Nowadays designers are roughly divided into two types. One is a sales designer, and the other is a professional designer.
Sales designers mainly focus on negotiating orders. The requirements for professionalism are not high, but the requirements for comprehensive quality are high. If you are an experienced and eloquent person who understands marketing, you can be competent if you learn a little bit of design knowledge. It would be even better if you know a little more about Feng Shui. As long as the sales designer has good business and makes many orders, the returns will be considerable. For example, the master I talked to talked about a villa project with a base price of RMB 250,000 and main materials of RMB 1 million. These are all small pieces, and this type of designer mainly relies on rebates for the main materials. As far as I know, the rebate for floor tiles is the highest, the highest can reach 40 points, and the worst is 10 points. Others are generally around 10 points. For main materials worth 1 million, we will give you a 10-point rebate, which is also 100,000. In other words, if you have the ability to get the main materials of a villa, 100,000 is yours. (But I personally think that in today's Internet era, this channel-based transaction method will collapse in the near future, and this rebate will also be returned to consumers).
The second type is professional designers. Normally this type of designer would not choose to work in a private home improvement company. Most of them are work clothes (work clothes are the design and decoration of public areas, such as hotels, shopping malls, etc.). The construction structure of work clothes is not a bit more complicated than that of home decoration, and it involves many things, so the professional requirements are extremely high. If you have nothing to do, go get a certificate or something. The work nature of this type of designer is relatively stable, with a fixed income every month, but they often work overtime to catch up on drawings, and it is normal to stay up all night from time to time. Therefore, it is not recommended for women to choose this type of job. Professional type is simple to say and easy to understand literally. In addition to being professional, it is still professional.
The current situation is roughly like this, let’s boldly YY below. Will designers have good prospects in the future?
I personally think that the first type is at least not as good as it is now. The arrival of the Internet will break all channels, and the phenomenon of rebates will become less and less or the rebate points will become lower and lower.
I have a bold prediction that in the future, home decoration designers will not rely on decoration companies and will exist as free agents. For example, if everyone has an APP with a designer section, a workers section, and a materials section, they can just follow the above process one by one to decorate the house. For example, the designer will clearly mark the design fee per square meter at that time, and you can comment and score the completed design. This is true in every aspect. This environment is relatively fair, and many professional talents will also earn some extra money through this method. Over time, this industry will become more professional and transparent. This is roughly the benefit that the Internet has brought to our era. YY goes out to eat now!
Supplement: There is one thing I forgot to mention before. I would like to remind everyone here that if you want to be a serious designer, you will definitely not make much money in the early stage. One year of apprenticeship, two years of promotion, three years of career, and more than five years of career. 800 is considered a very good income during the apprenticeship stage. During the rising period, you can basically take care of yourself. Start making money during your career. So if you can’t persist, you can think about it again. If you want to make money but don’t want to invest in costs, where will the benefits come from?