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Careers That Interest Me

Career Cruising Through the website Career Cruising, I was able to take a matchmaker essentially based off of what I enjoyed or didn't necessarily like. After that to show some improved matching, I took an assessment over my set of skills that I believed I could do or not do so well. This gave me a grading from previous results on how much I matched up to them. The top 5 that were matched to me from the system are interior designer, graphic designer, animator, cartoonist, and artist. What are Each of these Careers? Let's begin with the the to one, interior designer, and their role is to design functional spaces indoors for homes and commercial buildings as well as making sure that they are comfortable. Graphic designers are to convey a company's or their own thoughts and ideas into a communicative form through things like logos, ads, and websites. Next, by definition, thins career makes or draws a series of images or drawing, then takes pictures of each one to c

Google SketchUp

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New Experiences, and Brighter Beginnings Learning and using Google SketchUp Google SketchUp is an application that I never knew had existed until recently when the class was assigned to make a house from scratch. At first I was anxious at the thought of starting an unfamiliar program and process, but quickly learned. To explain, Google SketchUp is a 3-Dimensional program that is fun to use and easy to learn, especially when you get the tool shortcuts down. Despite it's few limitations on angles, it lets the user create whatever they can imagine.  Starting Off After mastering quick transitions between the various tools, it was finally time to figure out what model worked best with what I believed I cold do. To look for inspiration, the website, www.houseplans.com, gave a search engine providing what was needed. It was time to start work on the actual project, and it started with a rectangle following dimensions located from the house plans found from the website. Usin