The First Five Years: Early Creative Career Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

99U: Getting started in your creative career is tough, so we're introducing a new column that will allow you to get the benefit of hindsight before you've actually gone through the experience. Welcome to "The First Five Years" where Mitch Goldstein, a professor of design at Rochester Institute of Technology, answers reader questions related to the unchartered waters of beginning a career.