what it takes to become a video game designer. After completing a video game design program you can become anything from a game-play tester to a 3-D object-modeller to a character animator.

With so many great new career opportunities available, its not hard to imagine waking up every Monday excited about going to work! If you're ready for change, now could be the perfect time to consider a new career.

About the Author
Amy Fanter can be found working hard for her clients most mornings and playing with her daughter most afternoons.

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