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CREATIVE CAREERS
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Practical guidance, real community, and forward motion for emerging creatives and the people supporting them.
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Built alongside recent SCAD graduates navigating creative life after school.
With gratitude to: Elyse, Jill, Logan, Sarah, and Zandy
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A Practical Ecosystem For Creative Careers
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Next steps for creatives, and useful ways for their family and supporters to help.
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Cue for matriculating students provides career prompts that adapt to real school life.
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A community of creatives on the career journey supporting one another.
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Peer groups built for useful momentum DIY or professionally coached.
Creative careers aren’t straight ladders.
Five SCAD grads are building a better runway.
Fast Forward Collective will help emerging creatives build sustainable lives after school, and give their parents and supporters useful ways to help.
A nonprofit built from direct work with recent SCAD graduates navigating creative life after school.
Fast Forward Collective grew out of a pilot peer group with recent SCAD graduates and their supporters. Real creatives testing what truly helps during the uncertain transition from school to sustainable creative career.
Fast Forward Collective is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SCAD.
A steadier way forward for creative careers is coming.
What we're building.
Not another feed to keep up with. A working system for the time when creative talent becomes a sustainable creative life, and clear guidance for the people helping and cheering from the sidelines.
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For Emerging Creatives
The Creative Job Search Rhythm
A practical guide to choosing a sustainable weekly rhythm, prioritizing the next useful move, and building accountability that helps you return.
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For Parents & Supporters
What The Creative Job Search Really Is
A practical introduction to the nonlinear creative job search and the kinds of support that really help, without taking over.
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The complete digital library
Field Guides, workbooks, and practical systems for building a creative career, community, and forward momentum.
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Commons, Community, Quests
An online home for creative connection, shared resources, career quests, and opportunities to learn alongside others.
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DIY & Coached Peer Groups
Simple structures for forming a trusted peer group, running useful meetings, and maintaining momentum together.
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Cue, right when you need it
Adaptive text-based prompts that help you choose the next useful step—even when school, work, and life get busy.
